It is obvious that the Storytron manner of planning story is total alien to my natural method of writing. I tend to start with an opening paragraph, whether to set mood, create a backdrop or situation, or present a character, and the story just develops and progresses without thinking ahead about where the story is headed. It starts; I’m there to write down what happens.
Storytron appears, without definite plots or structure, to have a general story or scenario in mind when creating the "Storyworld" stage, and with the license (and necessity, for interesting interactive reading) to include all the possibilities that need be discarded in favor of a single path in traditional format.
It’s an interesting concept and for me, a challenging one. I think that, since I’ve barely dipped my clicker into the program itself, I’m first going to write out a scene or situation for my actors to live in. I think that bit of planning, at least, is necessary to begin learning the program and what it can do.
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