nous sommes hors du mondenous sommes hors du monde - LiveJournal.coma matter of courses- August 29, 2007 I am now through most of my first week of school and I have to say how excited I am and thankful that I decided to apply to go this year, I think I would be going mad without it, having something else to push my brain and encourage me to grow beyond just my own day to day efforts. My schedule is only three days a week, and this feels almost like a vacation, having more free time to read and write, doing something more engaging than work. Of course I know that soon enough this will be filled...http://metatait.livejournal.com/245388.html emergent narrative- August 14, 2007 "Emergent narrative Can there be such a thing as a narrative that emerges, by itself, from a seemingly random or chaotic structure or series of events The way forms, fractal shapes and complex structures arise out of certain kinds of chaos. Are there forms narrative cells I guess you could call them that in sufficient quantity spontaneously give rise to what we call stories If the existence of these things is possible then perhaps emotionally moving arcs, transformations and series of events..http://metatait.livejournal.com/244941.html open endings- August 11, 2007 I have been reading for a long time, pouring through stories at an unprecedented rate since I cold put sentences together, even being precocious enough to read the unabridged version of "Les Miserables" by 7th grade. But up till now, literature has always moved in one direction, from the front cover to the back, and I wrongfully assumed this was the only way to tell a story.In the past several months I've discovered a near infinitude of story telling mechanisms, stumbling through several cases.http://metatait.livejournal.com/244523.html |