STORYSPACE: Reorganization and Hard Copy
The reorganization of the mapping out of Paths seemed overwhelming but it’s something that has to be done. To assist in the relayout, I abashedly state that I have come to depend upon the use of paper supplementation to the Storyspace technology.
There is a print feature in Storyspace, but it was more coherent a picture if I copy and pasted the stories space by space, with child spaces into Word and printed it out from there. Not do-able with a larger piece, and this has 235 spaces.
While I almost thought I’d have to cut the paragraphs apart and put them back together like a puzzle, with the Chart View that I’ve reopened a version into I find that all I need to use the hard copy for is a guideline, or script, as I move the boxes around in the Storyspace program. It’s a bit dangerous to just clip all the linking threads and set the packages (spaces) free without some manner of direction, so the "script" comes in handy to see what’s happening and what lays ahead since it is necessary to work with the text of the spaces more than just the titles.
I’m into it now. Up to my eyebrows.
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