STORYSPACE & PROJECTS: Natural Trails
It took a while to solidfy from the fog, but there seems to be a logical progression of narrative happening now that is closer to the general idea of the stories, and to the work as a whole.
Basically there is a main narrative that is a sort of story in itself. At certain points in the narrative, there are text links that lead off to the beginning of each of the original four stories. Once on the path of a story, a reader will follow this thread, being able to go off on some of the relative text links particular to that story, and eventually will be returned to the main thread, either back to the place from which he left, or to the very next space. This ensures that no opportunity is lost. Eventually, another text link will take him off to the story where he left off, although in the meantime, he may have ‘visited’ other story threads as well.
I’m working it in the Chart View right now, with the hard copy as script, but will post a Map View to show the links as soon as I can figure out how to get the Map View of each story unloaded into one big picture.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology