HYPERTEXT: Inspiration and Dedication
Well now, ever since I realized that I could make Writing Spaces in exciting colors I’ve been antsy to work back in the friendly environment of Storyspace. It’s the inspirational WOW factor I suppose, my muse likely being a hot-pink sequined queen. The space is an appetizer, a platter to be filled with tasty words that build to the main meal and all the sweet potatoes and artichoke and chick peas side dishes.
Food shows up in my writing a lot. Mostly as metaphor; I don’t sit a family down to a meal, particularly in that odd tv sitcom manner where seven people crowd three sides of the table to leave room for the cameraman’s plate. Though eggs at breakfast were a very important part of one of the storylines of Paths, and corn tied the five narrative threads together.
Before I can start or restart something in Storyspace (I have four or five so-called ‘concepts’ awaiting me) I need to wring our the Hypercompendia A Bottle of Beer till it’s dry as a pretzel (see?) and then take out all the embarrassing excess in Paths.
So inspiration is the beginning of story, perspiration is the writing, and dedication, well that’s gotta be all the rewrites.
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