Writing to share thoughts in a digestible and hopefully entertaining form.
2 Jul 2026 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Hi everyone! A while back I wrote a short story about a crew of Dutch sailors who had to put in at a tropical island after a cannonball punched a hole in their hull. They gathered timber there and repaired the ship. They were Dutch because, during a...
3 Jun 2026 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Hello everyone! Finally finished this video. Or rather, finished it in its current form. Uploaded it to YouTube and immediately got criticism from my son. Why are the first 15 seconds spent showing Archy arriving in Old Town and parking the car? Well...
28 May 2026 3 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Hello everyone, A literary short story contest on the theme “Instruction” has just concluded, and below I’d like to share my story. It was originally conceived as a story about the meaning of life — as a kind of instruction manual that no one ever ha...
24 May 2026 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Hello everyone! I’d like to share an audio narration of my story and explain why, in some cases, I make a narration instead of a film. Some stories, like this one, simply aren’t very cinematic. There aren’t many moving parts. The process...
26 Apr 2026 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Hi everyone, Well… this was quite a challenge. Obstacles at every step. It started with a slightly provocative storyline, which the generators kept flagging as violating their rules. I had to switch to a more indirect, almost Aesopian way of tell...
30 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Recently I came across this video. It’s a voiceover story about Frank Sinatra. 140,000 views in one month. About 17 minutes long. What’s the story about? There’s a small Italian restaurant in New York that Sinatra used to visit—to feel like an ord...
23 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
I’ve already shared some thoughts on working with video generators and the difficulty of controlling their output through prompts. Even when you feed the generator the exact dialogue, characters often overact, introducing unwanted emotion and unneces...
18 Mar 2026 8 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Ann didn’t know why she had agreed to this meeting.Perhaps she simply wanted to see Laura — and calm the quiet anxiety inside her, if only a little. They hadn’t seen each other for years, but Ann remembered that when Laura was around, she always felt...
7 Mar 2026 4 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Looking back at the response to my previous articlehttps://www.publish0x.com/short-stories/how-i-built-a-short-animated-film-using-free-ai-tools-withou-xjydngqI suspect readers were not interested in the film itself as much as in the process behind i...
24 Feb 2026 2 minute read 0 comments mgaft1
Hi there, I’d like to share some practical impressions from working on animation and voice-over for short stories. In my earlier videos I relied on static images and was only starting to experiment with multiple voices. This video runs a little over...
