STORYSPACE: Personality
Went to bed. The thought wouldn’t go away. Does structure of narrative indicate anything of the personality of an author?
We see this in literature all the time, the influence of the experience of the writer on the story. But with the maps and charts of Storyspace, do we see more, even as we propose the means of hypertext as a more reader based work?
I can’t sleep because of the strictness of the five rows of story, evenly spaced, color-coded. What have I revealed about myself? Anal retentive? I am hoping for logical and organized if such things can be determined from Storyspace’s Map View at all.
A thought creeps in, my salvation, perhaps: The stories will be connected to the mainline and each other in loops. It is in my power to arrange the writing spaces to reflect that, as one story flows from the main path, travels a bit and returns, only to lie dormant for a few more spaces until it flows outward again. This Map View would look more like a blade of swamp grass with bubbles of frog eggs billowing out down its length. And I will look more free-spirited. That is, if I can take myself out of square.
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