Comment Re:It bears a passing resemblance to . . . (Score 1) 202
I agree.
Isn't a blog just an online version of your standard paper diary? Writing a novel as if it were a diary, or even turning a diary into a novel, isn't exactly new. (The first example to come to mind is Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl)
I don't see where the author is breaking new ground, except possibly that we get to see the work in progress, rather than as a finished piece? Certainly stories have been published piecemeal before (esp in magazines and the like), though I have not personally seen any serial stories written in diary-entry style.
As a side note, there are many cases of people who make blogs for ficticious people, which seems to be an analogous style of work.
Just my $0.02
-Leliel
Isn't a blog just an online version of your standard paper diary? Writing a novel as if it were a diary, or even turning a diary into a novel, isn't exactly new. (The first example to come to mind is Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl)
I don't see where the author is breaking new ground, except possibly that we get to see the work in progress, rather than as a finished piece? Certainly stories have been published piecemeal before (esp in magazines and the like), though I have not personally seen any serial stories written in diary-entry style.
As a side note, there are many cases of people who make blogs for ficticious people, which seems to be an analogous style of work.
Just my $0.02
-Leliel
