ZGZac Gibson
evidence atlas

STORIES / WRITING

Keep the page human.

Novels, field notes, writing tools, and music. Stories and the systems behind them.

Work in progress · field notes · music

CHAPTER 07 / NOVEL · PHYSICAL WORLD

in-flight

WESTFALL

Conscience Costs Everything.

Grounded in real-world research, WESTFALL follows a former ISA operator who uncovers a private program inside Brellford National Group. As the secret surfaces, the fictional defense contractor turns on itself—forcing loyalty, betrayal, control, and free will into one fight for survival.

Open WESTFALL casefile
Open WESTFALL novel spread: a Brellford perimeter-route map beside the Part IV title page, ‘Brellford—Conscience costs everything.’
WESTFALL hardcover by Zac Gibson: a black spine and cream-and-red cover, with a beanie-wearing figure and a winter waterside scene.

AUTHORSHIP / 01

A system can catch a contradiction. It cannot decide what the story means.

JotterDown and Canonweave are designed to track facts and show what a change affects. The author decides what becomes part of the story.

Catch
Find the fact and the pages it touches.
Connect
Show relationships without inventing canon.
Decide
The author accepts, rejects, or rewrites.

03Field notes

Notes on shipping and making.

Short notes on decisions, bugs, and lessons from building.

  1. Deterministic by default

    Why a portfolio builder can be stronger when it does not call a model at runtime.

  2. Check the element before you blame the codec

    A hidden video element can look exactly like a decoder problem when the layout is the actual failure.

Story surfaces

Writing systemJotterDown

Continuity behind the manuscript.

NovelWESTFALL

Conscience costs everything.

SoundMusic

AI-assisted soundtrack experiments beside the writing.

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