100 DAYS PROJECT: #38
The Body Has Its Say
Had some problems with this one from the get-go. My original idea was drawn from Steve’s story that focused a character’s awareness of his feet, and in turn that became a metaphor for things accomplished and things we would like to do. In other words, choices. The part I centered on was an arrangement of the body parts in an argument as to which was the most important to the body as a whole. I wrote up about five spaces and just wasn’t happy with it. In the back of my mind I recall reading Aesop’s Fables as a child and I believe there was a similar argument between the stomach and another vital part.
So I started wiping out almost every word but maintained a couple just as a possibility. The story started out with an awareness of the mind, moved to feet, and then by the third space was something totally unexpected and that’s what took over.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
June 29th, 2009 at 6:43 am
Wow, I’ll say it was different! If I didn’t know better I’d think autobiographical. You conveyed the feelings very well. I did notice the titles this time! (And there’s a closed loop between tea, 8, and blood. If you only click on the last link like I did, you go around and around.) Which is funny because when I read it straight through that didn’t happen. It was a nice touch because I ended up stuck in her looping thoughts much like she is. Ooh, that would be a fun hypertext, to mimic someone’s psychosis.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:35 am
You’ve caught onto one of the opportunities that hypertext offers which is free association. A word or event sparks off another train of thought that becomes another path or thread in a hypertext piece. This to me is also the way the brain works in processing information and often shows up in conversation; subjects changing according to what the listener is relating the data to in his own memory/knowledge storage.
But no, I didn’t plan that loop as carefully as I could have, but there is an easy way out of it though I myself get stuck in it for a while before I saw it.