I want to elicit some reader suggestions about New Media Writing, aka hypertext or multimedia writing. I'm going to teach a class on the subject next year, and also Jason Boog and I have been discussing it today on The Publishing Spot (that link'll be up tomorrow likely).
House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski is the work I think people most often point to for a hypertext novel. The BLOOKER Awards came out yesterday. Finally, there’s a cool interview between Marjorie Luesebrink and Thomas Swiss that sheds a lot of light on the subject.
Okay, that gets us started. Where to go next? Leave any comments below.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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Like choose your own adventure?
I find Hypertext stories intriguing, but honestly don't read them a lot. I did once upon a time, about six or seven years ago, but haven't much since. I do like the more graphic-driven stories that limit the number of path choices. And for me, micro is the way to go for online storytelling. I "read" a story once that I really enjoyed (if I find it I'll post the link); the story was created in Flash and included audio, visual and text. The phone ringing while the screen went dark was startling, and you never knew where you might click to find the next bit of the story. I know there are computer programs now that are easier to learn than flash, I hope people do keep forging ahead with the medium. I love the kind of cross between radio-film-TV-books-magazines.
Check out Steve Tomasula's "VAS: An Opera in Flatland."
Check out Steve Tomasula's "VAS: An Opera in Flatland."
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