link: Huh, hyperfiction
This is a very interesting post by Elizabeth Bear about the hyperfiction project that she (and a whole passel of other people) have been working on for the last three years:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/the-future-of-web-publishing-p.html
Reading through this, it made my mind light up a little bit about what, exactly, Ritual is. In a lot of ways, it can be understood as a non-linear narrative (or at least, it was presented in a non-linear fashion) though it actually has a chronological path, with which the Ritual Reader's Guide is designed to help. Also, comments, and my responses to comments, have been an essential part of the process and body of the stories themselves.
On the other hand it's really not hyperfiction - there aren't a whole lot of explanatory links within the stories, and there are small arcs contained within, but the whole thing is a single story that takes a lot of side roads just by its very nature. I've been interested in creating hyperfiction since I first understood the capabilities of HTML, but back when I had the fire and energy and gumption to do it, nobody was particularly interested in such things, and I also had regular ol' paper novels to write (and a sucky day job to do).
Thoughts?
On anything? :)
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/the-future-of-web-publishing-p.html
Reading through this, it made my mind light up a little bit about what, exactly, Ritual is. In a lot of ways, it can be understood as a non-linear narrative (or at least, it was presented in a non-linear fashion) though it actually has a chronological path, with which the Ritual Reader's Guide is designed to help. Also, comments, and my responses to comments, have been an essential part of the process and body of the stories themselves.
On the other hand it's really not hyperfiction - there aren't a whole lot of explanatory links within the stories, and there are small arcs contained within, but the whole thing is a single story that takes a lot of side roads just by its very nature. I've been interested in creating hyperfiction since I first understood the capabilities of HTML, but back when I had the fire and energy and gumption to do it, nobody was particularly interested in such things, and I also had regular ol' paper novels to write (and a sucky day job to do).
Thoughts?
On anything? :)