Transmedia Writing

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-Thor #7

TMW Hall of Fame: Nightmares 

In Lizbetsy Rivera Goveo’s original story Nightmares, “sleep-deprived artist Aspen Lanner sets off to find the location that's been haunting him in his dreams.”

For her transmedia project, Lizbetsy created Aspen’s in-story journal on Tumblr, chronicling his dark dreams as recommended by his therapist, Ms. Nelson. (Aspen also has a working email address posted at the top of his Tumblr, so feel free to send him some words of encouragement.)

As Aspen’s journal entries reveal, Ms. Nelson’s digging may actually be getting somewhere...until one little comment changes everything — when you get to Aspen’s most recent Tumblr post, “Sin,” be sure to click through the “notes” section below it and follow him through the looking glass....

TMW Hall of Fame: Traci Dream / Singabots

In her upcoming graphic novel Midnight City Kill, Sarah Moore tells (and draws!) the tale of “an A.I. powered robot assassin bought by a wealthy investor and contracted to hunt down the leader of an infamous terrorist group.”

For her transmedia project, Sarah brought to life one particular corner of Darwin City, her story’s domed American metropolis: Traci Dream, one of five android “Singabots” who rules the pop charts in 2163... but will the cracks in her candy-colored surface reveal a darker truth underneath?

Check out the in-story Twitter, Instagram, and SoundCloud — all featuring original visual art by the author — for more clues on Traci’s digital degeneration.

TMW Hall of Fame: Soul Sisters

In Elizabeth Daugherty’s comedic urban fantasy Soul Sisters, a psychic and a witch struggle against pressure from their superiors at The Council — a government organization covering supernatural and paranormal crimes — while attempting to solve a brutal murder. 

To bring the world of titular “Soul Sisters” Sabima and Crystal to life, Elizabeth created a website for their fictional business, complete with a working phone number (857-301-7154) and interactive map of some of their favorite paranormal hotspots in Boston.

TMW Hall of Fame: Criminal Release 

“After a body is found on an aircraft headed for Florida, the Seattle detective team must figure out what happened and who the killer is before time runs out.”

That’s the premise of crime fiction short “No Fly Zone,” which author Cambria Schenck has expanded and brought to life here in the form of Criminal Release, a whistleblower website with a responsive email and video interrogations, published by an insider who suspects a cover-up...

TMW Hall of Fame: SoulFinder

Alaina Scott brought the near-future sci-fi world of her short film screenplay Soul Searching to life with Tumblr and Instagram accounts for SeoulMates LLC, the fictional company “dedicated to helping you find your soulmate using physics, not questions relying on others’ honesty.”

If you send an email (available in the links section of the Tumblr), you may even receive a response from a certain Head Scientist!

Spotted on Twitter: Classified newspaper ad for a “LIVE-IN NANNY” with a working phone number — part of an immersive, in-story promo for The Haunting of Bly Manor, a new Netflix series based on The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

If your phone plan doesn’t happen to cover calls to the UK, not to worry — Twitter user @TheDiaryofJacob was kind enough to post a recording of the creepy voicemail message here:

https://twitter.com/TheDiaryofJacob/status/1298704725727158274

“The wildly popular series is coming to downtown Los Angeles this October. Stranger Things: The “Drive-Into” Experience promises to offer a “groundbreaking live experience” that will bring viewers inside the series without them having to go outside their car. It’s a creative format for the current COVID-19 world we live in.

“I said [to NIDA], ‘What if we made a play about a love triangle, only it's also musical chairs because there are six people moving in and out of three bodies?” Stewart said. “‘And also it's not in a theatre, it's on Twitch. And, oh yeah, the audience gets to interact with everything in the show, including the props?’ And amazingly, NIDA said yes! And now all these incredibly talented actors and crew are making it real.”

“It was someone in Florida who came up with the idea, creating an online inventory system, and using Zoom to play escape rooms:

“When Covid19 rendered many artists, writers, and freelancers in the entertainment sectors unemployed and under-employed, Green Door Labs resurrected the ASPMC [American Society for the Protection of Magical Creatures] and brought it into the 21st century to serve as a home for “original, story-based online puzzle hunts”. Under the game’s framework, the ASPMC sends players on family-friendly, modular missions that can be played independently, but also fit within a singular shared storyworld that is accessible to all. Initially funded through a Kickstarter campaign, the society’s first mission went live in late July, with two more missions slated to follow in the coming months.”

“Follow several Doctors across space and time as they defend their home planet from a terrible race, this is a story like no other…

Time Lord Victorious is a brand-new multi-platform Doctor Who story told across audio, novels, comics, vinyl, digital, immersive theatre, escape rooms and games!

Delos Destinations

“Leave your world behind. Live without limits.”

“There is currently a very spooky pulsating object on Frictional Games' website - and judging by the page name, I think it's safe to say this is about a new game. But what is that thing? An eyeball, frogspawn? Who knows.