Goodreads asked Lyle Skains:

What are you currently working on?

Lyle Skains I'm currently working on an experimental format: hyperfiction in e-Book form. I've been a prose writer all my life, but in my research I'm really interested in how digital media affect storytelling. Plenty of other writers and artists have created these amazing digital stories on many different online platforms, but they're so disparate and far-ranging that not many people are familiar with them. I rather shamelessly want to sell stories (while still being "writerly"), so for both the sake of creative experimentation and the sake of my research, I'm trying out just a teensy bit of digital experimentation by using hyperlinks in e-Books.

The current project is to publish several short stories, or "hyperfictions", to try it out, and then move on to a full-length novel. I want to see how people react, and whether it's a viable genre of narrative from both the writer's perspective and the audience's viewpoint.

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