STORYSPACE: Mapping as Organization and Influence
Great sharing on Steve Ersinghaus’ part in a posting of Map Views that show the progressive changes made in structure and paths of his new work, Brimmer and Death.
I’ve posted many times about Storyspace’s Map View and my own dependence on it exclusively (except when I’d made a changeover in pattern and needed Chart View to show up all the Writing Space Children hiding within the wombs of parental spaces like unborn children).
As Steve points out, "The structural hypertext view provided information about “when” and “where” the action was happening in relation to another." There are many such writer’s aids in Storyspace that we are finding play an important part in creating structure of story. For example, I am once again leaning heavily on color-coding threads. In Paths, it gave me a clear picture of whose point of view we were reading. In Gap, I haven’t quite yet decided whether it’s going to be a generational (character) roadsign or a guideline for setting. But it allows me to see at a glance exactly how these areas are developing and where they can transect or happily meet, mate, and continue to be fruitful and multiply.
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