Arcticacre Dispersed Internet Fiction
Project. by Jason Nelson
THE PREMISE: A
nonlinear, internet dispersed work of fiction.
The ever evolving story of the Arcticacre
family, the five adopted
siblings of the deceased and semi well known
physicists
Albert and Patricia Arcticacre.
STORYTELLING THROUGH THE USER INPUT BOX: Using the many
and varied spaces on the internet where
users can enter their thoughts,
ideas, reviews, images, videos and the like,
The Arcticacres develops
the story of five siblings, Joe, Helen,
Chin, Walter and Belinda Arcticacre,
through their posts, their entries into such
web spaces as Amazon book
reviews, yahoo movie reviews, specialty
interest forums, video sites such
as youtube.com, google
maps etc.
CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT THROUGH
ASSOCIATION: The lives and
development of the Arcticacres
will be largely determined by their
experiences within the sites in which they post,
and their interaction, both
direct and indirect with other users. In
addition, the idea of character voice,
of character profile, must be developed to
establish the tone of their
various posts, and to direct where and how
they post.
HOW TO READ THE ARCTICACRE INTERNET
DISPERSED FICTION: With all
the components of the fiction entered into
forums and reviews on the web,
this work of dispersed fiction will rely on
search engines to make the work
readable. Each post or entry throughout the web
will contain both the term
Arcticacre, then the full name of the sibling
(ex: Joe Arcticacre) and then also
include other fictional places, objects, processes and products.
The main site for the project will have search engine
windows, along with
the search terms to use (the unique name arcticacre, fake product names etc..).
There will also be background information and the
project and brief character
sketches and story line updates via a
minimal/bare Arcticacre blog
on-site.
HOW TO READ NOTE: It is very
likely that some of the sections of the Arcticacre
dispersed fiction will be lost due to other
user’s requests for removal from sites,
out-dated review replacement or simply not being
found by search engines.
An archive of all posts will be kept, along with
selected screen shots to detail
the entire fiction. However this will not
be made available until a year after my
contribution to the Arcticacre
story ends.
ARCTICACRE FICTION PROGRESSION: The fiction will progress daily, with,
on average, four posts throughout the
internet a day. An attempt will be made
to distribute the fiction across the web
through a wide section of special
interests, social groups, and international
sites. In addition, towards the end
of the one year of my contribution to the
Arcticacre dispersed fiction, I will invite
other users, via the same dispersed posting
method to begin extending the
Arcticacre clan. To build on the story using the Arcticacre name.
WHY: Using the search engine as the book,
and the ever growing background
offered by sites incorporating user entered
data to supplement their content,
The Arcticacre Dispersed
Internet Fiction Project hides its stories within the net,
small tales published by a hundred thousand
publishers.