Twine is a free tool designed for making text games.
Entwine Journal is a forum for those texts.
Text game is really a good description of an experimental text. Twine makes simple web sites. It gives you a limited set of options to present and move around within the text. What more do you need?
I think the main pleasure and potential of this tool is to build a text, a document, in which the words themselves and the ‘pages’, the parts, the chapters, move around, appear and disappear, link to other parts or random parts, loop, twist, shudder, change colour, Twine texts can contain an internal logic, a route that is different to any printed text. What you do with this is up to you, just as the twenty-six letters of the alphabet can be combined in billions of ways to make every text ever written.
These texts, call them stream of consciousness or concrete poetry or experimental novels or hybrid texts, are not new in the world. But everything you produce will be.
I am going to be encouraging people to use this tool to make work. That is what Entwine Journal is for.