Interactive Narratives

Via e-Literate comes this link to the Interactive Narratives collaborative weblog. (The RSS feed is available here.) Interactive narratives are "informational and storytelling experiences designed and produced for the web." The closing of a small town milling operation provides a powerful example of the possibilities of digital storytelling.

Four stakeholders tell their stories as they move through the grieving process. Hardy's observation as quoted in McDrury and Alterio that "we dream in narrative, daydream in narrative, remember, anticipate, hope, despair, believe, doubt, plan, revise, criticise, construct, gossip, learn, hate and live by narrative", highlights the aptness of narrative for conveying their stories.