Selected Examples of Digital Creativity

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The following works represent a collection on active online creative works, which can serve as inspiration pieces. We have divided this list into the following categories:

Interactive Fiction

A Screenshot of
Trip by Matthew Miller

These works use hyperlinks to give their readers choices within the text. They can be read or explored in a variety of ways.

Dever, Joe et. al. Project Aon. 1 August 2005. 16 November 2005 <http://projectaon.org/>.

Guyer, Caroline, Joyce, Michael and Joyce, Rosemary. Sister Stories New York U P On-Line, 2000. 15 Decmber 2005 <http://www.nyupress.org/
sisterstories/index.html>

Miller, Matthew. "Trip". Journal of Postmodern Culture 7:1 (September 1996). 15 December 2005 <http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy.lib.umich.edu/
journals/postmodern_culture/v007/
7.1miller.html>

Multimedia Digitexts

A Screenshot of
Homestar Runner.com

Multimedia Digitexts take advantage of moving pictures or sounds to help tell their stories.

Homestar Runner. 15 December 2005 <http://www.homestarrunner.com>

Moulthrop, Stewart. Reagan Library January 2000. 15 December 2005 <http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/rl/>

Sloan, Robin & Thompson, Matt. EPIC 2014. 29 November 2005 <http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/>

Audio and Podcast Fiction

A Screenshot of
Forever Fifteen by Kimberley Steele

These works embody the art of storytelling through recorded audio instead of written text.

Audible. 16 November 2005 <http://www.audible.com/>.

Podiobooks. 16 November 2005 <http://www.podiobooks.com/>.

Sigler, Scott. Earthcore. 16 November 2005 <http://www.scottsigler.net/earthcore.html>.

Steele, Kimberly. Forever Fifteen. 16 November 2005 <http://www.foreverfifteen.com/>.

Storyblogs

A Screenshot of
StoryBlog

Unlike conventional blogs that serve as diaries or journals, these authors have utilized the power of blog-style publishing in order to create an online collection of their writing.

StoryBlog <http://jstrande.typepad.com/storyblog/>

Welborn, Amy. StoryBlog: Fiction by Amy Welborn. 20 April 2005. 16 November 2005 <http://amysfiction.blogspot.com/>.

Mack, Steve. Spot Illustration. 9 November 2005. 17 November 2005 <http://spotillustration.com/>.

Gunn, Marc. Bard Marc Gunn. 15 November 2005. 17 November 2005 <http://www.marcgunn.com/poetry/>.

Weasel, Dan. Philosophical Poetry. 12 November 2005. 17 November 2005 <http://danweasel.com/>.

Hyperfiction Sites and Journals

A Screenshot of
ALTX

The perfect place to publish your works, these sites collect and publish digital writing, and many have instructions for creating your own works.

ALTX <http://www.altx.com/>.

Eastgate <http://www.eastgate.com/>

Fray <http://www.fray.com/>.

Fendt, Kurt. 21L.708 / CMS.910 Technologies of Humanism, Spring 2003 MIT Open Courseware. 17 November 2005 <http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Literature/
21L-708Technologies-of-HumanismSpring2003/
CourseHome/index.htm>.

Downloadable Books

A Screenshot of
Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig

The perfect place to publish your works, these sites collect and publish digital writing, and many have instructions for creating your own works.

Ebooks.com. 16 November 20005 <http://www.ebooks.com/>.

Lessig, Lawrence. Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. 25 March 2004. 16 November 2005 <http://www.free-culture.org/>.

Hyperfiction Indeces

These sources provide gateways to additional works of hyperfiction. Unfortunately they are no longer maintained, and many of the links are broken. They do, however, provide a good historical index of hypertext sites.

Joyce, Michael. Online Hypertext Fictions (And Other Collaborative Works). 29 November 2005 <http://www.sunypress.edu/joyce/hypertext.html>

Shumate, Michael. Hyperizons 20 April 1997. 29 November 2005 <http://www.sunypress.edu/joyce/hypertext.html>