An epistolary story is when someone uses other written media apart from narrative to tell the story. So for instance, Bram Stoker's Dracula is epistolary; it uses journal entries, newspaper clippings, and letters, but never goes into straight narrative outside of them. It's a really good way to get different sides of the same story without getting monotonous, and really is a kink of mine.
Re: China/World- Circumnavigating the Globe
An epistolary story is when someone uses other written media apart from narrative to tell the story. So for instance, Bram Stoker's Dracula is epistolary; it uses journal entries, newspaper clippings, and letters, but never goes into straight narrative outside of them. It's a really good way to get different sides of the same story without getting monotonous, and really is a kink of mine.