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Speaking of Serials: Shadow Unit

Posted on January 08th, 2008 in Writing

I just saw over at Elizabeth Bear’s blog her announcement of Shadow Unit,

… Shadow Unit is, more or less, the website for a serial drama in internet form. Or possibly it’s a fan site for a TV show that doesn’t exist.

Intriguing details about Shadow Unit are at her blog, and there’s already a little content on the Shadow Unit site.

This project has been in the works for quite some time, apparently, and sounds like it will be quite interesting.

I must have been tapping into idea space, because this announcement came just a few days after I had finished my recent article about writing serials, and just shortly after I had finished the last article in the Writing on the Stage series, which deals in large part with serials.

I heart idea space.

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Writing on the Stage: Coming to Terms with Serials

Posted on January 08th, 2008 in Writing

Jeff Somers’ The Electric Church intrigued me because it messed with my world view. No, no, not the whole “church that converts you by putting you into a cyborg body because eternity is required to properly understand God” thing, I was with that.

No, it was the fact that the whole damn thing was a serial.


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