fiction class, project #2

[brinstar]

i hesitate to post this here, but wth

our second project was to write a piece of ergodic fiction. ergodic comes from the greek roots ergos, to work, and hodos, path. the idea of a piece of fiction that requires more work from the reader than simply reading words on a page. an easy example is the "choose your own adventure" books that most people read as kids, where you the reader directly affect the outcome

my project attempted to explore the question "what would a conspiracy theory look from the INSIDE" and it took place in the form of a blog. i won't spend any more time introducing it, so here it is

[Drem]

i liked it

are you gonna make more?

[Harrison]

I've always wanted to write a story from various viewpoints that would only make complete sense once you've finished reading them all in entirety.

I'm sure it's been done before but, I've always liked that idea myself.

[Drem]

kurosawa did that in the film Rashomon. it was awesome

[Zanchief]

kurosawa did that in the film Rashomon. it was awesome

word

[Tikker]

I've always wanted to write a story from various viewpoints that would only make complete sense once you've finished reading them all in entirety.

I'm sure it's been done before but, I've always liked that idea myself.

Thieves world series

each character written by a different author, so you end up with a really interesting story once it's all pieced together

[brinstar]

The "Spirefly Event" (great title, by the by) is a well-handled, well-written, and effectively conceptualized piece of ergodic fiction that uses the very contemporary concept of the "blog" in an interesting, pomo and literary way. The blog is "supposed" to be a very personal, online kind of diary, and your creation of an entirely fictional character-as-narrator to write a "real" blog and send it out into the "real" world wide web, is at once metafiction and also an intriguing kind of literary-minded hoax.

I couldn't get the LA-Times link to function properly, but all in all this is an exciting piece of ergodic lit and I hope that you continue with it.

embedded links mine

feels pretty good