Brief trip report about yesterday's idea for how to approach writing interactive fiction: It worked, in the sense that I took that approach and it resulted in me writing stuff and the writing was enjoyable. I only got as far as the writing straight through, not yet the
(Disclaimer: I've never written an interactive story. This is me theorizing based on toying with Twine and Ren'Py.) Here's one way to draft an interactive story with Twine or Ren'Py: Just write it straight through. Write a linear story. Then, go back
While doing research for the followership interconnectedness post, I ran into the idea of a complex contagion. It means a pattern of behavior you have to see or read about more than once before you try it out or adopt it. It reminded me of writing. I read more than
Visa tweeted once about the density of interconnections in Twitter followerships: an interesting variable that’s not immediately, obviously easily observable in social graphs (currently): amongst say a dozen celebrities with over 1m followers, whose network is the most dense with interconnected relationships? — Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) August 28, 2021 Quoted
I have a very specific image in my head of what "very online" means, but I'm noticing there are other possibilities. I picture 4chan and memes that make no sense except in terms of five generations of other memes I've never heard of. I