Hypercompendia

I guess there’s no reason to keep it a secret–I’ll be presenting at a workshop on June 19th in Pittsburgh, PA at the Hypertext 08 conference.  That’s what all this “presentation” talk is about.  That’s my opening slide above.

What I’m doing now to get started is putting together an outline that I should be able to easily follow to show the path of a writer’s first exploration of hypertext as a creative writing medium.  I’m filtering through the posts here since they are sort of a blow-by-blow daily report of the journey.

I’m learning Mac Keynote as the slide program–since if there’s something else for an audience to look at besides me, I won’t be as nervous.  It will also keep me on course since I tend to ramble off in other directions–the typical hypertext mind, now given status raised from scatterbrained to the methodical mapping of the hypertext way of thinking.

I’m loving working with Keynote, and I’m loving the creative side of presenting a presentation.  What I am also finding is that the images I’m using of my work in Storyspace show colorful maps that fairly light up the slide screen since part of my strategy in narrative structure was to separate the perspectives/characters/outcomes by color coding.  That way–though I didn’t–I could have set the text boxes up in patterns following the linking of the threads and not lose track of the individual threads themselves.

So in and among the typical bulleted text slides that are more for my own notes than for audience reading, there will be some lovely full color shots of hypertext maps and spaces.  I’m psyched!