STORYSPACE: Pigeon & Shoe – New Mapview
It’s likely just my own lack of inspiration lately but this hypertext is coming along at a snail’s pace. As you can see from this latest mapview, the writer’s and the old woman’s stories are developing a stronger line and I’ve found places where they tie in and possibly link.
I still don’t feel comfortable about how I’m doing the linking and am rereading Mark Bernstein’s Patterns to see if that may help me. I’m beginning to think that while I totally enjoy writing into the form, I’m just not mentally geared to the process and perhaps linearity is more my speed. But I like the concept of movement within a piece, and I love what hypertext does for backstory, setting, tense, and depth of character. Only I just don’t have the mental alacrity to make use of the levels that hypertext is designed to perform.
A temporary character shows up:
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology