Comments on: Not CYOA, its PYOP now

by: Ficlets: Literary Lego at WRT: Writer Response Theory

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:26:01 +0000

[…] We at WRT have been looking at the use of new technologies (specifically web applications) for storytelling for a while. In particular, here are some of the web technologies we’ve covered here: Diigo Fiction, Snap Fiction, Wiki Fiction, PYOP (pic-your-own-podventure), Google Maps and Earth. Despite all this flurry, it is very rare to find a simple app, or web app, that has been created specifically for storytelling. We’ve covered iStory and of course extensive interactive narrative software such as TADS. Today we’re pleased to share with you a new web app that has been created for storytelling. It is called ‘ficlets’ and was launched just a few months ago at:… […]

by: Time Travel via electronic literature at WRT: Writer Response Theory

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:38:17 +0000

[…] Perhaps these literary hypertexts have their closest for-runners in the CYOA “Cave of Time” by Edward Packard and other tales. Remember, this was the first of the Choose Your Own Adventures. (Time travel would reappear in this genre many times.) Note: New CYOA’s are currently available for download on iPod for free only until January 25! Perhaps inspired by pick-your-own-podventure?). As in CYOA, if the reader follows the path of a time-traveler, then their narrative leaps can easily be chronological leaps. Orientation to new settings is part of the narrative structure, so the author has a built in means for offering exposition to new moments in the story. As authors have worked to reconceptualize literary hypertext, a few have chosen time travel as a plot that transforms the hyperlink into a narrative device of chronological movement. […]

by: Mark Marino

Fri, 12 May 2006 04:40:13 +0000

Very cool, Christy. Certainly even media forms we thought were disposable have lived on, but don't you get the sense that at the same time we do an awful lot of forgetting about what we already know. Toby Miller is always reminding me that our media analysis tends to look either at originary or contemporary moments but have great blind spots for everything in between. So while we might know about the Illiad, the Internet and CYOA, we might forget about the history of the development of the telegraph. Vincent Mosco has made this argument in The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (MIT Press, 2004).