Post by Tom Abba (@tomabba) on Thu, 19 Mar 15 09:40:40 +0000 View Full Post this is for the delegates at the British Council's Literary Showcase. Full notes: Circumstance: we make cinematic expe...
Post by Tom Abba (@tomabba) on Thu, 12 Feb 15 14:45:41 +0000 View Full Post We get asked for advice several times a year by students, writers, or people just interested in the work we do. This is from a larger chapter on Ambient Literat...
Post by Tom Abba (@tomabba) on Fri, 23 Jan 15 08:40:24 +0000 View Full Post I'm putting this out nervously, as it's a section of the book that is part of the chapter titled "What Books Do", and really needs to be read in conjunction wit...
Post by Tom Abba (@tomabba) on Thu, 08 Jan 15 15:43:44 +0000 View Full Post So. If any of you know how to write music, this is where you pull me to pieces...Writing a Fugue This bit is dangerous. Not because it’s going to explode, or su...
Post by Tom Abba (@tomabba) on Thu, 04 Dec 14 14:57:23 +0000 View Full Post More bookish stuff:Transmedia storytelling. There is much to be admired about Transmedia work, and we’ll celebrate each of them in turn, but as a whole, it’s a ...
Post by Tom Abba (@tomabba) on Thu, 20 Nov 14 13:54:13 +0000 View Full Post What does the writer want? The first, and possibly the most important question that a creative individual ought to ask is what do you want from a digital book...
Post by Tom Abba (@tomabba) on Thu, 30 Oct 14 15:16:41 +0000 View Full Post From the book that @baldurbjarnason and I are writing. In draft. ##What is a digital book? It’s cheating to offer a definition that’s built on absences, but a d...
Post by Tom Abba (@tomabba) on Wed, 15 Oct 14 14:22:06 +0000 View Full Post Who'd have thought that working with digital narrative would mean more scratchy pen work than at any time in the last tw...
Post by Tom Abba (@tomabba) on Thu, 09 Oct 14 07:29:28 +0000 View Full Post So. I did some of this with my PhD, some nine or so years ago. But that was on a blog, and this is different. More feedback, possibly. Also, the people I'm talk...
Post by Tom Abba (@tomabba) on Fri, 26 Sep 14 18:45:11 +0000 View Full Post They put me next to the robots. Given a choice, would you talk about weird wooden books or watch robots...
