You've used an interesting method to write this one. At the very least, =
you ought to be commended for your efforts. Out of all the fiction I've =
read, I can recall only a few documentation-style stories.
There seems to be a pattern to them. They all use the same type of =
documents. That is, if the story uses letters, it uses letters to tell =
the story. Or, if it uses news articles, it uses news articles all the =
way (One of my favourites of this type of stories happens to use news =
articles. Really wish I could find it again) They don't change format, =
such as going from news to personal journals.
Bram Stoker's _Dracula_ was told through a mixture of journals,
letters, telegrams and newspaper stories. Epistolary novels -- where the
storyline unfolds in the text of letters -- were a fairly popular in the
nineteenth century; _Frankenstein_ is another example.
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"I will chide no breather in the world but myself, _____
against whom I know most faults." - As You Like It |_____|_____
Act 3, Scene 2 _____| |
Julian Fong:
fong_jh@sunset.bph.jhu.edu