Oh the Possibilities

Welcome to the companion website and blog for Architectures of Possibilities: After Innovative Writing. AoP is a reversioning, reimagining and rebirth of Lance Olsen's 1998 fiction writing textbook Rebel Yell. AoP is much much more than a new edition updated for a new publishing season or writing moment. It is a new approach to producing creative work in an age dominated by the digit and social media that still yearns to find its way home, back to asking the large questions about why we create stories, why we want to share them, and how we go about the messy yet exhilirating process of translating something electric in our minds into something that others can appreciate.

This website not only provides an overview and digital residency for AoP's print edition, but houses material we couldn't fit into the physical book. Lance and I conducted over 60 interviews with an amazing stable of creative architects---writers, artists, publishers, theorists, programmers and designers---who work at the border areas between disparate media forms like prose, comics, games, programming, sculpture, painting and photography. We couldn't include all of these insightful and inspiring conversations in the print edition, so we are delighted to present them here, along with all of the original interviews from Rebel Yell that were not reprinted in AoP. 

In the future we also plan to bring you audio podcasts featuring discussions and interviews with many of the creatives who appear in AoP, as well as a good number who do not. We see this site as an objective correlative for the notion of "possibility space" explicated in AoP, and we are very excited to build and grow this digital archive alongside the book's adoption and use. 

But most of all, we are simply excited that you are here with us and helping us build upon what we conceive as the grandest of designs: crafting stories into the media that will best carry them forward and best allow us to explore their wondrous possibilities.