Seems I’m going to learn by trial and error(s) or maybe print out some of the Storyspace Manual pages or else I’m going to be knee-deep in empty writing spaces that appear to be breeding like rabbits.
I know there’s a proper way of doing it, but without the instructions staring me in the face and left to my own devices I’m a regular fertile Myrtle with the text boxes, touching one with intention to write and creating a cute little new box instead.
Right now instead of working with the collaboration work in progress–since it’s got more mysteries and random roads that without some skill with the software and with little idea of where this story’s going yet, I’m going to practice with something I have on file.
Paths is a composite of four stories that was published in linear format yet with a system of pseudo-hypertexting links between words that brought the stories together. I’m familiar with it (since I wrote it) and figure maybe it’d be a good time to see how it works out in true hypertext form. I suspect that it won’t be as creative as the hypertext environment offers, but it’s a start.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology