However, Smyrna is north of Fenwick Island, and Smyrna's residents sympathized more with the Union. Fenwick Island, Bayville, and other more southerly towns in Delaware leaned toward the Confederacy. I had to remember always that the newspaper I was studying was biased in a way different from the people I was writing about. I love telling a story in journal format. I've employed this technique before and no doubt will do so again.
Readers gain uncensored access to all the subtle ways of the protagonist's character.
So much information can be conveyed so quickly, so cleanly. I truly love working that way. Here's a secret though. There is a BIG difference between diary and journal. When I wrote the first version of A Light In The Storm, I wrote it as journal.