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 …
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 07
In the last two weeks, I attended as many transmedia conferences: Merging Media in Vancouver, and StoryWorld in San Francisco. My head is still reeling from the experience, which I can only describe as “awesome” in every sense of the word. At both events, I have to say that while many of the panels and …
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 …
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 03
Last Thursday and Friday I had the opportunity and pleasure of attending Merging+Media‘s transmedia seminar and lab with Anita Ondine (who teaches transmedia around the world and among other things produced Lance Weiler’s Pandemic). Thursday morning was the seminar, which anyone could attend. It covered a lot of the basics of transmedia, mostly things I’d …
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 …
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! …
Mar 15
If you’ve been following Azrael’s Stop, you’ll know that a lot of people die in that bar, many coming there as if led. It is named for the Angel of Death, after all. And you’ll have noted that at the end of February, we released a special piece of bonus content in the form of …
Mar 08
As we enter the second month of Azrael’s Stop, I’ve been putting a lot of thought into the use of Twitter as a storytelling platform — both on its own or as a driving platform, and as a smaller part of a transmedia story. Twitter has already been used in a lot of innovative ways …
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