• ARG,  Fiction,  Immersive Fiction,  Joan WIlder,  Personal Effects,  Pixelvixen707,  Romancing the ARG

    Romancing the ARG

    Move over Joan Wilder. Can you picture  two romance novelists sneaking in to rummage through the patient files in a psychiatric hospital? Sound like a plot for a novel?  It was real even if the hospital wasn’t. There was so much stuff in Zach’s files, Kelly and I decided to tackle it together. She divvied up the tasks. Kelly was supposed to handle anything in French. I was supposed handle everything else. We haven’t found anything in French yet. The contents were creepy. I’m not much of a phone person (I use maybe 8 minutes a month on my cell) but when Kelly offered to be in charge of looking…

  • ARG,  Fiction,  Immersive Fiction,  J.C. Hutchins,  Persona Effects,  Pixelvixen707,  Story telling,  writing

    Putting my keyboard where my mouth is

    I wasn’t going to do this. I was watching my step, trying to stay away from places that might contain rabbit holes. I know I blogged about PixelVixen707 and I think I mentioned it is part of an alternate reality game that is part of a novel that will be released in June — Personal Effects: Dark Art by J. C. Hutchins. But I had no intention of getting involved in the game. Why? Because once I get hooked into things like that, they nag at the back of my mind until I solve the problem. I can’t put them down. That and I’m more into romance than thrillers. So…

  • ARG,  Blogging,  Character Blogging,  Coffee,  Fiction,  Immersive Fiction,  ImmersiveFiction,  Virtuality,  writing

    The unreal are among us

    How carefully do you read the profiles of bloggers when you stop by their page? If you’re like me, you’re focused on what they have to say and occasionally you’ll dig further to learn more about them. Maybe we should rethink that. Here’s why: Name : Tatum McGarland Age: 32Gender: FemaleOccupation: Grief Counselor Blog: Under the Bridge But not really. She’s a character in an online Serial: A Timely Raven Or this one seems sweet and tragic: My name is Alyse Hanssen, I’m 30 years old, and I need help finding my brother. On December 7th, 2007 my kid brother Teddy Hanssen disappeared. Missing Teddy Hanssen Teddy and Alyse aren’t…