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Seven People in My #Transmedia Neighborhood

By On December 11, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Writing

While Twitter has only become even more valuable since then as a professional networking tool, I still look to blogs for deeper engagement, and subscribe to feeds of blogs that offer real value.

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Wrestling With Words: Defining Transmedia

By On September 25, 2010 · 24 Comments · In Publishing, Writing

Ask 5 people what they think transmedia is and you’ll get 10 different answers, all with pretty sound reasoning, most likely based on the industry they work in.

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Don’t Be a Writer, Be a Creator

By On August 20, 2010 · 8 Comments · In Publishing, Writing

And by independence, I mean making a sustainable living, not just self-publishing your book via Amazon or Lulu or Smashwords and declaring yourself an “indie”.

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On Inception, The Passage, and Writing in The Obama Era

By On July 19, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Reviews, Writing

The weakness of “It’s all a dream” — why we hate that, why we feel cheated when narratively anything is revealed to be all a dream — is that you’ve just asked me to spend so much time and emotional capital investing in the stakes of this, and you’ve now swept it [...]

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On Transmedia and Fan Fiction

By On June 4, 2010 · 13 Comments · In Publishing, Writing

For transmedia novelists (and publishers) to retain creative control will require more than a repurposing of content. This might give a ‘taste’ of what transmedia can ‘do’, but for it to work on all levels it must be intrinsically built in and not bolted on.

–Alison Norrington, Transmedia Requires [...]

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