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Defining : ELM (Electronic Literary Macrame)

2. March 2009

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Defining : ELM (Electronic Literary Macrame)

Electronic Publishing – the forms of electronic novels took yet another path with my discovery of a mammoth, multi-threaded novel called Descending Road – written, developed and published by Dana W. Paxson. The novel itself is free as a demo for this format, and is readable on any device with a decent web browser. It utilises [...]

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Defining : The Wovel – [Web Serial Novels]

8. February 2009

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Defining : The Wovel – [Web Serial Novels]

WOVEL= Web Novel. But it seems a slightly orchestrated Web 2.0  name for what, in essence, is potentially the coming of age for Serial Novels - with a dash of interactivity and the return of those Choose Your Own Adventure type stories we all enjoyed a couple of decades ago.

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Visual and Interactive Novels

15. October 2008

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Today I happened to join up onto NaNoWriMo for this year – or rejoin and start looking at the forums. Introducing myself onto my regional group, I went back to find that Alex had shortly after introduced himself, and his previous work. And from this came my introduction to a form of novels I’ve never [...]

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Defining : Timed Writing

12. September 2008

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Foreword : Like many new writers, I’ve read a lot of books (and websites) about writing, and writing techniques. And like many very new writers, I’ve often been confused by some of the – often interchangeable – terms being used out there for particular techniques or exercises. It took me a good several months of [...]

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Defining : World Building

11. September 2008

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Foreword : In a Writing course I am currently taking, author and tutor Holly Isle asks us the question – “Why Do Writers World Build?” and this may well be enough for you (and I) to stop tracks and spend quite a while working out all the egotistical and control-efforts behind this subject. It’s a [...]

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Mini Sagas and Photos

26. August 2008

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Keeping to the Change This manifestos (see last post), I discovered this one. It’s free, so view the manifesto in your browser, or download it. Written by Rajesh Setty, the Mini Sagas manifesto incorporates photographs and a piece of writing work which the author calls Mini Sagas. From Mini Sagas: “A mini saga is a story told [...]

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E is for electronic (or eco) : Defining E-Books

17. August 2008

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E is for electronic (or eco) : Defining E-Books

An e-book (for electronic book: also ebook: also ecobook) is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually read on personal computers, or on dedicated hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices. An e-book is a specialized type of e-text. read the rest of the Wikipedia article

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