Critical Mass

If you’re arriving here from Novelr, welcome! Feel free to take a look around. Yes, I know that I still need to update the “About” page to take my own advice and acknowledge my membership in the community, but otherwise everything is more-or-less up to date. In any case, I recommend that you check out the quick guide to this place in my “Open for Business” post. If you like what you see and would like to contribute to it, I always welcome guest posts.

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Title: Mirrorfall
Author: Grace McDermott (d.b.a. “Stormy”)
Site: http://www.wibblypress.net

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If you’re reading this, you’ve probably already figured out that this website, Critical Mass, is up and working, so there’s no point in my saying so. However, a couple of annotations are in order.

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by M. Alan Thomas II

Title: Othar’s Twitter
Site: http://twitter.com/Othar
Grade: B+
Recommended for: Fans of Girl Genius, pulp heroes/adventures, and/or narration by friendly, intelligent psychopaths
Database entry: /stories/othars-twitter

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Title: Othar’s Twitter
Author: Phil Foglio et al. (other Studio Foglio staff may contribute but normally don’t; Cheyenne Wright makes occasional posts)
Site: http://twitter.com/Othar

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by M. Alan Thomas II

The following interview was conducted via e-mail with Phil Foglio between 23 January 2008 and 26 January 2008. It is being published here as a sidebar to a review of his webfiction, Othar’s Twitter. Formatting has been applied, the e-mails have been merged into one threaded interview, and there are a couple of silent typo corrections, but it is otherwise a complete transcript of the questions and their answers.

[Main Article: Othar’s Twitter review]

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by M. Alan Thomas II

[Main article: No Uncertain Terms]

Unanswered Questions

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by M. Alan Thomas II

Abstract

This article deals with the terms used to discuss online fiction, particularly serialized fiction. It briefly describes four critical concepts: media, physical structure, logical structure, and serialization. It then uses those concepts to define “online fiction” and three sub-categories, “internet fiction,” “blooks,” and “webfiction.” Finally, it discusses two problem terms, “webserial” and “internet soap opera,” and the problem schemas—formal organizations and category descriptions—or lack thereof used by Wikipedia and the Open Directory Project.

[Sidebar: Priming the Pump]

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Site: ~
Grade: A+ to D-, F
Recommended for: Types of readers who would like the work
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Abstract

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