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• Ambient Literature…
  • Architecture
  • Audio
  • Liminal spaces
  • Maps
  • Space
  • What can distract
  • Writing
• Choose your structural grammar
  • Games design is huge
  • Labels and roles
  • More than one genre
  • Novels need print
  • This is what it feels like
  • Would I do this again?
• How did we get here?
  • Exeunt Book
  • Skeuomorphism and remediation
  • What has been done?
  • Where are we now?
• Introduction
  • The stories we miss in digital
  • The stories we tell in digital
• Serial Fiction
• This is not a book
• The Form of the Thing
  • Don't get seduced by adaptations
  • The Medium Matters
  • The problem with comments
  • What is a book?
  • So, what is digital writing?
• This is not a disruption
  • Don't be framed
  • Ebooks: the stillborn hybrid
  • Everything is digital
  • Paradigms and practice
  • The Print Paradigm
  • Debating a paradigm is pointless
  • The three strands of digital
• Transmedia
  • Fan fiction is what Transmedia wanted to be
  • The Problem of the Primary Platform
  • Unchapters and Raw Sharks
• What do Books do?
  • Curating your reader
  • The House of Leaves Memo
  • Let’s talk about Hybridity
  • Affordances
  • The artful object
• What does the reader want?
  • Agrippa
  • Choose your own adventure
  • What is a digital book?
  • Why do we want to write for a digital platform?
• What does the writer want?
  • Choose your context
  • Choose your own cliché
  • Don’t go it alone
  • Early obsolescence
  • Escalating requirements: cyanide for projects
  • Digital is expensive
  • So, how do you find your team?
  • Digital is hard
  • If you are not a writer
  • Neoteric
  • This is not a book
• So, what is digital writing?
  • All writing has an audience
  • Build big things out of the small
  • Critics are useless
  • You cannot, and never should, ‘digital’ something for someone
  • Expect to fail
  • ‘Hackathons’ aren’t useful
  • Iterate away from things, not towards them
  • Iterate in public wherever possible
  • Digital writing is messy and full of seams
  • It’s fine not to know what you’re doing
  • Finish and publish things
  • Audiences on the web are or become communities
  • Copy the tourist trade: make snapshots and souvenirs
  • Version control, please!
• Writing a Fugue
• Writing in the age of the web