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Writing Interactive Fiction with Twine: Play Inside a Story If you ve ever dreamed about walking through the pages of a book, fighting dragons, or exploring planets then Twine is for you. This interactive fiction program enables you to create computer games where worlds are constructed out of words and simple scripts can allow the player to pick up or drop objects, use items collected in the game to solve puzzles, or track injury in battle by reducing hit points. If you ve clicked your way through "80 Days, " trekked through the underground "Zork"kingdom, or attempted to save an astronaut with "Lifeline, " you re already familiar with interactive fiction. If not, get ready to have your imagination stretched as you learn how to direct a story path.
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Melissa Ford is the author of the blog, Stirrup Queens (http://stirrup-queens.com) . She is also a contributing editor at BlogHer. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts--Amherst. You can find her on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/MelissaFordAuthor) . She lives with her twins and writer husband, Josh.
Melissa's books are Navigating the Land of If (Seal Press, 2009) , Life from Scratch (Bell Bridge, December 2010) , Measure of Love (Bell Bridge, April 2013) , Apart at the Seams (Bell Bridge, June 2014) , and Writing Interactive Fiction with Twine (Pearson, coming May 2016) . She is also the author of Nidah, a short story on Amazon. She curses her common name and apologizes for any confusion with the other Melissa Fords on Amazon.
