STORYSPACE: The Hanging – Snapshots
I believe I may be guided by the Storyspace environment in this particular piece; meaning, I suppose, that I am indeed writing to the format.
Then again, I believe that it’s like writing poetry. The story hasn’t come together yet, but I’m getting scenes that pop into my mind from the life of this couple that I can write down into a Writing Space and pin someplace on the Map like the tail on a donkey. From there, they eventually get lengthened into a thread and somewhere it ties into the whole picture.
Here’s the latest map image:
Each new trail is from a different time period, a bit of past or future that is relevant to the story. The story hence becomes a composition of strands of knowledge.
Sequencing here is important only within each trail. We already know she’s dead. It is as if we can hear the mourners recalling her life–there would be no linearity timewise to the various conversations. We would hear of her wedding day, perhaps, before we overheard about her sixteenth birthday party from that group over there. And here, these three elderly grey-haired women speak of the pain of her birth.
I like that.
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