I just found a website called Printpusher that is doing some interesting things with blognovels and blooks (both terms which I’m coming to despise, by the way). From all appearances, this is a site dedicated (literally) to pushing various writing experiments into the blogosphere’s consciousness. Internet marketing for blooks, in other words. I don’t really [...]
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In May of 1999, shortly after the release of his seminal work Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson gave an interview to Salon.com in which he made the (at first blush) rather cryptic claim that “Ever since the Mac came out our operating systems have been based on metaphors.” The interviewer goes on to explain for our benefit [...]
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Fellow office dork Grant recently forwarded to me a snippet from an interview Neal Stephenson gave to Slashdot. Presumably, office dork Grant did this because he knows I have a serious case of man wood for Neal Stephenson (despite the fact that I’ve bogged down 2/3 of the way through The Confusion and just can’t [...]
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In my neverending quest to dig deeper into the concept of blogging long form fiction, I stumbled across the Leicester Review of Books definitive list of blog novels (all 29 of them). Of course, calling anything “definitive” in the ever-changing landscape of the web is dangerous, but I must admit some curiosity as to how [...]
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We’ve spent a considerable amount of time here in the first month of this blog talking about blognovel theory and treating it, to some extent, like some sort of “new writing”, or at least playing with the idea that it’s a writing form with different narrative rules than the traditional paper-publishing form. Just so you’ll [...]
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As promised, we’re going to take a quick look at the blognovel plan b today and analyze some of Diego Doval’s narrative choices that I think were ingredients in his success with this experiment. One quick caveat: When I think of blognovels, I’m specifically referring to narratives that clearly represent themselves as stories rather than [...]
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So we’re back from our extended Thanksgiving holiday, and I want to pick up where I left off thinking about some of the insights I’m drawing (or at least attempting to draw) from Erik Davis’s outstanding work, Techgnosis. Last time, I left you with a quote from Davis in which he posited the notion that [...]
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Have you ever read the screenplay for a movie you particularly liked? Not quite as satisfying an experience as Dolby surround sound, a darkened theater and a bucket full of jujubes, even though the essentially the same information gets transferred from the screenplay to your brain (minus some visual or audio bells and whistles. ). [...]
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There was an old discussion on Slashdot on the viability of the blognovel as an artistic medium, with specific reference to the plan b blognovel experiment, which raises some interesting points for pondering. The comment that struck me as particularly true: It seems to me that this is similar to other ideas, both that the [...]
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I’m not a twitchgamer. To be honest, I’m not sure I even know how to turn on my kids’ XBox 360, and when it is turned on, I’ve proven repeatedly that I don’t understand the controls. My kids don’t seem to mind this when we’re playing Halo 3 for some reason. Apparently having a combat [...]
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