HYPERTEXT: More on the NaNoWriMo
Yes, my husband might possibly consider divorcing me if I commit to writing 18 hours a day for 30 more days, but hey, where’s he ever going to find someone like me again?
And the urge to write is there, and the ideas will come. Writing 1700 words a day wouldn’t be a big problem for me. The coding is getting easier and in fact, would be just a case of a single story rather than switching around for colors, etc. and daily exports and uploads. I’m a lot more familiar with the medium of Tinderbox.
And the biggest reason to write of all, the driving force of getting hypertext better known and out to an audience who doesn’t have a clue it exists. Taking advantage of the NaNoWriMo reputation and interest would be a hundred times better than all I can say or do here. Even the fact that unless it’s uploaded to their site and word-counted by the NaNoWriMo officials I wouldn’t be considered a winner–and that’s of interest only because of the desire for publicity for hypertext–might have a workaround if I plead my case.
What stops me short though is that with all I’ve done to try to push the medium, there’s still so little interest and support from new audiences that I may as well just stick to doing it out of love.
Still, wouldn’t it have been cool?
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