Narrative

We’ve talked about different ways that media and the internet have changed storytelling, and that basically textual narrative hasn’t changed in that the author cannot directly connect to the reader. I disagree. I am an avid reader of fanfiction online. Sites such as fanfiction.net, sugarquill, derbyshire’s writing guild, and open scrolls allow writers to take their own stories (admittedly using characters and/or plots, settings, etc. from the original author) and, building off of an established canon, make something new.
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Having just completed reading the Introduction to Avatars of Story, I find myself brimming with questions about it. Of particular interest are the 4 types of "current" theories concerning the impact of the computer on the idea of narrative.
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