Technology imitating story imitating technology...
Reading this story in the Daily Mirror, I got the distinct sense that I was looking into one of those clever optical illusion paintings of a person looking in a mirror looking at a person inside a mirror, looking at a person inside a... well you know what I mean. The ones that seem to go on forever, one reality containing the next. Here's the gist: A young, poor boy in India visits a train station with his brother. He falls asleep on the train platform. When he awakes, his br
Consider the role of place and time in your story.
What is the terroire of your project? This is something that interactive writers need to consider carefully. The internet, like radio, has the ability to take us anywhere in a nanosecond. We may be deep in the psychological landscape of an insomniac, or at the heart of a tiny community somewhere in the Canadian North. The internet can bring local storytelling out to the masses, uncovering what is universal in the specific. An interactive project needs to consider the relatio