WORKSHOP: INFINITE NARRATIVES WITH THE NIS SYSTEM

The I Ching can tell you possibles futures. Depending on how 3 coins land in a series of tosses, you'll get a different fortune - stories of how you should or could procede. And in the classic Arabic nights, every night the sultan hears a different story. These are examples of multilinear texts. In this workshop you will create multilinear story that have so many different possibilities as to seem nearly infinite. We'll do this using Non Infinite Stories, a dynamic electronic publishing system that gives each reader their own unique story. For the reader, this means a captivating experience and for the writer, this opens possibilities of new storytelling with the combinations of specific fragments. The workshop is open to everyone without writing or technological skills. Technology is creating the opportunity to explore our creative ideas in ways previously unimaginable. In this workshop, you'll learn about the creative possibilties of Quantum Narratives and what it means not only for you as a writer, but also for the future of narrative storytelling.