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[labellementeuse]

Guys, I need some help. I'm writing about how web pages and books are structured differently. It's really easy to give examples for non-fiction (I'm probably going to talk about feminism 101 and TV tropes) but I'm really struggling to think of examples for fiction, especially narrative fiction, because all of the best examples I can think of are, of course, fanfiction. I'd really like to find some stuff that demonstrates flexible narration, like Crysothemis' Fix or Cesperanza's Scrabble; I'd also really like something like Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making that includes links to all parts (instead of just before and after parts) on each page, like most Big Bang fics do, for example. (I feel like before and after merely replicate the structure of the conventional book.)

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[labellementeuse]

Not entirely related, but have you read Aidan Chamber's This is All? I think it would possibly work better as a well-constructed ebook than it does as a straight novel. Um, because it isn't a straight novel, I guess - but it does a lot with the going back and forward, reading two texts at the same time, having the protag's essays and poems – having an index!

Actually, that's a really good example. My central thesis is that there's basically nothing a website can do that a physical book can't do too, but that some things - including doing back & forth etc - are faster/slicker/better on web than on paper.