![]() The "diary entry" format is not very immersive. But in a diary format, you can write "Bob is having an affair with Sally", and it's understood that this is what the hero thinks, which may or may not be reality. Oh, there are plenty of ways around this, but sometimes it gets awkward. But if you write, "Amy thought that Bob was having an affair with Sally", that pretty much gives away that it's a mistake. That is, if in a narrative style you said, "Bob was having an affair with Sally", and then later you say that in fact this never happened, that that was all just a mistaken idea that one of the characters had, the reader rightly feels lied to: You told him it was so and then later you told him it was not. But in a diary, it's expected.Īnother advantage that occurs to me: You can lie. In a conventional narrative, this would look odd. There's lots of description that goes into the action of a story that would just seem very unlikely in a diary.īig advantage: Very conducive to detailed discussion of the hero's thoughts and feelings. He saw Sally on the left and me sitting at the desk. " But would anyway really write in a diary, "Bill entered the room. Yes, someone might write in a diary, "And then Bill said. ![]() One big disadvantage is that you can't give too much blow-by-blow of events or you break the format.
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