When we think
about digital's effect on storytelling, we tend to grasp for the lowest
hanging fruits: words will move, pictures become movies, every story
will be a choose-your-own-adventure. While digital does make all of this
possible, these are the changes of least radical importance.The
biggest change is not in the form stories take but in the writing
process. Digital media changes books by changing the nature of
authorship. Stories no longer have to arrive fully actualised. On the
simplest level, books can be pushed to e-readers in a Dickensian
chapter-by-chapter format - as author Max Barry did with his latest
book, Machine Man. Beyond that, authorship becomes a
collaboration between writers and readers. Readers can edit and update
stories, either passively in comments on blogs or actively via
wiki-style interfaces. Authors can gauge reader interest as the story
unfolds and decide whether certain narrative threads are worth
exploring.
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For better or for worse, live iteration frees authors from their private writing cells; the audience becomes directly engaged with the process. Writers no longer have to hold their breath for years as their work is written, edited and finally published to find out if their book has legs. In turn they can be more brazen and spelunk down literary caves that would have hitherto been too risky. The vast exposure brought by digital media also means that those risky niche topics can find their niche audiences.
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