Comments on: Possibilities

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:53:50 +0000

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Lindsey Petersen

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 01:27:42 +0000

Be careful what you wish for. The minute you add pictures and video -- IT ISN'T A BOOK.

Look at all the forms of media available now that think they can get away without writers -- ie, Movies, TV & Video Games.

Do you really want to embrace another form of technology where the suits at the top of mass market media companies think they can sell product without a writer? Ugh.

By: nova ren suma

nova ren suma — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:47:40 +0000

Once this kind of technology exists, it will be great for writers like me, who could — if allowed to — write 7 different options for the last chapter, because we can't decide how the book should end, and 15 different versions of the first paragraph, because we keep tinkering with the wording. Can't wait!

By: Mary Witzl

Mary Witzl — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:40:20 +0000

Part of me likes the idea of choose-your-own-adventure books; part of me wonders how many paths you'd need to write. I can see the future fragmenting into endlessly branching-out roads, all going entirely different places, every different path sparked by the tiniest divergence in choice. It makes me feel a little breathless. Given that, I'm not sure I could have coped at age 11.

By: Delilah S. Dawson

Delilah S. Dawson — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:29:23 +0000

Okay, so now I just need to write a query that says:
To Whom It May Concern,
I am writing to ask if I may possibly query you regarding a book that I am thinking about writing called CAUTIOUSLY SELECT THE EASIEST PATH. I think it will make an excellent movie and line of action figures. I have already copywritten the unwritten book, just in case. Please contact me in my bomb shelter with your offer of representation.

...and somewhere, Janet Reid is throwing up a little.

By: DGLM

DGLM — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:40:22 +0000

Delilah – Just wanted you to know I'm still cracking up about this comment, even a day later! I think a line of CAUTIOUSLY SELECT THE EASIEST PATH books for anxious children could be a hit!

– Michael

By: Rachel Cotterill

Rachel Cotterill — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:16:35 +0000

As a child, I used to write interactive Choose Your Own Adventure-style stories in BASIC on my dad's (green-and-black screened) computer. I'd love for it to become a real genre.

By: Delilah S. Dawson

Delilah S. Dawson — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:01:44 +0000

I used to love Choose Your Own Adventure books, but I was an anxious child, so I always looked at both choices before making my selection, which basically makes it a "cautiously select the easiest path" book. I wish the grown-up me could go give the childish me an intervention, a cupcake, and a lesson in risk-taking.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:22:41 +0000

Those choose your own adventures have been electronic for a very, very long time.

Here's a documentary with more info:

http://www.getlamp.com/

By: Kim Batchelor

Kim Batchelor — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:43:13 +0000

This is exactly the technology I can't wait to get my hands on. It also adds possibilities to story-telling that I'm really looking forward to.