Hi, everyone– It has not been long since the last one, but there’s a new story at webyarns.com… “This Is Not A Poem” is a toy, a game, a language engine, and a poem all at the same time…. The new plaything is at http://www.ThisIsNotAPoem.com Also, in case you missed it, “My Nervous Breakdown,” released [...]

“My Nervous Breakdown” is a new digital story from webyarns.com. Any similarities to people living or dead (including myself) is purely an accident and not worth mentioning…. http://www.webyarns.com/MyNervousBreakdown.html

(1) Are there any prerequisites to being a digital writer? To be a digital writer, it’s probably best if you like to write, or at least not hate it.  Then, if you can pull as many muses into your corner as you can, that might help: history, music, dance, astronomy, and art…. Patience is a [...]

Here’s a new one from webyarns.com: “Archetypal Africa” takes a look at common objects in everyday life, and their symbolic resonance within myth and culture. The piece plays with fact and fiction as it leads the user toward an opportunity to define their own archetypal moment…. You can read the story at http://www.ArchetypalAfrica.com Also, Brainstrips [...]

Like many writers, I have a love-hate relationship with my work. Some days, it’s smooth sailing with clear skies right up to the horizon. And other days, it’s a gale, with the compass off kilter and the water swamping over the gunwales. It’s on the bad days that I hate what I do, and wish [...]

For this third in a series of ten posts on digital literature, I asked myself, as one would interrogate a terror suspect, Why do you write digital literature? At first, I choked (it was a kind of psychic water boarding), and then I came up with this…. (1) Because I like it. I like the [...]

Ten is a round number, it has a nice ring to it, so I’m using it for a series of blog posts. Ten, of course. The first was Ten Misconceptions About Digital Literature, and this one is Ten Predictions. The last will probably be Ten Reasons Why I Should Not Have Done This, but until [...]

(1) Digital literature is dead. I was at the eNarrative5 Conference at MIT in 2003, and a Canadian critic claimed to a packed conference room that electronic literature was dead. He said it like the corpse was lying at his feet, and if we only looked down, we would see it. He was wrong, of [...]