STORYSPACE: Digging Through Data
These days find me in study mode and my current reading is an essay by Mark Bernstein titled Storyspace 1 that I found and printed out but for the life of me, cannot find the source except that it’s a link somewhere on Eastgate’s or Mark’s site.
What he does here is examine the beginnings and progression of the Storyspace program and gets into the structure of some of the twenty-eight works available at the time. This is interesting reading as to the hypertext thought process and the efforts to accomodate the notions of reading and writing in a more flexible method. It also shows me, without having to buy all the fiction available, some of the mapping the writers used and what may be the reasoning behind it. This, after reading Patterns and Garden, is giving me a clearer picture of the software and what it can do. I was going to say ‘should" do, but then I’ll once again be certain that not only would it not offer something new, but that it is likely to paralyze me further from action.
More on this later, then it’ll be on to Hypertext Now.
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