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
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I haven't read the article yet, but my first thoughts are that a hyperfiction could do one of 3 things: choose your own adventure (branching plot), explanatory footnotes (not limited to bottom of page anymore!), and inserts (maps, videos, pictures, basically extra stuff thrown in). All have paper analogs (except videos, I guess). I'd be interested in seeing if there's anything you can do with it that doesn't have a paper analog; maybe I'll find that out when I read the article!
Collaboration strikes me as the most interesting things you can do with the internet in a fiction piece, be it conversations between readers and authors in comments, or a group writing project, etc. But that's kind of different from saying, hey, what new kind of thing can I the Author do with this internet stuff with this thing I'm writing?
PS, Evangelion!!! I have all of it, albeit in kind of shitty format, if you want.
I find the idea incredibly cool but also like it has the potential to get bogged down in its own complexity and get overly technical. Which could be boring (to me
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No, that's fantastic, and I am largely with you in terms of what I want from my consumable creative efforts - though sometimes, especially in the spark of newness, immersion as total as possible is kind of great and can drive a sense of interactivity. There's only so far that it can go, though.
The way you have Ritual set up seems like a good in-between, but having reader feedback at every little point, continuously - hm. Don't you feel like that could eventually result in the fiction becoming basically a 'product' responding mechanically to what the readers want?Yes, absolutely - unless the writer has a real iron control over exactly the way they want it to go. I was responsive to feedback on my stories, and sometimes did things by request - but only if it was also something that I was interested in exploring (and able to: yeah, still no Mylar. Fail). It's a double-edged sword, speaking from a creator's perspective; after a time that kind of feedback becomes (or feels) essential, and without it, it's harder to create. I'm
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Collaboration strikes me as the most interesting things you can do with the internet in a fiction piece, be it conversations between readers and authors in comments, or a group writing project, etc. But that's kind of different from saying, hey, what new kind of thing can I the Author do with this internet stuff with this thing I'm writing?
PS, Evangelion!!! I have all of it, albeit in kind of shitty format, if you want.
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The way you have Ritual set up seems like a good in-between, but having reader feedback at every little point, continuously - hm. Don't you feel like that could eventually result in the fiction becoming basically a 'product' responding mechanically to what the readers want?Yes, absolutely - unless the writer has a real iron control over exactly the way they want it to go. I was responsive to feedback on my stories, and sometimes did things by request - but only if it was also something that I was interested in exploring (and able to: yeah, still no Mylar. Fail). It's a double-edged sword, speaking from a creator's perspective; after a time that kind of feedback becomes (or feels) essential, and without it, it's harder to create. I'm ( ... )
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