HYPERTEXT & 100 DAYS PROJECT: The Magic of Hypertext
In working on hypertext story #32, it struck me that I have an advantage over the other storywriters in that hypertext can be updated continually to reflect changes such as serialization (which in this case, I followed Steve’s lead in pulling that out as one of the elements of the story). All it takes is to code in the link on the previous story to lead right into the new one, and so on.
Since I have different titles for the story that do not reflect the connection (bad move on my part, I need to fix that) depending upon color theme instead, I had a bit more trouble in locating the previous two (#4 Commitment and #5 Shadows) to reacquaint myself with the characters and plot. What I’ll likely do is add a sub-title to the others, include it in #32, and add those links from one to the next as an option. The other thing to think of some day is to interlink the stories internally; which would be a nightmare for me to attempt right now.
And while the other participants who choose to serialize some of the stories can easily do so by reference links too, I still must point out that it’s linkage and hypertext they’d be using, since the medium we’re all using is the same: the internet.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
June 22nd, 2009 at 9:26 pm
I thought about doing some internal linking and still might. Name to name would seem appropriate at this point.