Anybody interested in writing interactive fiction? I've just discovered, via Simon Kewin, one of the W1S1 founders, inklewriter, which is designed specifically for writing interactive, text-based fiction. Excitement!
That's neat. But I wouldn't know where to begin with an interactive story. Would you write it like a 'choose your own adventure'?Anybody interested in writing interactive fiction? I've just discovered, via Simon Kewin, one of the W1S1 founders, inklewriter, which is designed specifically for writing interactive, text-based fiction. Excitement!
Yeah, that'd probably be the main way you'd use it. I think the makers of inklewriter specialize in games, so i'm guessing (even with all my enthusiasm, i haven't had much of a chance to play, yet) you could structure your story similar to an interactive game.That's neat. But I wouldn't know where to begin with an interactive story. Would you write it like a 'choose your own adventure'?
*This is an example of the ironclad tactic of telling the editor of an anthology that your story is rubbish before you even submit it. I don't see how it can fail!
Except when the editor doesn't own a cat. Should take a footnote from the Dune movie: poison the editor, the only known antidote has to be milked from a cat--which you'll only provide if they accept your story.Nothing can possibly go wrong.
Editor? Where?? *hides*
I have revised my submission cover letter. It is now this:
Nothing can possibly go wrong.
Received an odd email this morning. Editor from Phantom Drift was asking for 1,700 Euros 'cause he'd lost his wallet.
I wonder if there's any shame to using submitters' emails as your personal mailing list. Not to mention, something like this would never work due to diffusion of responsibility.
Ah, I hadn't heard about that. I just thought this editor was kind of pathetic. No, I don't have any other means to contact the guy. Heck, I'd forgotten about the zine until now.Almost certainly his account password was compromised, and the email was sent to everyone in his inbox/outbox/address book. This is a fairly common scam, with variants about being mugged on vacation, etc.
If you have some means of letting the editor know outside of the compromised account itself, it might not hurt to drop a gentle note.
Ah, I hadn't heard about that. I just thought this editor was kind of pathetic. No, I don't have any other means to contact the guy. Heck, I'd forgotten about the zine until now.
Pretty sure it's not my email; I do not put my email out there on the web. It came from the editor's account and had his name on it.Yes, very common scam. I know a few people who have received e-mails like that. Most of them I've heard of have happened via Facebook hacking. It's possible that either your account or his somewhere on the web has been compromised. If you have any suspicions that your e-mail was hacked or if you posted on any forum about your submission (especially Facebook) you might want to consider changing your password. Seems to usually be a one-shot try to get money and honestly that one sounds like a form-letter sort of hacking, cause who would ever say an editor lost his wallet and needs money?? Usually it uses the name of a friend or acquaintance.
So someone hacked their yahoo email, knowing it'd have a list of contacts from submitters, then went on a spamy rampage.If you have any questions, contact Managing Editor:
Ah, just clicked send on my 50th submission. Nice little milestone to make me feel like a real writer.
Ah, just clicked send on my 50th submission. Nice little milestone to make me feel like a real writer.
I wish I'd thought about tracking stuff like that. I have no idea how many times I've sent things out or how many acceptances I've had either for that matter.