by Bret

Your Own Adventure (Choose It)

Hello interneteriat.

 

I want to conduct a little experiment to see whether a Facebook page (or blog) can be used as a medium to tell a story- specifically, a ‘choose your own adventure’ story that would capitalise on the interactive nature of social media.

To that end, I have a text-based adventure for you, dear readers. This is a short supernatural story set in the modern world (for ease of description, etc) and would simply involve you folks making decisions at key points to progress the story.

You can partake on Facebook or my blog by commenting (but don’t do both at the same time for the sake of tallying results. The most popular choice wins.

Each post will be a ‘scene’. Each scene will have one or more decisions that resolve it, which you can vote for by commenting with 1, 2, 3, etc.

To gauge level of interest and give it a quick test, I’m going to let you choose the story’s protagonist. The tale will be set in modern-day London, unless a sudden whimsy takes hold of me to move it.

1. Kate ‘Karma’ Glover, 20 year old programmer and hacker. A little unsociable but bearing great willpower.
2. Youssef Khalid, 40 year old shopkeeper and amateur boxer. Disillusioned but very kind and capable.
3. Stephen Atwood, 30 year old mechanic and ex-con. Conflicted and angry but unerringly loyal.

What say you?

 

 

Beware the Editing Raptor

I’d better do some blog posting, hadn’t I?

 

The last two weeks have largely been consumed by editing. As I’ve said, Splinters of Truth is on its way. One story in particular, ‘The Firebird’, has been giving me considerable grief. Progress had been delayed by that most dreaded of creatures, the Editing Raptor.

The Editing Raptor is intelligent, swift and deadly. He can open doors, doors into your self-doubt that allow his pack to enter your mind and attack anything that you thought was cool in the first draft.

Just Smile

Yeah, thought I’d mess with a photo.

 

This is another idea for a recurring image post style of thing. It’s called ‘Redacted’ because it appeals to me aesthetically to baleet things like eyes from photos, but also because I like juxtaposing text and pictures of differing tones.

Things do tend to creep into pictures that might look a bit odd with the right slant. It helps when you’re the kind of person whose life is often crept into by things that look a bit odd.