a blog novel

[dragonlady7]

I don't know if anyone's ever written a blog novel. I think I might do it. I've been wanting to do something for a while. I think that would work. A humorous novel in serial installments, based on my shitty first job. You know the novel-writing convention of epistolary novels? Or journal-like novels like Bridget Jones' Diary-- I should probably read that. Or the Adrian Mole Diaries. I'd be astonished if nobody'd tried this yet. I should look it up.

A google search reveals that there is, indeed, a blog novel in progress somewhere, but it's... bizarre. Not what I'm thinking of at all. So, here we are, at the beginning of a plan. Perhaps I'll actually do it. Perhaps I won't.

The question is, do I write it live-- compose it in episodes and post it to wherever its online home ends up, with live comments enabled and the like, or do I compose it offline and post it as a completed work? Or do I compose it entirely, and have Dave help me write some kind of chron software to post it at the intervals in which it should be posted? Or do I falsify the dates and post it as a mock-up of a blog? It could be a dummy page with comments only written by me as various characters, or no comments at all.
I don't know. I also don't know how hard to apply the fictionalizing filter. But I do think it'd be a phatty idea.
:D

Comments

[eggplantia5.livejournal.com]

http://www.blogathon.org/hllist.php

scroll down to writing.
maybe that will give you some ideas?

this is from kat

[(Anonymous)]

totally post it day-by-day (or whatever the time frame is). But I expect you could use a lot of what youve posted on livejournal to fill the first half of the book, with a little editing. :)
You should have one of your characters commentating by your mom...that'd be funny.

this is from kat

[(Anonymous)]

er...BE your mom, I meant to write. Damn, I'm worse than your boss.

[catntonic.livejournal.com]

There are two recent Korean films that started out as internet journals. I managed to find a news article on one of them, My Tutor Friend (http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200302/27/200302270122191539900091009101.html). The other is My Sassy Girl (http://www.mediacircus.net/mysassygirl.html).

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find any links to the original journals, only these news articles. But I guess even if I did find the originals, they'd be in Korean.