STORYSPACE: New Mapview and What It Says
Truly becoming a hypertext experience different than what happened in Paths in that i’ve no idea where this is going even as I learn (yes, I know, I’m actually making it up) more about Scott and Bonnie and how this all came to be. In Paths, I had a basic outline of one incident where the three major characters came together and how that affected them years later. What I did with that basic skeleton in Storyspace was move things around timewise, interfering with any form of linearity that necessarily separated them into four stories instead of a single coexistence and cohesive form. And expanded each idea into all areas without it becoming a full blown novel.
What’s happening here is similar in only that there is a core of ‘present’ that can only exist become of its byproducts of ‘past’. Once again, I’m not necessarily allowing for various endings or changes to the basic story, just the way the narrative structure allows the story to be told differently–in other words, leaving the reader with the ability of making up and changing his own mind based on what he will read and in what order it is read.
Obviously, I as writer haven’t tied those trails together yet, as you can see from the current Mapview of The Hanging and how it is developing all by itself into an octopus of story.
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