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What happened at our Digital Friday event in November




For November's Digital Friday morning event we combined creative writing with technology, and introduced a group of Surrey writers to interactive fiction and more specifically Inklewriter http://www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter/. The session received very positive feedback from those who attended. If you'd like to find out more about interactive fiction and Inklewriter please read on.

Interactive fiction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_fiction  is a genre of writing that allows the writer and reader to branch off in different directions with a story, rather than keeping to a single path.

Inklewriter is a free story writing software tool allowing anyone to write and publish interactive stories. It is ideal for anyone wishing to combine creative writing with computer skills or those who wish to try more interactivity with their writing.
Once written, you can share your stories with the world as each story is given its own webpage. 

Inklewriter help pages and tutorials:

www.inklestudios.com/inklewriter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9eozT427qI
http://teachinghistory.org/digital-classroom/tech-for-teachers/25775
 
Useful Resources

A wide range of free creative writing courses are available through "Universal Class", which can be found on Surrey Libraries Online Reference Shelf: http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/libraries/reference
Or try these books:
Mokhtari T (2015) "The Bloomsbury Introduction to Creative Writing"
Hamand M (2014) "Creative writing exercises for dummies"
Miller C (2008) "Digital Storytelling: A creators guide to interactive entertainment"
Page R, Thomas B (2011) "New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age"
Montford N (2005) "Twisty little passages: An approach to interactive fiction

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