Hello everyone. This is your classmate (or student, in one case) Anthony. As a warning, I'll say that I'm not putting anything particularly artistic in this post. The sole purpose is to test out blogging. For this is my first actual blog post! Woo hoo!
I've seen numerous blogs, and even follow a few. I also see a potential in them that I've only seen a few times. That potential is the use of the blog itself to tell a fictional story. I don't mean merely posting a story bit by bit or chapter by chapter in the blog, I mean more a story told through the blog entries of a fictional person.
I know what you're thinking. "An epistolary novel? Aren't those deader than disco?!" Perhaps. But this format strikes me as perfect.
Who wouldn't want to read a "zombie apocalypse" blog? Or the blog of a group of people stuck in a closed-room murder mystery? Or a "super-villain's sing-along" video blog? (Wait, that one already exists.)
What I mean is, it seems to me that this is an interesting twist on the normal way of writing fiction. I don't see any new genres coming from it. But I do see something that might be fun to write, and fun to read, too.
Well, that's my two cents. Test ended. Let's see how it turns out. See y'all on Tuesday.
P.S. Hey professor, if this kind of post isn't allowed, I'll happy delete it, or at minimum not make another post like this.
Sounds like you want to do an RP (Role Playing). It's fun but it takes a long time to do if you're collaborating with a bunch of people.
ReplyDeleteit could go "add a sentence" like where each person adds a sentence to an ever mutating story, I've got one going on facebook and it's hella funny
ReplyDeleteRP? Not at all. I mean, a collaborative story of this sort would definitely be interesting, though more ambitious than what I'm thinking of.
ReplyDeleteI just mean a blog "written" by a fictional character, with the story shown through the blog entries. Think the novel Dracula. Only a blog.
However, the collaborative type sounds interesting too. Using the closed-room mystery example, each of the authors chooses a character, one of whom chooses the killer. And they all post blogs as the situation escalates. Could be tense, but probably only with careful planning/organization, especially if the number of authors is large.
Ah, okay. That makes sense. I've seen a few zombie novels written what they call a "blog format" but I don't think it comes across as well. Starting one wouldn't be too bad. Maybe we can all start one?
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