[digital fictions]

Reading Marie-Laure Ryan's Possible Worlds in relation to my chapter 4 - linking and possible worlds in web fictions - I have found my quote of the day:

"not all plots are created equal." (148)

Ryan goes on to suggest that those stories which remain through generations and traverse cultures owe their familiarity to an "intrinsic 'tellability'" (148). Does this mean that online fictions or multimodal narratives have more tellability - i.e. augmented options for performance? Perhaps this might just become the case if we agree with Ryan that

"[m]any events are not told for their own sake but for their illustrative value: their function to fix an atmosphere, outline a milieu, reveal the personality of characters, promote a symbolic or allegorical interpretation" (150).

Testing: Inanimate Alice's "tellability" (from Episode 3: Russia)


Atmosphere:





Milieu:



Character: From this image we come to understand that Alice is not accustomed to hearing arguments:







Additionally, if the reader does not interact at all the required points in the narrative, the story cannot proceed: