CineFiction: CineFiction

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

CineFiction

When I began this narrative experiment, I struggled with what to call it. I settled on Stories In Overdrive, never totally happy with it. Early this morning, on the week of my retirement, I came up with something I like better: CineFiction. Writing for the screen of the mind. Visual writing, vertical writing ... shown on your mental screen. CineFiction.

Okay, you writers out there, get with it and establish this as a new narrative form. The baton is passed.

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UnknownSeptember 22, 2017 at 7:31 AM
This sounds fascinating, but I can't seem to find any of these examples... I must be missing something obvious...
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Charles DeemerSeptember 22, 2017 at 9:10 AM
Will send you one if you provide email address.
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Duncan, a computer programmer made homeless after losing his job, finds a corpse near where he camps. He steals the man's identity, and for a short time he has a new life. Then the FBI shows up -- the corpse was on the witness protection program, getting ready to testify against the mob. Duncan runs and starts a new life again in a small town in Utah. He falls in love. But both the FBI and mob track him down and have plans for him. Can he play one against the other and try this new life business one more time?

A modern retelling for the digital age of the Dickens classic. Mrs. Cratchit has had it with her husband's boss. Bob Cratchit is a wimp, and Scrooge is a tyrant. She decides to teach him a lesson about the meaning of Christmas. With the help of her brother Charles, a computer whiz, she embeds the old man's business computer with video and audio. At midnight his computer comes to life, with slide shows and video, ghosts and spirits, scaring him to death. All the charm and heart of the original in a new digital environment!