Hypercompendia

Preparing a paper on my life with Storyspace and how even at my age and far from higher intelligence status the transitioning of story, of writing from all aspects of the process adjusts itself to the new form and format.

Transitioning was my first word choice for the phenomenon.  Then Evolution, since I see it as an adaptive change that necessarily affects both writer and the product of his work, writing.  This is partially what I hope to cover in this presentation. 

But me being me–that is, the part that has not evolved/transitioned/plainly changed–I have to come up with the opening line first, or at the very least, a title, as it then acts as a crowbar to open the gates (keys and unlocking is just soo0 overdone, yaknow?).  And this is what I’ve settled on:

The Hypertext Effect: The Transfiguration of Writing and Writer

Just to make sure I was offending as few as possible, I did bother to look up the dictionary definition:

transfigure, v. t.  1. to change in outward form or appearance; transform; change, or alter.  2. to change so as to glorify, exalt, or idealize.

I like it. Sort of like a miraculous bolt of lightning type of experience.  I can see it now, that flash of insight, that moment of discovery, the martyr-nature of the average writer tripled, quadrupled by the endless possibilities of paths and woulda-coulda-shoulda’s.  And the satisfaction of a righteous God who allows that this self-doubt and bold but blind confidence that can endanger and deny, well that can all be passed on to the reader via the little but mighty link.

Okay, back to work.

Oh and yes, raised Catholic, I did of course play a bit with Transubstantiation but that gave me a definite feeling of the creepies; traditions and beliefs die hard.