How Dr. Lyle Skains Uses OmniOutliner

Dr. Lyle Skains is a researcher and practitioner in the field of digital and interactive fiction. She writes and creates interactive stories and then writes up her research. How did it go? How is creativity and process affected? How do audiences react? And — she uses OmniOutliner to organize this research.

We met Lyle via Twitter, when she posted some screenshots of her use of OmniOutliner: here’s a Twitter thread with some of them. She keeps notes, projects, and bibliographies in OmniOutliner.

Annette Fuller, Support Human at the Omni Group and fiction writer, joins this episode as co-host. This episode runs a bit longer than most because both Annette and your host were absolutely enthralled by Lyle and the subject matter.

You can find Lyle @lskains on Twitter and on the web at lyleskains.com.

Some other people, places, and things mentioned:

• University of Bangor in Wales
• Manchester Metropolitan University
• Digital fiction
• The Stanley Parable
• Zork
• Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Game
• Tom Wolfe
• Noelle Stevenson
• Nimona
• Lumberjanes
• Homestuck
• William S. Burroughs
• Language Is a Virus from Outer Space song
• Nine Inch Nails
• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
• Pemberley
• You
• Game of Thrones
• Twine
• New Mexico