{"id":308,"date":"2003-06-12T08:14:24","date_gmt":"2003-06-12T08:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=308"},"modified":"2003-06-12T08:14:24","modified_gmt":"2003-06-12T08:14:24","slug":"i-wish-i-were-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/308","title":{"rendered":"I wish I were in Arizona."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m making up for the fact that I couldn&#8217;t make it to this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dstory.com\">Digital Storytelling Festival<\/a> by poring over my old copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0262631873\/\">Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace<\/a> by Janet Murray.  Dr. Murray is one of the professors at the MIT <A href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/cms\/\">Comparative Media Studies<\/a> program, which is looking better and better to me all the time.  The first time I flipped through this book, it didn&#8217;t do much for me &#150; in part because I was coming at digital storytelling with my designer&#8217;s glasses on.  Now I&#8217;m approaching it from a writer&#8217;s perspective, and the book is much more satisfying.  An intriguing read.<br \/>\nI also finally picked up a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0823010279\/\">The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics<\/a> by Dennis O&#8217;Neil, which is really quite cool.  It has a number of tips good for <i>any<\/i> kind of writing or storytelling, touches on Aristotelian drama theory, and, basically, argues that if the finest writing advice available is to &#8220;write tight&#8221;, no other form of writing can compare to comics.  I am inclined to agree&#8230;  Definitely a genre I want to take a crack at sometime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m making up for the fact that I couldn&#8217;t make it to this year&#8217;s Digital Storytelling Festival by poring over my old copy of Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet Murray. Dr. Murray is one of the professors at the MIT Comparative Media Studies program, which is looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-4Y","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}