In the 100 Days Project, Steve Ersinghaus generously shared two versions of a story to show how the writing process works to sometimes show us when we get bogged down and how to turn the story around by approaching it in a different way. Some of the other participants showed us dual examples as well as to what works and what doesn’t.
In my own hypertexts, I don’t edit the way I do in straight text, although I have dumped a couple of stories, I usually play with what I have since the structure is a large part of the work and a lot of the effort in creating the narrative. So I don’t have a way of showing a story that didn’t make it.
But I thought about it in between bouts of inspired moments and played with Tinderbox to show a visual of a story that doesn’t work:
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
Beautiful! You should post this tomorrow!!!
Very interesting, but is there a logic to the weak protagonist or hyperbole spaces–re examples you’ve encountered that might collect in those spaces.
No, no logic whatsoever. I was merely playing with Tinderbox shapes and colors. However, yes, I do have characters in some of my stories that could use rounding and a stronger presence. I’m not much of a hyperbole user, unless I’ve said kazillion meaning ten. I’m sure that I could go through any of my stories and find tons of examples that I could stuff into the lexias on this map.