Novel as blog: Roommate from Hell

Jill points out Roommate from Hell, a novel told as a blog, from Jim Munroe.

One could compare this with some preexisting novels repurposed as blogs, like this rereading of Joyce's Ulysses.  Or other long prose works, such as the Pepys diary blog or the Da Vinci notebooks reading.

Jill starts off the commentary:

It uses the project blog idea, which is rather like the basis of an epistolary novel: there has to be a reason why the narrator starts writing letters and a fictional audience to whom the letters are addressed. Here, the fictional audience merges with us, the real audience. An epistolary novel only ends when the letters end, and traditionally, they only end when the narrator or the fictional recipient dies, or of course, when the narrator marries the recipient, or one of the recipients.

It starts here.

Comments

[weirdo]

I like this idea. One could take it even further and make a blog that pretends to be a blognovel that is really a novel written across many websites that can be assembled in many ways. I suspect El Centro of being one such experiement.
I think American Book of the Dead is one too.
This may be the emergence of a whole new form of literature and storytelling which fits the medium of multiplemedia landscape much more than the traditional Gutenberg based scenario.
Just my 2 cents worth.

[Eugene Myers]

Weirdo,

Thanks for the plug. I think blogging may just become a new artform. It's a way to completely inhabit a character. Case in point, my name's not really Eugene.

[Andy]

From what I can tell the very first weblog novel was created back in 2002:

http://classof91.blogspot.com/

A daily serialzed novel about crazy high school shit circa the early 90s. Looks like it was completed in Oct. 03.

[weirdo]

And how could we forget gimmicky.org?

[weirdo]

And how could we forget gimmicky.org and Peepshow Stories?

[noveletta]

I don't think Poker Without Cards is one of those but you can never tell.