Comments on: Can You Write “Mifiction”? http://www.dailywritingtips.com/can-you-write-mifiction/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:11:50 -0500 hourly 1 By: Maeve http://www.dailywritingtips.com/can-you-write-mifiction/comment-page-1/#comment-199835 Maeve Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:57:05 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3600#comment-199835 Richard, Books are not the cult objects for young people that they are for my generation. I have walls of books in my house. I shudder to think of the piles of money they represent. In a very few years they will be no more than quaint reminders of the days before mobile phones and electronic readers. They'll probably finish in the landfill. Scrolls used to be big. The end is nigh for the codex. :-) Richard,
Books are not the cult objects for young people that they are for my generation. I have walls of books in my house. I shudder to think of the piles of money they represent. In a very few years they will be no more than quaint reminders of the days before mobile phones and electronic readers. They’ll probably finish in the landfill.

Scrolls used to be big. The end is nigh for the codex. :-)

]]> By: Maeve http://www.dailywritingtips.com/can-you-write-mifiction/comment-page-1/#comment-199833 Maeve Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:50:30 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3600#comment-199833 Paul, I forwarded your question to the contest sponsor. The answer is <b>"My-fiction."</b> I was pronouncing it the other way. I guess one must think "iPhone." Paul,
I forwarded your question to the contest sponsor. The answer is “My-fiction.”

I was pronouncing it the other way. I guess one must think “iPhone.”

]]> By: Richard Nelson http://www.dailywritingtips.com/can-you-write-mifiction/comment-page-1/#comment-199697 Richard Nelson Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:58:35 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3600#comment-199697 These stories raise some interesting issues around creating an interactive story that also has a well written plot. As I work in education I am very interested in trying this method of story telling, to help get messages across to the young learners who are attached to their mobile phones. The 'Digital Planet' podcast, from the BBC World Service has just covered this topic by following developments of a literacy campaign in South Africa. The Episode is dated 27/10/2009 at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/science/2009/03/000000_digital_planet.shtml The idea was to increase young people's involvement in reading, however one interviewee stated that she enjoyed the mobile story, but she would not go to the library to read a 'real' book. These stories raise some interesting issues around creating an interactive story that also has a well written plot. As I work in education I am very interested in trying this method of story telling, to help get messages across to the young learners who are attached to their mobile phones. The ‘Digital Planet’ podcast, from the BBC World Service has just covered this topic by following developments of a literacy campaign in South Africa.

The Episode is dated 27/10/2009 at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserv.....anet.shtml

The idea was to increase young people’s involvement in reading, however one interviewee stated that she enjoyed the mobile story, but she would not go to the library to read a ‘real’ book.

]]> By: Paul Russell http://www.dailywritingtips.com/can-you-write-mifiction/comment-page-1/#comment-199429 Paul Russell Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:14:51 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3600#comment-199429 How, I wonder, does one pronounce mifiction? My-fiction, or miff-iction? --paul How, I wonder, does one pronounce mifiction? My-fiction, or miff-iction?

–paul

]]> By: Shirley http://www.dailywritingtips.com/can-you-write-mifiction/comment-page-1/#comment-199424 Shirley Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:09:18 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=3600#comment-199424 Ah yes, I remember those, Choose Your Adventure books. Ah yes, I remember those, Choose Your Adventure books.

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