HYPERTEXT & 100 DAYS PROJECT: Story
Had a hard time with this last story, #53. It came in a flash as it used to, meaning the opening lines were all there. Without knowing where it was going, I started writing it out and stumbled many times through it. It was taking a direction that seemed forced into a hypertext structure and I think it would have been a very different story had I let it be straight text.
Also have a problem letting go of some of the stories sometimes and they affect what comes after. 24 hours just isn’t always enough to shake a story or characters out of my head. The last two stories were tough to write because the boys of #51 Snakes and Snails were still with me. I think that may be one of my favorite stories so far but when this happens, it’s a blight on what comes after. There’s a change of mood, a change of world, a change of comfort zone.
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