Subcutanean Design Posts

An index to all of my design posts about Subcutanean, in chronological order. I’ll keep this updated with new posts as they go live.

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• Subcutanean: A Novel Where No Two Copies are the Same
  Today I’m pleased to officially announce my next project: Subcutanean, a novel coming to print-on-demand and ebook formats that changes for each new reader. No two copies are ever the same.
• Twisty Little Novels, All Different
  Queneau, Telltale, The Princess Bride, and why you’d write a story that changes each time it’s read.
• A Minimal Syntax For Quantum Text
  How a geeky novelist found a way to write procedural prose without sacrificing the flow of his writing process.
• The Trouble With Transitions
  Why nested logic in procedural prose is unavoidable, and how to pull a single version of an interactive story out from the quantum soup.
• When to Not Trust Dynamic Text
  My book’s text can be rendered millions of different ways. Here’s how I went about ensuring each one of them was perfect.
• Why I Made Subcutanean
  I’ve always loved underground places. How my new procedural novel Subcutanean makes the subterranean a metaphor for living.
• Bonus Rewards and Social Goals
  Find out how to unlock cool new perks and extras by helping get the word out about Subcutanean during the crowdfunding campaign.
• Intentional Collapse: Plausibly Human Randomized Text
  When I wanted to create a novel with random variations in its text, I realized very quickly that “random” isn’t how real writers think.
• 0202–2020: Readings from my book in two parallel universes
  I’m launching two bots, @subcutanean2160 and @subcutanean6621, that will perform readings from different versions of the book simultaneously.
• Generating the Final Books
  A walk through what happens when I invoke the rendering code for a new Subcutanean.

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