HYPERTEXT: Hypertextopia – Developing Story
Love the way this is going–it is as if the medium brings out a sense of magical realism that I’d noticed as well as a force working in Storyspace.
Yolanda was dancing with a large black bear. It was
light on its feet and its smile revealed clean long white teeth. She
was falling in love.As the music gathered together in pace and
intensity, the bear whirled her around and around until she felt she
was flying. She’d never felt so happy and free. The sweet smooth
twanging of the guitars and the rattling beat stopped with a loud
flourish and he caught her in his paws and lifted her high above his
head. An angel flying in the sky; a white cloud drifting over the
troubles of the cockroaches in the cornmeal and the putrid water from a
dying well.She was in ecstasy.
The map, however, is not going to be one of many paths unless I learn a better way of maneuvering within it. While I do like the idea of a thread of singular narrative and the side trail of embellishment or enhanced informational text, I think I do see this as a middle ground between the complete freedom of Storyspace and the restrictive borders of traditional text. Then again, I may only need to adjust story to medium, or select medium to match story.
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