women & digital fiction

podcast introduction - about me and this project

2007-02-23T04:27:00.000-08:00

Please click on this link to hear my recorded introduction.

Gabcast! digital fiction & women #1

Dreaming Methods

2007-02-06T14:06:00.000-08:00

A high percentage of online, or digital fiction, is based around sci-fi or thriller genres.

Andy Campbell's Dreaming Methods website hosts a variety of short pieces of high quality digital fiction.

Right click on the link to view one of these short pieces -

http://www.dreamingmethods.com/miriam/
One man's darkly comical search for his missing wife.

inanimate alice by kate pullinger & babel

2007-02-05T07:35:00.000-08:00

Some digital fiction is more cinematic, with differing levels of interactivity and introduce gaming elements.

The award-winning Inanimate Alice tells the story of Alice, growing up in the early years of the 21st century. Written and directed by writer Kate Pullinger and digital artist Chris Joseph, this series of multimedia, interactive episodes uses a combination of text, sound, images, and games as Alice takes us on a journey through her life from the age of eight through to her twenties.

Accolades include:
“....ebooks. it's not about the device, it's about the experience. and the experience is not about what you or I think of as "reading" because that is not what will happen. I was profoundly struck by inanimatealice.com. people should take a look at that production. imagine that, and imagine that *authored* easily, and portable, and you see a glimpse of the near future.” (Peter Brantley)

http://www.inanimatealice.com/

pamela small - by alan bigelow

2007-02-05T07:29:00.000-08:00

Pamela Small is an interactive 'web-yarn' by US digital author, Alan Bigelow.
It starts with simple introduction, "Pamela Small is a teenage girl on trial for arson, murder and theft"...

http://www.pamelasmall.com/1.html

searching - chapter one

2007-01-29T14:21:00.000-08:00

'searching' is a film-driven mock up of the beginning of an ambitious digital project - a story about communication, which charts the problems in the relationship of Clive & Kate.
'searching' will embrace reader interactivity and this cinematic piece follows an intricate, non-linear plot. This excerpt, which is very much a work-in-progress still, is part one, mostly from Clive's point of view.

Click on the link to see the work-in-progress that is 'searching', chapter one - searching - Clive & Kate searching - fiction assessment

Short pieces

2007-01-24T05:17:00.000-08:00

And some pieces are ‘shorts’, almost like tv ads –

SKIN

Skin is a piece based on a series of short interviews with women, and real quotes taken from media, on how women feel about their bodies. A child's voice is used to suggest the young age at which body dysmorphia begins in our celebrity obsessed world.

click on this link to view --
SKIN

America

2007-01-24T05:14:00.000-08:00

America is a short comic piece from co-DMU student, Toni LeBusque.

click on this link to view -- America

Staying Single launch

2007-01-24T04:42:00.000-08:00

Staying Single is a pilot to see whether readers will embrace the concept of literature through the internet.

Initially written as my 4th novel, I have now begun adapting Staying Single for an online community.

Staying Single is a story of a woman, Sophie Regan, who is tired of being continually dumped, and decides that she will remain single for an entire year.

This online version of Staying Single will give the reader many options -
-- to read the story in instalments via the Staying Single blog which will be updated regularly, and which will give links to additional background information regarding the storyline,
-- to subscribe to an email list, which will deliver each new instalment of the story direct to your mailbox,
-- to listen or to download a podcast of the story.
-- the story blog will be laced with mini video clips of public opinion at crucial dilemmas in Sophie's story and comments on the blog will be welcomed.

Right click this link, and select 'open in new window' to view an example of the Staying Single blog, which will then lead you to all reading options -
http://sophie-stayingsingle.blogspot.com/

Please feel free to post comments - the purpose of this project is to gather a comprehensive collection of opinions from both readers, and writers.