Like any sensible hero, when the first call to adventure came–in the form of a request for submissions to the Learning Track of Opensim’s Community Conference–I passed it by. When the deadline was extended and the call to explore fiction’s future came a second time, I had to answer. If you’re going to try something…
The outtakes in pictures… When the authors at the Greyville Writer’s Colony get quiet, when you repeatedly drop by and can’t find anyone writing in the cafe, something is up . That riderless flying carpet whizzing past your head is standard fare. Empty streets and the author’s cafe empty every day and night isn’t. Even…
For some readers, leaning back and reading a book isn’t enough. We need to lean forward, stir things up, take action. The popularity of fan fiction speaks to a reader’s love for directing where characters will go. Until recently, stories a romance reader could control were rarer than orange trees in Alaska. Used to…
I was going to write a post about different tools for creating interactive stories today but the Hypergrid Story project is getting so much press and it only runs for another week so let’s talk about that. What is a hypergrid story? A hypergrid story is very much like a hypertext story, only instead of…
Read an e-book week is like Writer’s New Year for me. I take stock of the old and map a path to the new.
I always talk about one day being able to step inside the pages of a book and become a part of the story. Today I did it. This is a preview of the Hypergrid Stories project I am working on with some of the authors here at Tea and Strumpets and members of the Greyville…
