Useful Fiction Definition: Organizations’ strategy papers and reports are transformed into narrative scenarios and visual art, designed to illuminate and communicate the key points and lessons, but in a form more likely to be read, shared, and remembered.
I’ve been asked by a technology company to create a series of fictional short stories illustrating the use of their technology. Implementing the useful fiction concept, I will be taking what we call in software development a use case and expanding it into a story.
One of the books that exemplifies the concept is Ghost Fleet.
Use Case Definition: A use case is a description of the ways in which a user interacts with a system or product. It may establish the success scenarios, the failure scenarios, and any critical variations or exceptions. A use case can be written or made visual with the help of a use case model tool.
I’m excited for the project as I’ve been writing historical fiction short stories in my spare time – more on them and how I will make them available after the first of the new year.
Bringing engaging characters to the stories I’ll place in real world scenarios parallel what I do with Wolf and Elle in Shadow Tier books and what I’m doing in my new series Code Name Snowman that should publish in the fall of 2025.
Another fun aspect of this opportunity is the market space the stories will serve are the DOD and the Intelligence Community. The alignment couldn’t be better.
I’ll share more of this as it moves forward.
Best Steve