Dec 02
I can’t remember when or why I started following the blogging and tweeting of Chuck Wendig, but I have not regretted it once. His profanity-laced musings (check out his blog, terribleminds), writer’s advice (buy his awesome e-books of hilarious writing advice here), and the fiction he writes (buy Shotgun Gravy right now — seriously — …
Nov 18
This week on Creative Voice, I got to talk to the awesome JC Hutchins. JC built his career as a freelance transmedia writer from the ground up, podcasting his first novel, 7TH SON, and opening it up to collaboration, and then moving on to working with Jordan Weisman on PERSONAL EFFECTS: DARK ARTS, and many …
Nov 09
A lot of the talk around transmedia is about how it’s the “future of storytelling”, that this is the direction the entertainment industry is inevitably going, etc. I’ve said it myself, I’m sure. The thing is, I’m not sure I entirely agree with it. There’s absolutely no doubt that this is a great form of …
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 …
Sep 26
I’ve been a fan of the show Castle since near the end of the first season, when I started watching. Mostly because it’s Nathan Fillion and the role is perfect for him — plus, he plays a writer, and that’s pretty cool. It’s a fun show, all told. So I was certainly interested when they …
Aug 01
At the Merging+Media lab and seminar back in April, Anita Ondine talked about the need to build “hooks” into a transmedia property. This was the name she gave to those bits of story that are put in one medium that draw you to another medium, another part of the story. They’re the pieces of story …
Jun 23
A friend and I were just discussing JK Rowling’s Pottermore announcement from earlier today, especially in relation to this video I was pointed towards by vlogbrothers Hank and John Green: The gist is that the announcement really said very little about what Pottermore is actually going to be. We know it’s going to be some …
Feb 17
Though I’m far behind on my reading, a few articles have caught my eye this week. The Perfect Transmedia Pitch Always one to have smart things to say about the industry, Simon Pulman talks about how to pitch a transmedia project to potential investors, partners, collaborators, and clients. Having gone through the proposal-writing process myself, …
Jan 28
I wrote two articles this week at Words and Things about The Hunger Games trilogy, what I did and didn’t like, things we can learn from a writing perspective, etc. I’ve heard brief discussion about the potential of turning the Hunger Games into a transmedia property, and I thought I’d make a couple notes on …
Oct 22
This week, I watched The Social Network, and besides loving it as a film (Aaron Sorkin is my god) it fired up the entrepreneur in me. I started thinking about all the things I’d love to do if I could, especially when it came to transmedia projects. (And I started thinking about the people I’d …
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