TINDERBOX and the 100 DAYS PROJECT: Oh those maps!
In looking for a particular image in my files this morning this greeted me–a whole buncha Tinderbox maps for the project. For one thing, you can tell I’m a person that is pretty rigid with structure, at least in mapping. I like symmetry. Oh, I have round days and rectangle days, but there seems to be a good balance between them.
There appears to be a pattern of growth in the sophistication of the mapping as far as number of lexias and links. Maybe by #7 I got my act together and the maps took on a geometric form. Stories and maps elaborated into an attempt at visual as well as textual art. These are short short stories though, and I doubt I could get away with these maps in a larger piece without nesting them into a hierarchy. To the writer unfamiliar with hypertext the mapping of each story might look a bit scary; to the hypertextually experienced, these are child’s play. To me, it’s a nice visual to convince me that all this effort’s been worth some accomplishment.
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