Diary Format Web Novels

Diary-format novels on Tellura are written as a sequence of dated entries from the protagonist's journal. Survival logs, captain's records, and personal diaries that the reader is reading over the narrator's shoulder. Pairs with first-person and unreliable-narrator.

The dated entry does something no other structure can: it puts a gap between events and the record, so the narrator writes knowing how the day ended. Survival logs use it for dread, personal journals for intimacy. Pairs with first-person by definition and unreliable-narrator by temptation.