It has been hard going in my search for interesting literature in the realm of Second Life. There are seemingly endless resources to look through, but few ever pay off, and the world itself is very difficult to navigate through to find interesting things. I am coming to realize that finding out about things that no one I know knows anything about, in a place I know little about is very daunting. I feel like a spy who doesn't know Russian.
I have joined a few new groups, all of them now being - Just Poets, Oyster Bay Sculpture & Aquarium, Penguin Readers, Poetry Guild, Shakespeare & Company, sLiterary, The Blue Angel VIP, and Writers of SL, but a good part of the messages I have been sent are not worth mentioning and not very helpful.
Online I did find an interesting description of a novel that Penguin had made a 3-D representation of in SL. Apparently they took the story of "Snow Crash" and made a 3-D world of the action in SL, which is very interesting, but I can not find a link or location on the internet and I can not find it in SL or using it's search function. But, I do feel that such an examle is very interesting for writers of electronic literature. A reader could literally travel through a 3-D narrative in SL meeting characters and actions and places and scripts along the way. This is perhaps close to what Matt asked me to find: "Poetry dependant on the 3-D world of Second Life."
I did get an in-world copy of sLiterary Magazine, but I found it more difficult to read than it was worth. It was very touch to manage the scrolling and fit the pages into my screen - the online version is much easier, but not really a SL experience.
This week Trish and I will be working on the structure of our presentation and report and will begin working on it also. By Wednesday we should have a decent outline of our project to share.
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