Might end up not posting on this project here, but rather switch it to Pseudohyperfiction, a blog I’d set up a while ago to handle this particular thing.
What I’m doing is working with four stories that had been relative to each other, while each could stand alone. They range in size from 900 words to 1500 words, and the original plan was to link them together to produce a storyspace of approximately 5000 words (and no, I didn’t plan it out by word count–that’s sacrilegious and against my beliefs) via several thoughts or ideas that would flow through each, breaking the time barriers and settings that set them apart.
(NOTE: Just hit spellcheck to verify sacrilegious which was spelled right, but it wants to fix Pseudohyperfiction into Stupefaction.)
So the CAD program I found is working out well–though I haven’t gone much further with it today because of other more pressing concerns. But I think what the program might do is clarify the direction I should be taking with this project; it may even become a short film clip if I could unravel the storylines into a whole. The layers are affected by time–but more by the decisions made by the characters in one brief period of time in the past.
Very interesting process. And if I decide to move the posting to the other weblog, I’ll link to it here.
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