About Me

Quite honestly my favorite way to brainstorm is to use an Idea File. I feel like, its the best way to brainstorm because my ideas are always changing and flowing out of me. When I am brainstorming I feel like no format will help bring out these ideas better. Below are a few examples of my creativity. I love to listen to music and every now and again I sometimes think wouldn't a song sound better with lyrics mixed and matched with better songs? I was listening to Metallica's version of Misfits Song called Last Caress (the lyrics are explicit so Ill let you look it up yourself). I was thinking what it would be like to sing some lyrics off one of my favorite Iron Maiden songs, "Fear Of The Dark" to replace some lyrics on the Last Caress? I started singing the lyric "Fear of the dark" and I felt like it worked pretty well. This was my first idea and it reminded me brainstorming and mixing and matching could help me be more creative when wri

Hello Everyone! Another week and another Microblog just for you! This week I have been thinking what would it be like to have my own podcast? What should I podcast about? Two very good questions and I feel like I have some good answers to that. Three ideas that come to mind are fictional stories, a journal of myself and things that I find interesting to talk about, plus my opinions. I feel for me, my creative process is always changing, but that makes it a wonderful thing. At this moment I feel it is best to have a theme and or a structure to the things I podcast about. Honestly, I would just have fun with it and see what I would learn from the experience. If I was podcasting a digital story. I would talk about a fantasy story that's kinda like D&D style. I would narrate the characters to engage more with my followers. If I did a  podcast about my life. I would talk about my work, problems and my health issues. I find it important for people to get to know the real me.

Hello Everybody its been awhile! So this week I was thinking. If I had to do a Video blog or story about myself or something I am interested in. What should I do to stand out and make it good? First, let us say for example I wanted to do a let's play video. The current game I have been playing as of late is called Don't Starve Together. It is basically a crafting and survival game where you just simply survive and not let the world around you kill your character. I have been playing with my girlfriend Blood Queen and I was figuring what would be a good way to help beginners to learn the game. So if I was going to do a video blog about my experiences in Don't Starve Together. This is how I would do it. I would begin each video with my very own logo and a short introduction about my channel lets say about 10 seconds long. (It is important for my viewers to know who I am and get the familiarities of my videos.) I would do a beginners video chronicling how to survive

What Makes a good digital Story This week I have been tasked with a new question, that touches upon old ideas. I have been asked, what makes a good digital story? I feel the best stories are the ones told where you get to experience them yourself in 1 st  person point of view. There is not one true structure that is perfect in making a good digital story. I have learned there are many different literary elements and structures commonly used, that come close to an adequate formula for digital storytelling. For me personally, I feel the choose your own adventure and narrative stories are the best methods. I have gone in depth about narratives in the last four weeks. I have commented on the two stories She’s a Flight Risk and The Sick Land. These stories are the ones we can relate to the most because it is almost as if we were them. The way our heroes react in the story could make us imagine as the audience, what would we do in these situations. For example, on She’s a Flight Risk

Hello Everyone This week I played a choose your own adventure type game called  [Text] A Summer Story. It is both a story and an interactive game. A girl named Maya visits her uncle in Japan for a week. She texts him while on the ferry and gets a message from a stranger that has his phone number. It is a boy name Takeshi. He worked for her uncle at the shrine last year. When you get to her uncle's place, the story lets you choose your own actions. You have to play the game 7 times, in order to see the whole story unfold. Eventually, you find out the Takeshi is a ghost accidentally killed by your uncle. Depending on your choices you may or may not find out and you may be killed or killed by her uncle. When you finish one story, you become more interested and want to see what your other choices could have been. You learn more about Maya's Point of View and the Plot that takes center stage in this story. You get her sense of Point of View, as she tells the story in her ow

Hello Again everyone! Today I played an interactive fiction game called Colossal Cave. It reminded me of all the old, choose your own adventure books, I use to read when I was younger. It was a hypertext game, that let you read the story while you input commands, to give your character choices to follow. I admit I had some trouble at first to find out the right commands to use. I personally feel this is a good way to tell a story. Like this and the many narratives, we have read so far, is engaging to certain audiences. According to The New Digital Storytelling. " Unlike a novel, we have no single, linear direction to follow. Instead, reading a hypertext is something like a hybrid of exploring a space" He talks about how we are the authors. We get to make an impact on the narrative. This type of storytelling is different because, in a way, we get to experience the narrative as if we were a part of it. Also since there are so many choices the path and ending can always c