© Albert Marsolais “Grandpa?” was the first word I spoke. He was standing before me, the two of us surrounded by undifferentiated luminescence. “Yes, Jake, it’s me,” said the last person I ever wanted to see again, my grandpa, the one who’d abused me those years ago in my youth. Was this hell, or a... Continue Reading →
Finding Torrport
Torrport is the virtual reality world we built in The Great Canadian Grid https://www.greatcanadiangrid.ca/ to help us write The Convenient and Jocki MacTavish. We built an even larger virtual world in Kitely https://www.kitely.com/ to write our upcoming novel Skyehag. You are welcome to visit Torrport in person and walk around to experience Torrport as we... Continue Reading →
Creative Storytelling Using a Virtual Reality World
Most fiction authors imagine a world as a setting for their creations, then populate this world with characters who act out their stories. This is not an easy exercise. Authors have faulty memories, and there can be discrepancies in descriptions: for example, in the first chapter, the car was red with chrome bumpers, by chapter... Continue Reading →
Albert Marsolais 