PROJECTS: Paths – Rewriting
For what purpose I don’t know, except perhaps to not have something out there that’s bound to bite you in the ass someday. There are still two copies of a novel I wrote ten years ago that readers haven’t returned that while I’m certain have long since been thrown away, make me cringe to think are still possibly available somewhere to be seen.
Little by little, I’m reaclimating myself to the Storyspace hypertext Paths in an effort to reassess and reclaim it. The writer of A Bottle of Beer might be ashamed of a connection to the former hypertext, and the next piece of work should be even more unwilling to claim it, as well as a long series of traditional text stories that she for some pale reason cannot find the courage to delete from the hard drive. There are a very few of the many that have value in a majority of the elements: style, story, narrative pace and plot, language, meaning, impact.
Yet it’s a writer’s conflict to look back or move on. Choices must be made. Time is short.
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