[stylist] Writing a Story in the Form of Emails and Texts

[Vejas Vasiliauskas]

Thanks all for the advice on this.
I am sticking to no time stamps, but if the friends are texting 
about an event and then several hours later, I will probably put 
"Later" to show it's over.
Ed, I thought the one book you talked about about salmon fishing 
in the Yemen River sounded interesting.  I downloaded it and will 
see if I like it.
So far don't know of any novels that are written in text format.  
The only complete Internet ones that I know of are the Internet 
girls series by Lauren Myracle, in which most everything is done 
by instant-messaging.
Vejas


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But with any creative writing, if any word, sentence, 
description,
character, information, etc does not drive the plot forward, 
serve a purpose
in any way, cut it.  Including a time stamp for this style would 
serve no
purpose and just be fluff not necessary to plot or 
characterization.  Unless
a time or date truly served a purpose, it would not need to be 
included.  You
do need to know who the speaker is, or in this case, whom the 
email is from,
but if only between two people, it would not be necessary to 
include the to
email.

Bridgit

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I think the email from and to, belong in there with the time.
It does get a bit tedious for audio book reading but visually and 
braille
you can just skip that part.  Ask on google see what they say but 
I say it
keeps the fantasy going.

A

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Subject: [stylist] Writing a Story in the Form of Emails and 
Texts

Hi All,
Awhile back, I had posted a fragment of a story in second person.
I wanted to try this format.
I have decided to forgo this format, but keep with this story 
idea.  The
main premise of it is that there are 2 friends, Emma and Kelly, 
who have
attended the same training center, but are at different points of 
their
lives emotionally.  One graduates first and they still stay in 
touch via
texts, but I might start creating emails because you can't really 
tell a
full story in a text.  (Well you can, but the other person would 
get bored).
So I was wondering your thoughts on a couple of things:
Do you recommend I use time stamps for all the texts, or does it 
not matter?
Sometimes when the other person is busy it takes them a little 
while to
respond.
For the emails, do you think I should always put each person's 
email adress
at the top for the "from" and "to" field?
Thank you for your thoughts.
Vejas

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