Twisty Little Novels, All Different | by Aaron A. Reed | Medium
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Queneau, Telltale, The Princess Bride, and why you’d write a story that changes each time it’s read.
6 min read Oct 7, 2019 -- My upcoming novel Subcutanean is built from procedural text, but it’s not interactive. Each time someone orders a copy, they get a print (or digital) book containing a full-length novel, with nothing in the text itself suggesting it’s anything other than definitive. But no two copies are exactly the same: key scenes, moments, and words will be altered from one to the next. Writing fiction that exist in multiple versions is, of course, common in digital narrative games, where alternate versions exist to create a sense of responsiveness to the player’s actions.…
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