230-odd years before Emo, there was only... Werther

[omarius]

So, there's a fad on of people posting epistolory novels to Livejournal, and the thought ocurred to me, "I'll do Werther!" (which I read this summer--my Dad nabs me books he thinks I'd like at the library sales).  So I do a Google search to see if it's been done

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[mme_moonpie]

Aaaaaawhhhhhhhh! Omar! You see, THIS is why I love you!
I was going to do "The Daughters of Freya" (see emailmystery.com), but you found one better (in the heirarchy, free beats cold and good)
*smooches*
MP

[omarius]

Glad it's brightened your day, Madame. :)

[mme_moonpie]

Well, not to damn you with faint praise, but today DID start out with a literal pile of steaming cat shit.

I am dum

[editgrrl]

Ok, I swear I looked up epistolory novels, but what exactly are you doing? Do you web-illustrate or send out sections at a time of the novel? I am fascinated by this whole idea. (except for the part where I feel like I'm back in the TSC web theory class, but that was still interesting in a scary way, heh)

Re: I am dum

[omarius]

I'm not doing anything, as it's already been done better.

BUT this Wether thing will send you one epistle a day from the novel The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe if you sign up.

Others have been posting epistolory novels to livejournal for fun: there's lesliaisons1782 and dracula1897, for example.

[omarius]

I read it over the summer, so I'm not doing it. But I still think it's a sweet, sweet idea. They've got the German version available too if you sprachen it (I sure don't).