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[theweaselking]

It's really difficult to describe some of the cool things you can do with storytelling using modern devices.

There are always examples, though.

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[publius1.livejournal.com]

So that is epistolary fiction for the New Centory?

Very well done; it's a touch melodramatic, and I was going to ask you if this was "for real" ...but I had a chance to think about it while I was downstairs. I'm probably only about 25% of the way through the thing, but I fully expect Cthulhu to appear in the basement of that old house by the end.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

It's a nice example of it, even if I did have to look up what "epistolary" meant.

It's an interesting technique - even back in "Dracula", the dates and the headers told you as much as the letter itself, sometimes, providing you with a lot of context. In modern times, you've got a whole lot of extra methods *and* a lot of extra information available in the extra bits themselves - as well, you can run a much closer-to-realtime update. "Dracula"'s journal entries all required the writer to survive, calm down, site, and write - an answering machine message from a cell user does not.

"The Blair Witch Project" is another example of the way to let the conveniences of modern technology update this kind of storytelling, and I like it.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

Right -- me too. By the way, if you like Stephen Brust, his and Emma Bull's Freedom and Necessity is another nice example of an epistolary.

And don't feel bad that you didn't know what it meant. Leah (Anlon) had to clue me in on it.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Dictionary.com is my friend. I knew what it meant, I just didn't know that word was it.

It's one of those "There's a word for that?" moments.