Visual Note · Robinson Crusoe
The Island Is a Ledger
In Robinson Crusoe, survival becomes a system of accounting: labour, land, faith, and other people are all entered into the same book.
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Visual Notes
Short visual explorations of writing, narrative craft, literature, and storytelling.
Visual Note · scene craft
A Scene Is a Pressure System
A scene moves when desire meets resistance, and the pressure changes what each character can do next.
Visual Note · unreliable narration
An Unreliable Narrator Can Fail in Four Ways
Unreliable narration is not one kind of dishonesty: a narrator can misreport, misread, misjudge, or withhold.
Visual Note · Poe
Begin With the Effect You Want to Leave
A story becomes more coherent when its details are tested against the experience they are building towards.
Visual Note · revision
Good Sentence, Wrong Place
A beloved sentence can be beautifully written and still belong somewhere else.
Visual Note · Gothic fiction
The Gothic Setting Is Not Just Atmosphere
A Gothic place does more than look ominous: it limits movement, stores history, and pressures the people inside it.