Physicians Writing Fiction

Writing the Future: Computers in Science Fiction

Although we cannot be certain that science fiction directly influenced the course that computing technology has taken over the past 50 years, the genre has-at the very least-anticipated the technologies we're using and developing. peculation ahout our future relationship to computers-and to technolngy in general-has limn the province of science fiction for at least a hundred years. But riot all...

Writing Interactive Fiction Scenarii with DraMachina

This paper presents DraMachina, an authoring tool dedicated to authors of interactive fictions. An interactive fiction is an extension of classical narrative media as it supposes a direct implication of spectators during the story evolution. Writing such a story is much more complex than a classical one, and tools at the disposal of writers remain very limited compared to the evolution of techn...

Traditions in Modern Korean Women’s Fiction Writing

Synthetic Literature: Writing Science Fiction in a Co-Creative Process

This paper describes a co-creative text generation system applied within a science fiction setting to be used by an established novelist. The project was initiated as part of The Dutch Book Week, and the generated text will be published within a volume of science fiction stories. We explore the ramifications of applying Natural Language Generation within a cocreative process, and examine where ...

Computational Properties of Fiction Writing and Collaborative Work

From the earliest days of computing, there have been tools to help shape narrative. Spell-checking, word counts, and readability analysis, give today’s novelists tools that Dickens, Austen, and Shakespeare could only have dreamt of. However, such tools have focused on the word, or phrase levels. In the last decade, research focus has shifted to support for collaborative editing of documents. Th...