Reading Time: 5 minutes If you’re a writer interested in finding out more about immersive entertainment – discovering how your audiences can be immersed and play an active part in your story – then we have a great series of specialist immersive writing guides made available to The Writing Platform by Portal Entertainment and the Immersive Writing Lab team…. Read more »
Article Archive: Resource
A Writer’s guide to online discussion forums
Kristen Harrison, The Curved House
Reading Time: 3 minutes Discussion forums or “chat rooms” are online websites where people engage in conversations around particular topics in the form of a question and answer style thread. A chat room is similar, except the conversation happens in real time. The principles are broadly the same for both forums and chatrooms so this article should give you… Read more »
The Writing Platform Bursary – Supported by the NALD Futures Fund
Reading Time: 2 minutes The Writing Platform Bursary, supported by the NALD Futures Fund, is designed to support inter-disciplinary learning and collaboration between writers and technologists. The fund will support two one-off bursaries of £3000. Each bursary will be allocated to a project team, consisting of one writer and one technologist, who will work on a jointly-conceived digital literature project… Read more »
A Quick Guide to Facebook
Kristen Harrison at The Curved House
Reading Time: 4 minutes Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites globally, with a little over a billion users worldwide (as of September 2012). If used properly, Facebook can be an invaluable marketing tool for authors. What kind of Facebook Account do I need? There are two main types of Facebook presence: 1) Personal Profiles A… Read more »
A Writer’s Guide to Metadata
Michael Bhaskar
Reading Time: 4 minutes Serendipity is the great unsung hero of publishing. We can never be sure of the precise value arising from chance encounters in bookshops, the flash of a good jacket catching the reader’s eye, igniting the purchase instinct so that before they know it they’ve bought another book. We’ve all been there; we’ve casually browsed, and… Read more »