Epistolary Novel
April 1st 2008 18:07
According to Wikipedia, an epistolary novel is a novel told through a series of documents. These documents are usually letters but other documents such as newspaper articles and journal entries, and more recently emails and blog entries are also used.
Whenever I come across this literary term, I immediately think of The Color Purple, Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Boy Next Door. It is a powerful way to tell a story as a writer can give a lot of information that the main character does not necessarily know, but which gives a new dimension to the story.
I have always wanted to try telling a story through letters and/or emails, but until I found out this month's theme for NaBloPoMo, I had no idea that this was the perfect way to tell part three of my novel.
Strictly speaking I won't have written an epistolary novel by the time I've finished part three. It will be an approximately one third epistolary novel
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Whenever I come across this literary term, I immediately think of The Color Purple, Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Boy Next Door. It is a powerful way to tell a story as a writer can give a lot of information that the main character does not necessarily know, but which gives a new dimension to the story.
I have always wanted to try telling a story through letters and/or emails, but until I found out this month's theme for NaBloPoMo, I had no idea that this was the perfect way to tell part three of my novel.
Strictly speaking I won't have written an epistolary novel by the time I've finished part three. It will be an approximately one third epistolary novel
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