Dec 12
My experimental transmedia fiction project Azrael’s Stop has been going again for about a month and a half, which means we’re nearing the halfway point of the year-long story. I’m hoping that things are going to be even more interesting going forward as we try out a couple more cool experiments, and the story amps …
Nov 08
One week ago, I launched a writing project called Azrael’s Stop. Far from traditional writing, it’s an experiment in unorthodox narrative, serial fiction, and transmedia storytelling theory. It’s live now at azraelsstop.com The Structure Azrael’s Stop is an experimental transmedia story, telling a serial narrative over the course of a year through daily installments of …
Oct 28
This morning we have a guest post over at Andrea Phillips’ blog, Deus Ex Machinatio. It’s once again looking at Azrael’s Stop and breaking it down and building it up again — this time specifically from the perspective of writing it and the structure I chose. An excerpt: A big piece of that was in …
Oct 26
Today, our article on Azrael’s Stop from the self-publishing perspective has been featured on the Self-Publishing Review. An excerpt: They say, “build it and they will come.” Well whoever “they” are, are wrong. (“They” are of course the film Field of Dreams, and they were right, but that’s beside the point.) This is something I’m …
Oct 24
This week we have a guest post over at the blog of transmedia viking Simon Staffans, all about lessons learned from Azrael’s Stop and our impending re-launch (next week!). An excerpt: The promise of using social media as a way to distribute or promote content is the potential for it to go viral and reach …
Sep 30
Ever since our inaugural experimental storytelling project Azrael’s Stop went on haitus in June, I’ve been working on bringing it back. It needed a lot of work and a lot of rethinking, and a lot more planning than I had done originally, but I wasn’t done with it — there was a lot more story …
Jun 01
Four months ago I launched Silverstring Media’s first project, Azrael’s Stop. I largely envisioned Azrael’s Stop as an experimental project, a chance to test some theories of transmedia storytelling on a small scale, and to see what could come of it while I worked on other projects. Now that a significant amount of time has …
May 01
At the end of every month of our twitter fiction project Azrael’s Stop, we’ve released a piece of bonus content, something that stands alone from the primary story but serves to enhance it. At the end of February, it was a short story in the form of a kind of folk tale, told in-world by …
Apr 04
This week brings a few pieces of news for Silverstring Media. Azrael’s Stop Contest: Last month we announced a twitter fiction contest for our ongoing project Azrael’s Stop. We didn’t have as many entries as we had hoped, but the quality of the entries we did get was superb. The entries are posted here; each …
Mar 31
I admit to a great deal of optimism in promising 10 winners for the Azrael’s Stop death-themed Twitter fiction contest we launched a couple weeks ago, given that we received a grand total of five entries. However, every entry we did receive was of exceptional quality, so I have no qualms in rewarding the submitters! …
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