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crystalsinwinter t1_j1e54oe wrote

I love it when creative writing styles are used. Here are some that I love in some books I have:

  1. One book series I have is completely written in America Online instant messages, America Online Instant Messenger, online emails, complete with the fully detailed dialogue boxes, options, etc.
  2. One book I have is written in a Blackberry and traditional book paragraph formatting.
  3. One book I have is written completely in Twitter tweets and Twitter direct messages, and in true Twitter colors.
  4. One book I have has three writing perspectives in it: One has an old-fashioned calligraphy type font to tell the story about characters in a book. The second writing perspective is the characters that live in the book play-acting the scenes in the book and having to act, dress, say the same things every time anyone reads that book. The third perspective is the main girl in the book who loves to read that book and then discovers the characters in the book are REAL and she can hear them and see them move around.
  5. One series I used to have has one half of the book being from the female's version of the same events and when you flip the books upside down, the other half is the same story but from a male's version.
  6. One series I have is very interesting. You read what the author writes and then every time the main person in one of the books has to make a decision, you get to decide. Go to page x to read on with the choice from x or go to page y if you chose the choice that's with y. I like to go back and read everything from both choices eventually just to see the author's creativity. :)
  7. One book I have has the story written on post cards, post-it notes, notebook paper.
  8. One series I have and another unrelated book both have traditional book paragraphs and Internet blog text boxes and settings.
  9. One book I have has one of the most intriguing writing forms I have ever seen. There are two girls in the book. One girl's thoughts are in run-on essays in all of her chapters. The other girl has very chopped up short thoughts in every line in all of her chapters. The chapters alternate in the book.
  10. One book by three authors, but while each author writes her own book, they are all tied in somehow to the first book but they are not a series. They are their own books in one book.

Edit: Hi, everyone. lol I have seen a bunch of fellow book lovers want the titles of these books. I have tons of books and some I don't right now know the information but I will share the many I "do" know the information for. Here are six.

  1. Tweet Heart by Elizabeth Rudnick is in Twitter tweets, blogs, Twitter direct messages, and emails..
  2. Men At Work is in the Harlequin Romance genre. I skip the sexy pages but everything else is amazing to read. It is a compilation of three books all in one book. Through The Roof by Karen Kendall is a romantic comedy about a man from Peru and his wife who is as they say "richer than God" in the USA and her charity to help underprivileged people using men from construction (because her husband is a construction worker) to pose for the calendar for charity. Taking His Measure by Cyndi Meyers is about the calendar photographer and a friend in construction who is redoing a house potentially for sale that happens to be the house she wants to buy, her dream house to call home before she realizes people, not places give her a home. Watching It Go Up by Colleen Collins is about the petite but punky blonde private investigator the wife in the first book hired to find her husband who wants to divorce his wife because he's too proud to ask her to give him more money to fund his construction business. The private investigator gets hired for another job surveilling an American Indian Skywalker (They are called Skywalkers because they are fearless.) but it turns out the crimes happening put her in danger the more she investigates and the target becomes her hero when the real killer shows up. :)
  3. What If... by Liz Ruckdeschel and Sara James is a series about choosing your destiny. You as the reader get to decide every time the characters have to make an important decision, what their next decision will be.
  4. I can't find the series I used to read where every individual book has its own author and every book was half from the girl's version and flipped upside down the other half was the guy's version. lol My dad had me donate my books back then because he thought I had too many books. lol
  5. TTFN series by Lauren Myracle is a series where every book is titled by an Internet popular letter message such as TTFN (Ta Ta For Now), L8R, G8R (Later, Gator), and more). Everything in the book is in America Online instant messages and conference messages. It in my opinion is a bit too intense for teens even though it's about teens. But maybe it's a good thing these issues are brought to light because they ARE happening to kids and teens.
  6. I am trying to find the book where every other chapter is continuous run-on essays of thoughts by one girl and every other chapter alternating is chopped up, tiny thoughts by the other girl who have the same boyfriend. I know I will find it when I'm not looking for it. lol The beauty of scavenger hunts.
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FenixDiyedas t1_j1ecz4q wrote

These sound awesome. What are the titles of all these books?

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BudgetStreet7 t1_j1eigdh wrote

The book Beaches, that eventually became a Barbra Streisand movie, was written as correspondence between the characters.

The 1980’s series of "choose your own adventure" books fits number six. I have some generic ones as well as a few that pair the reader up with Indiana Jones.

I also appreciated Jasper Fford's series of Thursday Next and Nursery Crimes. Thursday Next is a detective who lives in the real world and solves crimes in the world of books. In the first book, a notorious fictional criminal is hiding out inside of the novel Jane Eyre. Nursery Crimes is another detective series peopled with characters from nursery rhymes.

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FenixDiyedas t1_j1ep55l wrote

I remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books. Those were cool. There’s a board game version of them now.

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crystalsinwinter t1_j1hc723 wrote

The nursery crimes books sound cool! Thank you for this! :) It's nice finding fellow book lovers. :)

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zebrafish- t1_j1ek2wc wrote

I like this too — if you wouldn’t mind, I’d love the titles!

I’ll give you a few I’ve liked also:

Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher — from the perspective of a professor, told entirely in the form of letters of recommendation he has to write (for students applying to grad school, colleagues seeking promotions, etc)

Several People are Typing by Calvin Kasulke — absurdist satire where a guy’s consciousness is uploading into his company’s Slack workplace. Told entirely through Slack messages.

Yeats is Dead — a murder mystery written by 15 Irish writers. Each author did a different chapter.

Sounds like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehito Hindman — a memoir written mostly in second person

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FenixDiyedas t1_j1eczmd wrote

These sound awesome. What are the titles of all these books?

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xenizondich23 t1_j1fc6w6 wrote

You'd probably enjoy adding a book I once found: the entire thing was written in emoji. I don't recall any details about title or author, but the story started with a man getting up our of bed and making breakfast. It was intriguing how legible it was.

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crystalsinwinter t1_j1hgxgh wrote

Book From The Ground by Xu Bing. Does that sound familiar to you? According to the web site when I typed "book written in emojis", information and pictures about this book and its author came up, as well as info about various museums around different regions hat have his work.

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xenizondich23 t1_j1hv27t wrote

Yeah, actually! That looks very similar to what I remember. Great find!

Apparently the author has also written a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one can read. Which sounds counterproductive.

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crystalsinwinter t1_j1hc07v wrote

I would LOVE to get that book. :) I'll look for that book online. If I find it, I'll post about it in this awesome subreddit. :) I have to go look in my physical book library for some of the books I have that I described in the post, so I can edit the post for everyone. :) lol

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