What are the advantages of writing a story in diary form?
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Well, you can explore communicatively-i.e. you don’t need to remember to write like The Guardian or The Times-you can use your own euphanisms, colloqiualisms and slang as it is a personal expression. Also-you don’t have to worry about exposition, as it will be told in the first-person and mainly in the past and present tense-so normal plot rules needn’t apply. The large over-arcing story reveals itself as much or little as your protagonist wants to reveal it.
Finally, the only drawback is that it doesn’t lend itself to open dialolgue, so the character writing the diary will have to be really interesting solo-like a sense of humour, or foolish, or ridiculously romantic or spiteful – something to bite into for the reader to turn the page!
Hope this helped!
Shane
It brings a sense of day to day reality.
It helps the reader to connect with the main character and the book. I love books written in that way. A few recent ones I’ve read that are good are "Bridget Jones’ Diary" and its sequel by Helen Fielding, "I Capture the Castle" by Dodi Smith, and the trilogy about Josephine Bonaparte that starts with "The Secret Lives and Many Sorrows of Josephine B", which mixes diary entries and letters. If you’re wanting to write in that way, those books would be helpful to read. I love the form myself because it gets you into the day to day life and all the little (and big) important things that the character experiences. It makes it more real to you. And it may only give you the perspective of that one person, but that’s what you sometimes want.