I've spent the last few days scouring the internet for creative and original online narratives. I started my search the way I presume 75% of the class did. I Googled "creative online narratives" and clicked and linked and clicked and linked until I finally came to something I felt was worth mentioning. It is: http://www.telescopictext.com/This online narrative about making a cup of tea is by Joe Davis (or, as you'll find as you click your way through the the narrative, Joe Michael Lambert Davis) and I like it for the way it quite literally unfolds. It is a simple piece, and even completely unfolded is still simple, but something about the way Davis, (a self-proclaimed illustrator, filmmaker, animator and dreamer,) takes a piece that completely consists of sentence "I made tea" and manages to transform it into a piece that has hardly begun with the sentence "Yawning, and smearing my eyes with my fingers, I walked bleary eyed into the kitchen and grabbed the kettle, unhooking it from the switch, and filled it" makes a writer like me appreciate every little nuance in every little surprising added adjective. My only advice for Davis would be to possibly add some color or images. Simple is good, but something might be needed here to keep it from falling into the danger zone of TOO simple.
One down, two to go....
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