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Sponsor |  Niccilope | Jan 22, 2006 12:35am | Discussion of the metafiction "Creamed Corn". What did you like? Hate? What mistakes do you think the author made or areas do you see for improvement, etc.
Creamed Corn by Jason Pettus |
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|  llamaman | Jan 28, 2006 9:31am | | Creamed Corn was my first experience with "hyper-fiction". I appreciate what the author was trying to do, but I'm not sure how I feel about it. There are definite advantages to the hyperlink-style storytelling, but I'm not sure if it gains more than it loses. |
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Sponsor | | Niccilope | Jan 28, 2006 11:28am | The thing that I found is that because you're thrown directly into the midst of the story, there's no build-up, no getting aquainted with the characters. No reason to care about them.
I think about the classic "Choose your own adventure", and they always started with a "proper beginning" before you began making your own choices on where you wanted to go.
Another difference with Creamed Corn is that the hyperlinks are throughout page of text. It was just that I could turn right or left, or make one choice in the story or another, it was usually an arbitrary decision about which link I'd click - and sometimes the text that it led to was disappointing with no frame of reference for the reader.
Not sure if it *has* to be this way either. I wonder, if Pettus were to re-write the story now if he would do anything differently...
Nicci |
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