STORYSPACE: Finding the Main Trail
I realize that I’m not writing into the hypertext environment in the same manner that it appears a lot of the hypertext authors have done. But I am writing true to my nature.
Without a plan.
That’s fine, I’m used to it and though there are some pov issues (sometimes I get a thought of character as the character instead of about him) and mood twists, those kinds of things are easily repairable in the many, many readings that occur as the story grows.
The problem here with my current project is that I haven’t gone back to read it in any real manner other than a writing space or two prior to where I want to add some cars to the train. It’s like I’m blurting out vignettes and details as they occur to me in random fashion, find a place to tack them on (Scott’s recall in the present? Bonnie’s thoughts on Scott and marriage? Goody, goody! Let’s have the third person omniscient watch as Bonnie mounts that spiral staircase that will lead her into freefall of unfrozen space!).
There comes a time however that even I must rein in stream of consciousness and tie together tracks that lead from Boston to LA.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology