Overview
of Computers and Creative Writing
Students and teachers new to the
subject of computers and creative writing may not realize discussions are
already in progress on this issue (click here for
links to listserv and newsgroup discussions relating to computers and creative
writing). Additionally, many students and teachers are unaware
of the diversity of uses for computers in and out of the the creative writing
classroom.
In the classroom, creative writing
can be supplemented by
Outside of the classroom, creative
writers can
Today, traditional approaches to writing
exist alongside exclusively online modes of writing, such as hypertext
fiction. In hypertextual fiction, writers used software such as Storyspace
to construct interactive poetry and fiction. Eastgate
systems is the web's most established publisher of hypertext fiction.