Why have we come up with the idea of publishing fiction on mobile phones and making those stories interactive?

Well we were concerned from our own experiences of seeing in our own children how reading books seems to drop off quite a bit in the teenage years – and how technology on MMS, facebook messaging and texting really takes its place. We wondered what we might be
able to do to encourage teenagers to read – but without forcing them of course. It seemed reasonable to get stories onto the devices that they carry with them every day and use seemingly all the time – and with teenagers that’s the mobile phone. And once we were getting stories onto mobile phones it seemed reasonable again to make use of those phones extra facilities and make the stories interactive, using hypertext links between story sections
to allow the reader’s to make the choices as to where they go and what they do through the story.
And that’s how Mobile Interactive Fiction – mifiction – was born. With support from Cibas (Creative Industries Business Advice and Services) at Portsmouth we have taken the technology through to the stage where we are up and running and need content from exciting new writers to go forward. So visit www.mifiction.co.uk and enter the competition – it’s free to enter, you could win a prize and be offered a publishing opportunity so there’s
nothing to lose.