HYPERTEXT: Hypertextopia – Working with Links
I’m have a great time writing into Hypertextopia, and while I’m running into some technical glitches, I’m finding out that some of it is my own fault in the way I’m entering information and some of it is just program quirks. The good thing is that Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of this site is so wonderfully willing to work with you in getting things straightened out.
One this he has mentioned is that the site works best with Firefox and I’ve found that to be true so I’m not hopping back and forth between couches (the northern Dell and the southern Mac) but using the Mac and Firefox exclusively. He has also told me to mind what text is selected for linking, to keep it simple and symbol-free, which I am doing. It does matter if the text is copied from a Word program into the Hypertextopia writing boxes (called Fragments and Shards) and I’ve done this, but only when I’ve already lost a portion of text and have now covered my ass by copying and pasting from Hypertextopia to Word or iPages or an email as backup and have had to replace the text.
The story is moving along nicely and I’ve no idea where it’s going or how long it will be but it just seems to be flowing from the characters themselves, starting with Yolanda and her three past husbands and a stranger jogging out of the sunset.
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