Re: [-empyre-] Writing and Pattern Flows

[angela ferraiolo <aferraiolo@optonline.net>]

Wow is right ... what an amazing exchange. I'm sort of a lurker on this 
list, so hello, my background is some digital writing for games. While 
doing that, I soon realized that the idea of pattern flows and an 
awareness of them is critical. In a game, narrative can be a traditional 
pipeline of information or series of events, but feels more exciting as 
an exploration of modes and/or fields of persuasion. On some level, the 
nature of a given pattern flow, how it updates itself, the feel of its 
evolution, how it alters its methods, can become the meaning of the 
story, a model of experience, even a form of cognition. For me, the 
question is how can these modes be combined in ways that first, feel 
responsive thereby creating expectation and second, create dynamic 
meanings? Writing can't be separated out from pattern flow acquisition 
or a multi-modal pattern production because in a fundamental sense the 
writing that needs to be done in these narratives is the creation of 
those arrangements or the construction of environments that lead to the 
creation of those arrangements. That way we should be able to encourage 
meaning that is emergent due to the interplay of fields or modes and 
their response to audiences/readers/players/etc . . .

-- Angela