Making webfiction explode
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.
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
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
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]
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]
[The title should be “Review: Title of Webfiction (DD Month YYYY).]
Title: ~
Site: ~
Grade: A+ to D-, F
Recommended for: Types of readers who would like the work
Database entry: URL of the database entry here
Body of review[1]
More review[2]
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A short paragraph saying what the article is about
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More article[2]
A conclusion sometimes helps but is not required
[1] A general footnote
[2] A citation
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Body of editorial[1]
More editorial[2]
[1] A general footnote
[2] A citation
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