User blog comment:EmpyrealInvective/So You Want to Write a Journal Entry Pasta?/@comment-26030957-20150704195452

So, I'm not the only one home on the Fourth of July staring at a computer screen. lol.

I'm so glad I came across this, for I am right in the middle of writing an epistolary piece. The confines of a journal can be hard to work with as a writer, as you state why would the narrator point out things he already knew or describe scenes in great detail. That is why I am writing from the perspective of one who wishes to leave a document to their trials and tribulations. I feel this gives me the excuse of describing past events in greater detail and explaining who the characters are.

You discussing how a narrator would not likely write out their death made me think of that scene in Monty Python's the Holy Grail where the writer wrote out, "Ughhh" as he died.

My story Nightingale was told through an interview, which I find much easier to inject information into, for the narrator is telling a story and the interviewer can also interject questions into the narrative. Beginning writers might find this form easier to work with.

You do a great service to the creepypasta community with these blogs, Emp. Thank you.

The great writer Mike Mac Dee wrote an excellent blog on epistolary fiction as well. If anyone cares to read it, here it is: []