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fiction class, project #2
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 3:17 am
by 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
Re: fiction class, project #2
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:27 am
by Drem
i liked it
are you gonna make more?
Re: fiction class, project #2
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:25 am
by 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.
Re: fiction class, project #2
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:54 am
by Drem
kurosawa did that in the film Rashomon. it was awesome
Re: fiction class, project #2
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:39 am
by Zanchief
Drem wrote:kurosawa did that in the film Rashomon. it was awesome
word
Re: fiction class, project #2
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:54 am
by Tikker
Harrison wrote: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
Re: fiction class, project #2
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 9:36 pm
by brinstar
the prof wrote: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
