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I have spent the past two years working on what I refer to as a novel, but which exists only online in a somewhat encyclopedic format. The first "chapter" is the initial page of the website, and from there anybody interested in reading on will do so via hyperlinks linking to different stories, scenes, definitions of objects, character profiles, and various other forms of literature. There is an end at which the narrative can be said to conclude, but it is not advertised as an end and will only appear as such to those readers who have invested their time and interest in my work (I realize I'm unlikely to find much of an audience for this however). So far I have written 120,000 words (carefully edited) and because of the format of my novel I can expand as much I'd like, though of course I write this with potential readers in mind so don't want to inflate it too much. It is not genre fiction (or at least I have attempted to direct it away from such a classification) and does not involve much supernatural elements, in the sense that everything that happens is possible, despite seeming highly unlikely at times. The central subject of the novel is virtual reality, a subject I have researched intensely for the past five years.

>> No.7100958

TempleOS rocks, and I love how the open source community has embraced it to the point of adding software

An extremely low-tech OS made by a single mentally ill man is slightly improved by high-tech workers? No-one could have predicted that.

>> No.7100964

>>7100953

Ambitious, but you're losing a lot of your control when you let the reader choose what they want to read, and when. It might come out as messy and confusing.

>> No.7100972

>>7100964
May be the point

>> No.7100984
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>>7100953
So what do you want to ask? Or do you just want to show you're into hypertext literature?

>> No.7101000

>>7100964
Yes I agree though I willingly relinquish that control to the reader. I do not wish to be named. My only ambition is to make sure every sentence is valuable and that I am providing something which hopefully keeps people entertained for a long time and encourage them to invest themselves in the story I present. It's a risk I know but I am confident it will work. And yes there is a risk it will be messy, as things tend to be when an individual only has themselves to edit their work and so on, but I'm going to spend a long time on this and will make sure everything about it is necessary.

>> No.7101016

>>7100984
I visit /lit/ a lot and thought it may be an interesting topic.

>> No.7101034

I mean, cool? Got a link fam

>> No.7101035

OP here, I have a question also:

At one point in the novel two characters discuss something relevant to the narrative on 4chan (not /lit/), and in order to accommodate this I created a thread a year ago and had a conversation with myself using two laptops with different proxies. Is anybody aware of any legal considerations that might prevent me from incorporating this in my novel by linking to the archived thread?

>> No.7101039

>>7101034
Not yet. I want to make sure everything is perfect before I make it available. Thank you for expressing interest however, it's encouraging.

>> No.7101040

>>7100958
can i run a server on templeos

>> No.7101054

>>7101035
i would highly doubt it

>> No.7101065

>>7101040
You mean, you want to run a HTTP-server on TempleOS? Probably not. You can, however, talk to God. Press <F7> repeatedly after you have made an offering.

>> No.7101069

>>7101065
I recommend ctrl-f1

>> No.7101138

>>7100958
What the fuck. Have you visited the TempleOS website recently?

The guy has posted a long racist anti-government rant on there. Has he been hacked or something?

>> No.7101189

>>7101138
He hung out on 4x2 chan a lot... He even has his own board, there.

I think it had a bad influence on him.

>> No.7101207

>>7101189
Oh damn, didn't know that. I'll check it out, thanks.

>> No.7101215

>>7100953
good luck OP, drop us a link when you think it's ready

>> No.7101229

>>7101215
Thank you and I will. It may be several years however, maybe longer.

>> No.7101295

>>7101138
The programmer has a huge, untreated mental problem. If you watch the videos of his tours it becomes obvious. God told him to make TempleOS. He spent 12 years so far.

Random quote from his page:

>So, I saw a story that said, 'HaHa' killed 'lol'. I was mighty suspicious. It turns-out the CIA is worried about Internet of Things, IoT, getting confused with LOL. I FUCKEN HATE CIA-NIGGERS!!

TempleOS is, to me, true Art Brut.

He's shadow-banned on quite a few forums because he kept on spamming his "offerings from God", strung-together words from the Bible that are randomly chosen based on the current time.

From a CS standpoint, TempleOS implements quite a few unique things - its own dialect of C (HolyC), the shell is also the compiler, a hypertext system that links all of the system's information, etc.

Have a look at this: http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-templeos

From a user's standpoint, the thing is unusable.

>> No.7101363

>>7101295
>TempleOS is, to me, true Art Brut.

Damn never thought of it that way.

>> No.7101522

>>7101035
>any legal considerations that might prevent me from
none.