RWIntNovels (RWIN) is a community and collaboration site for readers and writers of next generation pieces using the full technology of the web.
Our focus is on introducing relatively new forms of media that takes reader participation to the next level and promotes open/social story authoring. Our story modes are:
Collaborative Story: Writers submit chapters, members vote. Chapters with > minimun number of votes and with at least 80% approval are promoted into canon. All canon chapters are then branching plot points from which additional chapters may added onto.
Of course the unapproved
collaborative story chapters are left in stinking bad story hell. Each story starter may create custom story rules such as min/max length, plot or character regulations, and set story arc.
Interactive Novel: A novel with reader-choices. Use simple web links to create branching plot-lines and interactivity.
The
Interactive Novel mode is easily our most traditional story mode. It's great for old-style writers who want to dip into new media slowly or for authors who don't want to relinquish control.
Sandbox Story: A free-for all wiki story that the community hacks into shape as one.
They say two heads are better than one. Well, maybe. How about a dozen? A hundred? We'll see, an
ongoing experiment that should be fun if not edifying.
Visual Novel: Perhaps better called a combination multimedia interactive ultimate story delivery system. Visual novels typically combine background images with text to tell a story, but may also involve numerous other effects as well. *
The greatest draw of
visual novels is the way every medium is used in its optimal vocation. Pictures combined with words can describe a setting better than words can alone, music can help set the mood, and sound effects from explosions to screaming can much more fully engage the reader. This is all while maintaining the standards of interactivity and collaboration in the above story modes.
* I urge all readers to be as open-minded about what you'll see on this site as possible. Because of the nature of the format we are no longer confined by old limitations of the printing presses, we can and shouuld be be as avant-garde as possible. We must to throw out the old rules and rethink the structure of text. Reviewers, review with not just your common sense and education, but also with your artistic sense and understand whether or not the techniques employed in each piece actually work.
One simple simple example is the use of multipage .... to denote silence. In traditional books using multiple blank pages filled with nothing but ... would be laughable. But in visual novels, where the reader actively advances the story by clicking, multiple page dots become the best way to show dialogue gap.
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