CTWR 518 - Interactive Writing

TK3 Projects

I've created a central post (and a category) for all our TK3 projects. Right now, I've linked all of the ones we presented as well as Julie's. You can add links to the comments if you're posting them online elsewhere so they can all be organized into one page.

• Erin Dinehart [956KiB]
• Jenova Chen [14MiB]
• Julie Dillon [626KiB]
• Kellee Santiago [540KiB]
• Leonard Lin [8.7MiB]
• Michael Steffen [9.9MB]

New ones:

• Brad Newman [846KiB]
• Peggy Weil [775KiB]
• Jason Scott [336KiB]
• Andrew Sacher [11MiB]

Online Version of Briar Rose

Here is the link to the online version at Brown:

Briar Rose Page

Take a look and comment on the difference between the paper and electronic versions.

The TK3 Strain

This was posted the day Bob Stein came to see us.

After our assignments were actually due, I almost did a 180 on my position - where I was inspired by Bob Stein's presentation, I found the interface to TK3 just as frustrating as learning any other new program. Actually, it was more frustrating, because instead of using programming-like lanugage in the terminology, it was more lamen's terms, which I think are harder to figure out.

I think also many of us were learning Director 8.5 at the same time, and had the unfortunate ability to compare learning the two programs simultaneously. This allowed me to see that learning TK3 was definitely more frustrating than the usual "bleck, I'm learning a new program" kind of feeling.

Did I say "frustrating"?

TK3

This was posted on my personal blog.....

Like, Kellee I was also intrigued by TK3 -- it too spawned many ideas in my head about applications. A couple of weeks before last semester ended I was mulling over a multi-authored fictional blog. Although I never really thought through it, it was something I was definitely interested in pursuing. When Bob mentioned that TK3 could be published as modifiable, I thought that this might be a good avenue for a multi-authored fiction. My thoughts are to create a 'book' written by IM students, each of us doing a page at a time, in TK3. I figured we could set a specific theme perhaps, but then after that there would be no rules!

I thought this could be useful as an introspective look at IM students, our creativity, our goals, our visions, our dreams etc. I would really like to do this but obviously I can't do it alone. So, please let me know if you guys think this is LAME, or if you'd be interested in doing it. It wouldn't take up too much time, and we could work out a rotation.

It would be something great to have at the end of the semester, I think!

Danny Hillis: 7 Stages of Mythic Experience

Designing an Immersive Experience
Danny Hillis outlines his theory of the 7 Stages of Mythic Experience in a letter to Stewart Brand about their project, The Clock of the Long Now. As they consider where to build their monument, they are carefully considering the entire experience, beginning with anticipation and ending with carrying the experience back into the world. Hillis's vision of this progression is a type of narrative, interactive, if you will, immersive experience.

The Mountain and The Clock by Stewart Brand

Pride and Extreme Prejudice

Peggy mentioned collaborative writing in her email today, which reminded me of a great piece I read earlier last year. A bunch of people in the rec.arts.sf.written newsgroup writing a hilarious Terminator/Jane Austen mashup.

I'm now tempted to either write a novel about the Terminator universe in the style of Jane Austen, or to write a Jane Austen plot with the Terminator involved.

Oh, definitely the latter. A Victorian comedy-of-manners with an undercover shapeshifting robotic assassin from the future who's.... hmm.... who's trying to stop someone else from...

making an unfortuante marriage.

"Indeed," said the man (whom Patience could not help but think of as made of clockwork, though he manifestly was something far stranger), "I speak of these things not merely because of the way that I am made, though indeed a machine should do that which it is made to do, but because I have found that I have developed, through our many conversations, a feeling of that which is proper, both within the bounds of your society and without; and being that I am, here, a gentleman, I find that I am also bound to behave as a gentleman would, and indeed, Lady Patience, I must warn you that this Mr. Connor is a man of less than sterling character."

Patience was quite taken aback by this sudden expression of personal concern, so unlike the measured rationality of the Mr. Terminus that she had come to know and depend upon, and so for several moments she sat quietly, simply looking upon his earnest, if overly regular, countenance, before she had quite decided upon her reply. "Sir, your concern for me is noted, and not entirely without my appreciation, but you are most forward and presumptuous to offer advice in such a matter, in which you cannot have any interest and which is, therefore, entirely between myself and Mr. Connor."

Check out Google Groups for the rest of the thread.