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In this digital writing project, Penguin UK collaborated with six popular writers—whose work ranges from literary fiction to mysteries to young adult novels—to innovate stories and forms of storytelling that take advantage of the “immediacy, connectivity and interactivity” of online space. In one story, two authors co-wrote the narrative in real time, unfolding it like an intimate conversation; in another, a bird’s-eye map view indicates precisely where the action is taking place; in another, the choose-your-own-adventure trope is enriched as the reader must not only choose an outcome, but also physically move in the corresponding direction. We Tell Stories aims to transform reading fiction into a new kind of immersive experience and elicit a heightened level of interaction with the imaginary.
