NEW MEDIA: Flight Paths
Well I’ve read about Flight Paths here (Mark Bernstein) and there (Steve Ersinghaus) and elsewhere, so naturally went to check it out. It is supposedly a Networked Novel in that it is not only presented online, but others (anyone who registers) may add to via comments, videos, home movies, etc. that may or may not have anything to do with the narrative. Though of course, once it’s there, it becomes part of it, relative or not. I think. And, because I’m a student of interesting developments in literary fields I joined up, notwithstanding the strict rules and regulations of participation that all but wanted me to roll over and play dead.
But I have a problem. As I pooh-poohed the fence that might’ve kept more intelligent folk away and hopped right in, I can’t find the story. I mean, there’s a blog and all, but I can’t find the novel that this project by Writers (and the only two that shall hold that title) Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph.
Maybe I’m just hypertextually deficient. I’ll get back on this.
UPDATE: More links on Flight Path at Grand Text Auto and if: book. And frankly, if everyone is quoting the opening lines of the story I don’t think anyone else found the rest of it either. Really, I’m looking for a bit more of a ‘novel’ than a couple paragraphs towards that end.
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