StoryADay May – Day 20 – Epistolary

Hello storytellers! We’re going to change course from yesterday, where our narrators told a story directly to the reader. Today our readers will need to put on their detective hats and piece the story together from a series of documents.

Day 20 Prompt: Write an epistolary–a story told through a collection of documents.

A series of letters is the classic example, but also think about diary entries, e-mails, texts, the case file of a detective, prosecutor, or lab technician, a call center log, you name it. This is great for telling a story from the points of view of more than one character.