Micro-Dramas and the Future of Storytelling (Big Issue article)
In a recent article for The Big Issue, I was invited to share thoughts on the rise of vertical micro-dramas and the future of storytelling.
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Plot, Story, Narrative — and What Sleep No More Taught Me About Immersive Experience
In a forthcoming paper by Simon Brind he makes a simple distinction: plot is design, story is experience, and narrative is the sense we make.
Micro-Drama Isn’t a Gimmick. It’s a Signal!
If you want to understand where television might be heading next, don’t start with streamers or broadcasters. Start with micro-drama.
New Podcast Episode Out Now: The Development Room & Idea Evolution (with Emma Millions & Paul Jackson)
In this Creative Media Practice Research Insights episode, Emma Millions and Paul Jackson discuss how creative ideas are pitched and refined.
New Podcast Episode Out Now: Finding the Spark (with Alison Norrington)
In this episode of Creative Practice Research Insights, Alison Norrington explores how ideas emerge, evolve, and gain creative momentum.
The City as Escape Room: place, participation, meaning, affect (Affective Intermediality, Sapientia University, October 2023)
The City as Escape Room transfers the escape room metaphor to a complex layering of place, participation for transmedia storytellers.
How Sociobiology Ruined ‘Story’: A Critique of Reductionist Narratives
Has sociobiology with its focus on evolutionary imperatives which positions storytelling within a purely biological discourse ruined ‘story’?
As We Have Watched: what now arises from a reconsideration of the concept of interactive digital narrative.
We live in a post-Bandersnatch age for interactive digital narrative, by which I mean, its release is a watershed moment.
The Writers Toolbox & Free Writing I
We usually kick off the writing sessions with a creative exercise followed by a little goal setting and brief discussion with partners. This aims to loosen up our creative ideas and to help us focus on what we are trying to do. then the rest of the day we just write. It is a joy let me tell you.