I decided to delve into the concept of using a wiki to catalogue and organize a fictional world. You can see my efforts here. I seriously can't stop working on this thing. After trying to keep the information I'm cataloguing here straight across an inch-thick stack of looseleaf pages, notes, and postits, it's wonderful to be able to get it all in one place. I'll never have to guess at the name of Ned Grainder's third child or wonder where Isleton was in 818 again. Hurray! I'm just now getting into the real meat of the cast of characters. The only lamentable thing is that I can't really collaborate with someone on this, unlike the project that I would use it as an example for.
I think that this would be an awesome group project. Think of how great a wiki would be to keep track of the backgrounds of a dozen different characters in a story. What if students could collaboratively develop that and then write a story (or stories) using what they'd created?
More to come once I get the reading all done.
4 comments:
Whoa! This is a cool wiki! It is a work of hypertext literature... I wanted to see ALL the links. What is Jennifer like? How interesting --seems you worked on the setting first. I wonder how this writing method compares with other creative approaches... I can't wait to see what "happens" next.
James, your wiki is amazing. There is so much room to grow and expand upon it. It's pretty much on par with Wikipedia itself. Keep it up, man.
My wiki looks small and meek in comparison:( You've done a great job-it's very imaginative.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a great feeling you must have to have accomplished this. Great job!
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