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Using Theme to Author Hypertext Fiction

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2016)

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This paper explores the use of a “thematic linking” model to support the authoring of complex, emergent hypertext fiction. Initial observations suggest that while this approach is promising, as it allows authors and readers to discover unexpected connections within a work, it is also potentially overwhelming, due to the second-order nature of the writing process.

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This work was funded under the FASS startup grant “Authoring Paradigms and Representation in Interactive Storytelling Tools”.

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  1. Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Alex Mitchell

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  1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Frank Nack

  2. The Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Andrew S. Gordon

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Mitchell, A. (2016). Using Theme to Author Hypertext Fiction. In: Nack, F., Gordon, A. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10045. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48279-8_41

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