"Stop!" I cried to my god-like brain.

[bobquasit]

I just had a kind of insane idea.

Since I'm kind of stalled on fiction, why not try writing a story in the form of a journal by a fictitious character?

Maybe that would be a way to break the creative logjam in my mind. Has anyone tried that?

Comments

Hahahaha!

[scarletdemon.livejournal.com]

http://scarletdemon.livejournal.com/33435.html

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Certainly, it's a style that has been done a number of times in professional literature (ex: Dracula).

I've done it for roleplaying characters too, to help me remember what was going on and have a better idea of the voice of the character being portrayed (when I've had a deeper game to play in).

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Well, actually it's been done rather a lot. The Lost Experience online "game" promoting the ABC show "Lost" had a blog for the fictional Rachel Blake character. The character of Lindsfarne in the comic Kevin and Kell has a blog. And a character played by epimetheus in one of my GURPS campaigns had a online journal, actually way before the two others I note.

Which of course doesn't make it a bad idea, just not a novel or unique one. :)

[moonlitmagik.livejournal.com]

great idea