Jan 06
An article today on NPR about fantasy world-building suggests that what was once for the most outcast of nerds is (along with general geekdom) gaining more widespread acceptance, that the incredibly detailed worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin, and Robert Jordan have a definite – and perhaps lauded – place. I’m a total geek. …
Oct 15
A while ago, a friend of mine asked for my thoughts on a question she had, and I thought I’d post my answer here: How do you explain or convince traditional writers of the value of transmedia writing? For example, if I’m dealing with a comic book writer who is dead set on creating a …
Feb 27
Last year, I taught myself the basics of writing Interactive Fiction using Inform 7. I did it to create one of the pieces of bonus content for Azrael’s Stop, a short game called Dreamscape. A couple weeks ago, Sara Thacher and Lorraine Hopping expressed interest in the process of doing so, so I thought I’d …
Dec 09
I first encountered Adam through Twitter (as with a lot of my transmedia contacts, frankly…). At some point I realized that not only is this a guy with some cool ideas, transmedia-wise, but a guy who loves Dungeons and Dragons and video game soundtracks as much as I do. And that’s just awesome. And then …
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 …
Oct 10
If there’s one thing that strikes me about writing for transmedia stories, it’s that there’s a lot more to it than just writing. If I write a novel, I have to plan the storyline of the novel, the character arcs, themes and tone, and then put it all into flowing, beautiful words. That’s not easy. …
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 …
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 28
I’ve been following FRINGE pretty much since it first aired, and while the first half of the first season or so was a little iffy, it’s since grabbed me by the throat and pulled me into the detailed, plot-driven long-term story and interesting, well-thought-out storyworld. I think it’s done a pretty decent job of setting …
Feb 28
One of the roles of a transmedia creator is to develop the storyworld of a property, to ensure that it is big enough and rich enough to sustain stories across media, and to ensure that it has a consistent theme and tone. Last week, Chuck Wendig wrote an article about worldbuilding for writers, and I …
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