STORYSPACE: To every thing there is a season…
…and I would think that with the emergence of Sony’s reader, Amazon’s Kindle, and the extraordinary amount of literary journals, magazines, and newspaper supplementing their physical presence with the online version, this is the time for IF, Animation, and the hypertext format of Storyspace to come into their own and head for prime time space.
So many folks simply do not understand the notion of hypertext and some that do still do not care for the cold laptop version of a book, or the distraction of clicking (versus flipping pages) so the audience is less than for the more traditional manner of reading. But as more of literature goes digital, as the old is transformed into the new without changing context, people are realizing that they have opportunity to read just as they’ve learned to adjust to unbodied meetings and paperless reports and the immediacy and abundance the web offers in diversity and range.
As the changes become the norm, with the old still available and as comforting as a favorite blanket, the writer seeks to overcome his own trepidations and boldly lay claim to new territory. There is no one set way to approach this business of writing for there is one thing that technology does not restrict but rather encourage: creative spirit will always take its own individual path.
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