On Reading Digital Texts
“A BOOK [in the medium sense],” writes Charles Catton in a recent Medium piece on the so-called ‘enhanced’ ebook, “is a means of transporting the author’s words to the reader through the act of...
View ArticleOn Writing Digital Texts
Since 2001 I’ve been writing collaborative multimedia digital stories alongside my work as a writer of literary fiction. Working in these parallel fields has served me well as writer, mostly...
View ArticleThe Silence of the Ebooks
In the midst of an animated discussion with a grad student, weighed down with armfuls of books on media archaeology and criticism, I was utterly stumped by my inability to locate something I’d...
View ArticleBuilding Workflows for Authoring Digital Fiction
When Haig Armen and I set about building a technical infrastructure for our workshop (and for digital storytelling generally), we scoped out a presentation layer (focusing the reader’s experience) and...
View ArticleWhat does DF look like?
What does DF look like? Back in the 90s, the digital fiction works I was most familiar with were those published by Eastgate Systems: they were black and white works with little boxes around the words,...
View ArticleDigital Fiction, “transmedia” moments, and mood: What we can learn from the...
shazia hafiz ramji On the train home after the first day of the Digital Pathways workshop, I was left with the question: “Why do I feel the way I feel when I read or watch something really great? Why...
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Reflections on Digital Pathways
The noontime whistle of the steam clock, days of sunshine and days of cloud, and the comings and goings of the harbour below…these elements of Vancouver’s Gastown inspired and served as backdrop to the...
View ArticleMoments
As we delved into the process of determining what form our digital fiction would take, we quickly realized that we needed accurate vocabulary to be able to talk about the individual units of the story...
View ArticleBooks in Browsers 2014
Haig & I were honoured to present on Digital Pathways at Books in Browsers 2014 in San Francisco, on Oct 23-24, 2014. Here’s our slides: http://digitalpathways.net/bib14
View ArticleThe Last Cartographer
We’ve now published the outcome from the Digital Fiction workshop. It’s still a little rough around the edges but it represents the story that was created by the end of the week. Last Cartographer The...
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