STORYSPACE: Progression of Plot
I’m thinking more intelligently–or at the very least, more informed–about narrative presented in hypertext format. It’s not all about giving the reader free tickets to roam the park at will without guidance of some sort, but rather to lay down the trail through the rides, the petting zoos, and the concession stands in a logical order so that as the sun sets in the western sky, he’ll have eaten fried pizza dough, thrown up on the roller coaster, and just missed getting pissed on by the nubian goats.
As writer, you’ll want him to experience all the loopty-loops you’ve so poetically entered into those Writing Spaces off the main track. Not only that, he’ll get a different, possibly clearer, possibly more questionable view of the characters with each extra bit of insight that information allows. But, if he’s determined to race straight through past the monkeys and toss-a-balls-to-win a cheap stuffed purple gorilla just to get sick on the fried dough, than you just have to let him.
Is that a plan or what?
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