STORYSPACE & PROJECTS: Paths – Proofing
Well I think I’m at the end of the trail here with this one. I’ve bottomed out at 300 writing spaces and 386 links and believe that everything that needed to be in the narrative is, and without someone else to read for language and flow, I think it’s just about as done without going nuts over it.
What I’m spending time on now is proving the links by following them out. I don’t know that I used hypertext to its full advantage, although perhaps I did while remaining within the constraints of the program (and yes, there are some for me as far as what I might have liked to do with this in a different way). But more, I don’t think this piece would pass the test of allowing several paths through the story. There is really but one with the opportunity of taking sidetrips into discovering more about the characters and their relationships and what affected their lives that brought them to this short period of relevant time we focus upon.
I like it for that reason alone–I think it did exactly what I wanted in the narrative. I’m sick of reading it though since it’s been on the screen display for nearly two months straight.
When I’m done with it, which should be today, I’ve got to decide whether I can somehow get it online to make it available or whether it just lives out its natural life on my hard drive.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology