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Talk To Transformer

See how a modern neural network completes your text. Type a custom snippet and see what is generated

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Medium

Write long form articles.

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Adobe Spark

Create beautiful web pages.


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Penzu

Private Diary or Reflective Journal. Emails a useful "nag" message every day, which can be a useful reminder.

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Juxtapose

Create stories that compare maps.

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Polychrome

"Paint" with text, creating pyschedelic textures.


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Meme Generator

Design your own meme, AND get access to the code that make it


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Tome

An A.I tool that creates a slide presentation for you.


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Poetry Generator

Poetry Generator with Markov Chains

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Boords

Boords is the collaborative online storyboard creator.


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Anchor Podcast

Easy way to publish podcasts

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UltraOutliner

Unusual Russian tool for designing interactive narratives or story plots. You enter characters, and locations and plot points, linking them together.

At the end, you can export as a .csv file. 


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Tiki-Toki

Create timelines

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Sway

Microsoft sway is an excellent tool for assembling multimedia into a media-rich article.


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Scene

Create VR stories

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Episode

Interactive fiction platform. Not tried this yet.


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CalmlyWriter

Minimalist distraction-free text editor. For when you just need to get on with it.

This tool also lets you save to Google Drive or to your desktop.


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Storytelling Resources

Huge collection of links to resources and tools related to storytelling.


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Headliner

Really interesting online video maker. I made one from an article I'd written.

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Plotto

Published in 1928, a "A New Method of Plot Suggestion for Writers of Creative Fiction".


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Fridge Poetry

Drag words to make your own poem

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Knightlab Map

Create stories that refer to a map or place.

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Write With Transformer

Start writing and let the unicorn finish your sentences by hitting tab.

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Prezi

Is a fantastic tool to create zoomable presentations. When artfully used you can simply add a heap of pzazz to a simple presentation. 


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SoundCite

Create stories with audio fragments. Great for music analysis.


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StoryboardThat

Create your own cartoons


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Tilda

Create a stylish web site for free.


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Story Maps

An interesting map project, with instructions of how to build your own.


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Models of Interactive Narratives

Nice explanation of how interactive narrative games/experiences can be structured.


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Hobo Lobo Of Hamelin

Interesting, and not entirely successful use of parallax for storytelling

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IFDB

Database of interactive fiction (IF), lots available for free or as apps.


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The Next Rembrandt

Incredible visualisation of sorts of Rembrandt's work

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Sound Effect Story

Simple but wonderful example of telling a story using only sound effects from Freesound.org

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Character Location

Developing a character? Hack the URL to find out where your character is from

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Limeric Night

Limerick-based interactive narrative horror puzzle


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Tell Me Your Secrets - BBC

Interactive graphic novel

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Trouble In Paradise - Nuclear Dissent

Interactive story about the French nuclear tests in Polynesia.


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Significant Objects

Facinating project where objects are given a "story" ... then sold.


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The Unknown

A hypertextual novel, about creating a hypertextual novel


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Map of Stories

Map of Scottish stories. (Faeries, woods, otherworlds etc)


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The Boat

Media rich story about being in a boat in storm.


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Editions At Play

An unusual concept, stories to be read on your phone.

The stories incorporate images from your camera and where you actually are. I found that aspect quite freaky tbh.


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Bandersnatch

Bandersnatch was an interactive movie by Charlie Brooker available on Netflix.

From Wikipedia: In Bandersnatch, viewers make decisions for the main character, the young programmer Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead), who is adapting a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure novel into a video game in 1984.

 

 


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Periodic Table of Storytelling

Really interesting breakdown of story types and tropes.


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Emma's Journey

Interactive narrative about the environment


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Citizens on the Mountaintop

A historical satire of the corporate personhood movement in America, written in Twine.

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HRC Academic Poster Winners

The best from York's Humanities Research Centre

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“Plotto”: Generating Truly Offensive Stories Since 1928

Incredible article covering storytelling, gender and visualisatuon

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Ela-TV

Brilliant, video heavy interactive narrative created with Twine. The story of ELA takes place in a fictive scenario in near-future. In this future the so-called ALGOs are responsible for the administration of cities.


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Ingeritance

Incredible piece of storytelling about a brother lost to the Lockerbie bombing.

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The GPIB Russian Electronic Library

A collection of Russian Futurist books.

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Posteritati

Amazing collection of film posters

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The Structure of Stand-up Comedy

Really interesting breakdown of the text of a comedy performance.


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Microbes

Slightly echo-y animated story about how bacteria affects us


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Best Digital Stories of 2017

Brilliant collection of examples of digital storytelling

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Free Audio Books and Poetry

Huge List of Free Audio Poetry and Audio Books