THE FISHERY: a diary of the Loose-Fish Project

The first twitter fiction I ever saw was Zombie Attack, a first person account of, well, a zombie attack. Zombie Attack went quiet back in July, but yesterday, they started updating again. Welcome back!

Our presentation went very well, and a lot of folks seems to be interested in what we’re doing.  Here are the slides we used to present.  I read the text (or a loose approximation of it) and Bronwen controlled the slides.There is an audio recording of it, and I will try to get my hands on it.  It includes the  Q&A period afterwards.

It’s become clear to me that at some point, my idea of what makes a good story has diverged from the mainstream. I have a hard time with many movies these days, where it seems that no matter how interesting it is in the beginning, the end degenerates into twenty minutes of blowing things up, mayhem, or chaos that rises to the level of absurdity. Take the ending of the recent remake of “3:10 To Yuma,” with its never-ending gunfight and ridiculous, concluding “moral” choice which defies all logic. Now contrast this with the climax of “Gone, Baby, Gone” which is a conversation between two people where the outcome will alter many lives.

I guess what I’m trying to get at it that a conversation can be more interesting, more dangerous, more fraught with peril that any action sequence.

And while were on action sequences, I’ve come to regard most of them as little more than pornography.  Continue Reading »

Tomorrow is BarCamp LA, which is where I’m taking the wraps off of this project and The Good Captain. Busy with last minute preparations. Excited.

I hope you like what we’re cooking up for you.

What the heck are we up to here?  Here’s a mini-manifesto.

Here are some questions that are asked, frequently.

Want to jump straight to our first story?  Right this way, through the hypertext curtain.