Ambient Fiction

Warren Ellis waxes lyrical about Ambient Fiction:

Works you can dip into and out of, like treatises and long non-fiction works, and still draw complete little micro-experiences from, as you do in ambient music. A flow, or combination of flows, of word and picture that constitutes an ideational visual soundtrack, if you like.

The pure imagining of ambient music was that sound was used as you’d use light. You want constancy from light. You want to be able to ignore it, or drift away from it, but also to be able to focus on it, to study and enjoy it.

Throw away the notion of complex plot. Only the simplest of dramatic engines required — just setting characters, themes and relationships in motion. Creating a string of moments and conversations and sequences that CAN add to a whole, but don’t necessarily HAVE to.

I like this idea.

This would give me a loose framework to peg some of my writing on, without getting all fussed about writing a whole novel or antyhing ridiculous like that.

A style that's very conducive to blogging as well. Each post is stand alone, but the whole weaves a richer tapestry.