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I've just discovered a great resource for online writers, created by Dennis Jerz at Seton Hill University. Electronic Text: Writing Tips puts a lot of good links on one page.
Whether you're interested in Webwriting, email, or writing interactive fiction, you'll find something useful here.
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Jakob Nielsen: Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity
Nielsen is a pioneer in this field, and always worth reading.
Steve Krug: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Lively and readable!
Editors of EEI Press: E-What? A Guide to the Quirks of New Media Style and Usage
When you can't make up your mind about email or e-mail, this usage handbook can help.
Jonathan Price: Hot Text: Web Writing that Works
Perhaps the most exhaustive discussion on writing for the Web in its many forms.
Nick Usborne: Net Words: Creating High-Impact Online Copy
Passionately argued introduction to writing sales copy for the Web.
Mario R. Garcia: Redesigning Print for the Web
Emphasis is on adapting newspaper stories to Web sites, but the principles apply to other print media as well.
Rachel McAlpine: Web Word Wizardry A Net-Savvy Writing Guide
Lively guide to writing for the Web, with some clear technical advice as well.
The Fall of the Republic
In a parallel timeline, 1990s America discovers the chronoplanes: parallel worlds at different points in history.
Rogue Emperor
The hijacking of the Roman Empire, 100 AD, by 21st-century Christian fundamentalists, in the second of the Chronoplane Wars novels.
The Empire of Time
My first novel, published in 1978, but the last in the Chronoplane Wars trilogy.
Gryphon
"Write a space opera," my editor said. So I did, with some nanotech thrown in.
Tsunami
A companion novel to Icequake, set mostly in California.
Icequake
A disaster thriller (Antarctic ice sheet surges into ocean), dated but still fun.
Eyas
Originally published in 1982, and still the novel I'm most proud of.
Yowza. It may be a great resource, but it's got an appalling design. It's a link-fest, and gives me very little information about the relative importance of the links. Plus, it's an organizational nightmare. For example, why is there both a FAQ and a 'Tips and Guidelines' section? That's not to mention the total lack of whitespace.
Still, looks like a useful resource.
Posted by: Darren | February 05, 2004 at 10:15 PM
Crawford, thanks for the plug, and Darren, thanks for your feedback -- I do feel that my strength in electronic media is in writing, so I'd much rather hear "great content, design sucks" than the reverse.
This is actually just one small section of a large website, and the FAQ isn't realted to writing e-text -- it's mostly related to my role as a teacher, and it's made up of questions that people (mostly my students) have really asked me.
By the way, Darren, I enjoyed your column on classic computer games(http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/creative_writing.htm),, and if you can give me the full citation info I will include it in my "Annotated Bibliography of Interactive Fiction"
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/bibliography/jour-lit.htm#2-2
"Adventure" was definitely available outside of MIT. I have a brief history of "Colossal Cave Adventure" online -- if you can stand the design ;) I've worked more diligently on the index page for my text adventure game section -- do you feel it does a better job organizing the material? I personally feel the links are too hard to find, but it's certainly a different layout than the e-text page.
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/index.html
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/canon/Adventure.htm
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/canon/Zork.htm
And finally, since I notice you're not only into interactive fiction but also theater, you might enjoy my review of Andrew Clarvoe's play PICK UP AX.
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/clarvoe.htm
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz | February 06, 2004 at 06:14 AM
Also check out more web writing tips from Rachel McAlpine in New Zealand ( http://www.qwc.co.nz/ ) and Anne Pepper here in Vancouver ( http://www.pepperwriting.com/editors/editors_intro.htm ).
Posted by: Derek | March 04, 2004 at 01:06 PM