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Email and the epistolary novel
Submitted by Natwwal on 30 October 2006 - 2:52pm.It occurs to me that email might lend itself to a different kind of story telling than written letters. Many traditional epistolary novels and non-fiction collections of letters contain only one side of a correspondance: they include letters that are written by one person, without including any of the other person's (or people's) letters. Email might be well suited to the opposite. If a story were based around a more realistic inbox than the one depicted in "Some Kind of Blue", it might be possible to tell a story solely through letters written to a given character. You would then might e


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