Electronic Writer

JD Salinger

JD Salinger, my writing hero since 1990, has finally passed away from natural causes. Although a recluse, his writing that he actually published had far-reaching implications in my world.

He was the absolute master of what I call, “the two-sentence description” of a character. After those handful of words, you knew everything about that character and additional details simply reinforced that knowledge–rather than revealed character traits. It was, and still is, brilliant writing.

Thank you for the writing lessons . . . .

JD Salinger, author of Catcher In The Rye, dies at 91

Online Tools to support literature-based discovery in the life sciences.

Abstract here: http://www.citeulike.org/user/lilianvt/article/405842

Full article here: http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/6/3/277

Thanks to the wonderful world of technology, you can actually SEE the handwriting and original manuscript from Charles Dickens’, “A Christmas Carol.” Don’t you just love technology sometimes . . . .

http://documents.nytimes.com/looking-over-the-shoulder-of-charles-dickens-the-man-who-wrote-of-a-christmas-carol#p=1

I have always been a mash-up of things including (but not limited to) literature and video games.  In that lovely space between sleep and awake I have envisioned a Tomb-Raider-esque tours through Dante’s “Inferno” and Homer’s “Odyssey,” and espionage games based upon Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.” 

At first, I thought Second Life might provide the answer . . . although the closest that I could find was troupes of Anime fans recreating comic book wars. 

We Tell Stories may be the beginning of something incredible–or, at least something written/created for the target audience where I so happily belong.

Read the review:
Interactive game mixes classic novels with Web 2.0 mashups | Geek Gestalt – A blog by Daniel Terdiman – CNET News.com

Or, play the game:
We Tell Stories