What we’re about
Building a community of writers exploring interactive storytelling. Whether you're working on traditional fiction and want to experiment with reader choice, or you're curious about branching narratives, we're figuring it out together.
Looking to meet writers at any level interested in stories where reader decisions matter. People who want to understand how choose-your-own-adventure structures work, why certain story choices feel satisfying, and how to give readers meaningful control without losing narrative coherence.
Each month we tackle different aspects of interactive writing. Sometimes we'll write short branching scenes and test them on each other. Other times we'll analyze existing interactive fiction to see what works. Hands-on exercises, collaborative story building, discussion of reader psychology and decision-making in narrative.
90 minutes, monthly, usually Sunday afternoons in Brighton. We start with topic introduction, focus on practical exercises, then discuss discoveries.
Organiser: Daria Ryzhikova, psychology student at Brighton University and author experimenting with interactive fiction formats.