Back in March I mentioned that I would be taking part in a group project over the summer whereby a number of artists, writers, coders, photographers, musicians, etc. would each be producing a piece of work on a daily basis for 100 days starting May 22nd, 2009. I had done some experimental pieces, then tried to make the move from Storyspace to Tinderbox as the program to write in and then also learned some css and such to make the move from Typepad here to WordPress and figure out how to export the hypertext to work here (at my Hypercompendia site) and in some fancy schmancy colors as well.
Since then, I got interested in a few more projects and tried to meet deadlines for submitting short stories and plan out some rewriting of the old, some starting basics for the new. When May 22nd came along, I found myself in a real blue funk of self-doubt and didn’t feel ready to step up and join the talent that was forming itself into a collage of creativity. I made a last push to create a few hypertext stories as the project got started just as practice to follow along. Seeing that hypertext was not represented in the the project, I’ve decided to rejoin and was accepted into a very energetic and eclectic group of ambitious and talented workers.
Each individual produces his or her work on an individual website, but a central point has been established by the instigator of the project, Steve Ersinghaus, at 100 Days: Summer 2009 (linked also at the top right of this page) that links to all the separate sites by their feeds. I’m currently using Hypercompendia as a point of entry since it seemed that the relativity of the hypertext medium didn’t warrant the extra work of creating a separate weblog at this point, and also have a separate page for the hypertexts at Hypertext under a Flash Fiction page.
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