Re: CHAT: Conlang and Writers

On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:50:44 -0500, Mathew Willoughby <sidonian@...>
wrote:

>Besides, there are a lot of things that a writer can do in HTML that
>we can't on paper.  It's so much more convenient to have words from
>conlangs linked to a glossary (instead of having to flip back and
>forth on paper).  It's kinder to trees to publish electronically (every =
time
>I send out a MS I suffer pangs of guilt, and the publishing industry
>reacts violently against anything that minimized the wasting of paper!
>Their lives *would* be easier if they took electronic submissions
>but they're so archaic.) and an electronic format encourages more
>intimacy between reader and writer.
There's an interesting idea. Imagine an illustrated novel with hyperlinks
with more background information for those who are interested, and others
can just skip over them, with music playing in the background, maybe even=
 a
few animations here and there. It would take years to write something =
like
that, but it would be interesting to try something like that. It's been a
long time since I've tried writing anything.

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