Had an interesting conversation last week with Carolyn as to how differently each of us form our narratives. Carolyn goes into quite intricate diagramming of the story before it's written–and while she'd fight me on this likely, Tinderbox or Storyspace would be a delight to her organized mind.
Steve appears to like the involvement of even closer planning as he works in hypertext. Chris is trying out a new way; having been a planner (and involved in creating a hypertext program of his own) and now inspired by that first sentence:
popped into my head: “The monsoons made us think of home.” I wrote
maybe two pages of a scene and had no idea where it was going, but the
hard part was over: I had a beginning. I just had to work out what it
meant.
It may move him back into a non-linear format of hypertext even as he begins at a beginning. Nothing is right; nothing is wrong with how one starts and progresses through a story. I've gone back to linear text because the purpose of hypertext doesn't suit me; though when it does, I use it to my own urges rather than formal styles, and that's something I'll likely do with whatever medium or method I explore. Forms are tools, not hard templates to an artist. Else a blank canvas can become a simple paint-by-numbers.
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