Questions

1. How do you create an online narrative that has a sense of immediacy and is engaging upon repeated visits.

2. How do you create a natural sense of mystery in new media projects without creating unnecessary confusion.

3. Should the town of Devils Lake that I create be populated daily from the local obituaries or should I take a the obituaries from a certain month and build a narrative around them.

4. If I do populate the town daily how do I personify the dead?

5. Would a set of obituaries from a certain month allow me to create a stronger story?

Possible Settings in Devils Lake from Obituaries

St. Olaf's Church (Luth)
St Joseph Church(Cath)
Mercy Hosptial
Devils Lake Central High
Gilbertsons Funeral home
Devil's Lake Cemetary
Devil's Lake Docks
Fort Totten
VFW Lodge
Elk's Lodge
Eagles Lodge
Pop's Bar
Union Creamery
Lake View Dairy
Ramsey Motors
Lake Chevrolet
Odd Fellows Retirement Village
Peavey Elevator Corp

Characters so far

Sister Mary Pillaert -age 88 - nun
Angel Riverra -26- died in a car accident
Albert Liudahl - 84 -
Leslie Ironroad-20 - young mother of two
"Twiz" Dale Watt - 37-local barkeep
Sylvia Brundell -91-deaf woman
Tony Ebak -65-
Hy Sobak - 82- odd fellow resident
Deb Hayward - 77 - farmer, odd fellow
Joyce Goulding - 82 -
Tobias "Bio" Shaw - 24 - died in a house fire
Alfred R Kraft - 68 - loved "telephones and remotes"
Clifford M Becker - 68 - soldier
Alfred W. Haugen - 83 - three purple heats for combat

Non Obituaries Characters
Captain Herman
Devils Lake Monster
Minnie H.
Undertaker?

Plot

Each day new people arrive in the town of Devils lake with elaborate stories of
their past lives but as days go by they rapidly loose the details of their lives.
As new people arrive the elder citizens begin to despise and sometimes steal the life
stories from the new inhabitants.
( one character writes down all the details of his life over the building , these fade as well.)