I had the honour of being asked to contribute a story design post on another website. The guest post was published on Gillian Ramos’ weblog, “The Portrait of a Would-Be Artist as a Young Woman”.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 novel, The Secret Garden is one of my favourite classic novels. Like the garden to the Craven family, the basic plot elements of The Secret Garden are so deeply embedded in its history that a reader can identify the book just by looking at what the design communicates.
Story design incorporates both the physical aspects of a book’s design as well as the interpretative matter within a story’s plot. To jumpstart the series, the first story design post focuses on one of my favourite novels of all time: Yann Martel’s Life of Pi.