Playable Communications
I’m in the process of researching some background/inspiration material for my PhD project, gathering myths & stories. If you have one, please post a comment, send me an email, FB message, note (tag me), whatever. ...
We all toss around the word ‘interdisciplinary’ like it’s a good thing. “We’re an interdisciplinary department”, “I’m doing interdisciplinary research”, blah blah blah. But when it comes down to it, we often just mean we’ll ...
It was inevitable: give me three weeks on my own, with no work responsibilities, and I will read. Straight through. I haven’t been able to actually read a book since the winter break; between teaching ...
Finding a Web-builder First, I’m not a giant corporation with tons of cash to spend to hire a web developer to create the all-singing, all-dancing web extravaganza I’d envisioned. I’m a broke PhD student, struggling ...
Features But what kind of website? I could build a simple flash site that takes my readers through my stories click by click, the way Inanimate Alice does. It’s a pretty simple option, really, and ...
Deciding on a Platform This was pretty simple. All it took was my supervisor handing me some CD-ROMs containing the premier examples of electronic writing (all hypertexts in Storyspace). Then me sitting down at my ...
I love Spring Break. No teaching. No office hours. No meetings or training sessions. No having to talk to people. I just get to sit in my home office, make my list of tasks for ...
I’ve written fiction now for a while, always intended for print publication. The adages there are always “first drafts are shit,” “we’re not writers, we’re REwriters,” and “revise, revise, revise.” We hear about Hemingway reworking ...
I’m Super Organized Girl. Maybe it’s my father’s diluted OCD in my genes, recombined with that of my maternal grandmother. Maybe it’s the decade I spent as a professional writer, coordinating projects and people and ...
The word “idea” sounds all fresh and innocent, doesn’t it? It sounds exciting, refreshing, hopeful. In truth, ideas are dirty little buggers. Deceptive and manipulative, they worm their way into your mind like microscopic parasites, ...