HYPERTEXT: A Bottle of Beer – Story
It seems to be getting easier for me to write into the hypertext environment, though I’ve been doing it since sometime in November when I first ordered Storyspace in the Windows Version, then again in January with the Mac version, and now, in these last couple of days, working in the Hypertextopia site online.
While I’ve wandered away from the Storyspace wip, The Hanging, I’ve plunged right into A Bottle of Beer in Hypertextopia and I think part of the reason is simple the story and character that came out of the first text box and grew from there. Yolanda, the plump protagonist of A Bottle of Beer, is likeable, has risen above her family script, and is at the point in her life where she just wants to be left alone and live through her good dreams and happy times. But her vulnerability has always been men, and even now, on a hot late afternoon, there is someone coming to see her and we can’t imagine what it will mean for her future.
Nearing the four-thousand word mark on this, and I’ve an idea that I’m close to winding it up. There are plenty of places that I can add on the "shards" of hypertext, enhancements, background, insight, and I do have these tagged (color-coded) according to what they are revealing: Something of Yolanda, something of Men, or something that comes natural to the instinct for survival.
Another day and maybe even later tonight, I’ll link to it here though I’m still working on the piece.
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