Issue 6: Editorial
Boy oh boy oh boy. The past two weeks have been crazy. Good crazy, bad crazy and wicked cool crazy. Since so much happened, it should be obvious I have lots to announce and ramble about, so grab a coffee or a beer, sit down, and relax.
First things first: the Search Term Challenge held here at Ergofiction has come to an end. Or at least, the fiction has come to an end, and the winners need to be picked. Make sure to vote for your favorites — voting closes at the end of this week! There’s still time to read all the entries, and I can honestly say it is worth your time. It’s a wondrous thing to see how differently the creativity of all these authors work.
Anna has written a small wrap-up of the challenge, including how to vote. So I shall end my gibbering on the topic by thanking the authors who participated — the stories were truly excellent — and the readers who commented and praised their favorites.
It’s already March, which means the Rose and Bay Awards voting has ended and the results are in. Nobody I rooted for won, but I’m sure all the winners are worthy of their victory. I do think the contest was a bit too LiveJournal-based to be a complete Award Ceremony, but I do approve of the effort and idea. A big congratulations to Cecilia Tan whose story Daron’s Guitar Chronicles won Best Fiction Project 2010. You can check out all the other winners here.
Onto some smaller webfiction announcements. Lord Likely is apparently celebrating three years of Astonishing Adventures. To properly celebrate this, his scribe Andy Fanton has managed to convince Darren Craske to cowrite an adventure with him. This is made extra special because after three long years, we can finally find out Lord Likely’s first name!
Tim Holtorf, the author of Black Mask & Pale Rider, has launched another serial called Blood of the Moon, a story of heroism, justice, love and lust. Since Black Mask & Pale Rider is really quite cool, I’d check it out!
Lastly, this week is Read an eBook Week — a chance to “educate and infors the public about the pleasures and advantages of reading electronically.” This is the perfect time to tell all your friends about your favorite webfiction stories and to spread the word about reading online! There’s even a related Twitter account, @ebookweek.
That’s it from me today. Loads of other exciting stuff has happened on both personal and still-secret levels, so I’m currently really, really dead due to overtiredness.
Issue 6: Beyond the Written Word
This week we’re broadening our horizons. Webfiction is great, but written words aren’t the only forms of storytelling online. Of course, the most obvious alternative format is webcomics, but there are many, many, MANY more formats, and this week we’re going to explore a tiny subsection of all that jazz.
On Monday we’ll be traveling into the wonderful world of podcasted fiction, for which we have invited a wonderful mysterious guest author!
On Wednesday, we’ll have our usual Cafe Wednesday interview, along with the standard weekly Webfiction Wednesday overview.
And on Friday, I’ll do my best to introduce you to great gaming narratives, with a focus on some marvellous short online flash games.