So I was doing the reading in Wilber chapter 3. It was slightly monotonous because I have a pretty good understanding of blogs and wiki's (though learning the origins of the terms was pretty interesting). Then I came to digital stories. Have you ever had an awesome idea and then told someone about it and discovered what you thought of already exists? That is what happened.
About 2 years ago I came up with an idea for a book. I wanted to write a horror novel because I seem them as the most challenging media in horror. With a movie, you have the cheap scares of a monster jumping out and saying boo. You also are watching something on a screen and tend to be able to distance yourself from it. The few horror epics I have read that were truly scary suck you in. You immerse yourself in the story. So I said "challenge accepted" and began brainstorming. What I realized was that words on a page was deep enough for me. I was the reader to feel like they were killer in my story or at least knew him intimately. So, I decided that what I wanted was the killer's logs of his murders as he develops his "craft". So, I wanted each chapter to be a log of the entire process of each victim. It would start out with hand written notes about who the victim is, where they live, what their habits are, who they live with, ect. Then he would decide the mode of killing them and experiment with it. If it was a knife, there would be anatomy drawings with notes about effective places to stab or cut. (sorry if this is freaking you out. I really wanted this thing to be scary.)
So cutting to the chase, I realized this had to be a digital media project so I could include photos, hand written notes, and other items. I came up with this ground breaking new form of what a book could be! Then I realized that the internet beat me to it and these already exist. Damn.
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