STORYSPACE: All Paths Lead Home
This is a portion of the latest Map View where I have all five trails laid out side by side (with just a few of the ‘children’ or side trails pulled out) and this, I think, is where I’ll find it easiest to work with link connections. It will also allow for the expansion of story and character that seems to be a phenomenon of the Storyspace environment not as easily offered or noticed in traditional writing methods (or at least by me). Steve notes this element in his post on Hypertext and Character. (Semantically proper link here!)
What this particular structure has already allowed me to do is find a starting point in the central narrative for each of the four paths to begin. Since the entire reading layout will now be focused on a single starting point that includes the interweaving of the four (instead of the prior separation of starting points with random connecting links), where the stories touch and interplay with each other is a matter of locating natural ‘touching’ points of narrative. Sort of like one thought sparking another.
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