STORYSPACE & PROJECTS: Weaving
I believe it was Sally, one of the English professors and a friend from whom I first heard the term "weaving." It meant tying together various strands of story into a braided whole.
For the past month I’ve been reworking this story (Paths) to fit more into the hypertext environment by taking advantage of the potential it offers. Every now and then an image would come to me of a macrame’d wall hanging, something I haven’t done in decades yet the idea of making patterns from separated strands of rope is exactly what I seem to be doing now in making this project work. The Writing Spaces of Storyspace are like the knots where intersecting strands meet and change direction.
It’s been tedious reworking the narrative and every now and then I want to trash it and start something new. I find myself reading the same thing over and over and over again as I look for a design in plot or even just in language. The characters are all at a point where reflection brings wistful wondering. All see the same things differently and made their choices based on that. Mistakes are made, facts are mistaken. Normal life cycles and normal concern as the wheel turns. Like looking down from the highest point of the ferris wheel.
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