Hypercompendia

Two kinds of magic, good and bad.  The black magic is obviously of my own doing: the get-too-excited-go-to-minimize-miss-it-hit-the-x-poof! type when I did forget to save what I’d just done.

Most famous quote from Mark Bernstein (or at least one of them): "Save your work."

The good magic: guard links.  I put one in after a text link from story #1 to prevent readers from following story #2 any further beyond that writing space.  It works nicely. Now this part is where the work comes in and I’m not sure if I want to edit the story first or do the guard links but I think that I’m at the very least going to spent a good portion of today checking out all the links (which I was supposed to do yesterday but realized that there weren’t even leftovers for supper, strange little people were banging on my front door demanding candy, and it’s hard to watch TV and work with Storyspace simultaneously).

One of the good things I have to work with in Paths is that not only are possible outcomes available, the past as seen through the eyes of three different characters touch at certain points since they are shared, but the perspectives will differ.  What I do want–or would like–to do is create a bit more of the background where there is more interaction between the characters as well as a feel for the times.  Don’t like the happy endings outshining the regrets as much as I have them here either. Must have been in a much less grumpy mood when I wrote this a couple years ago.  GD Susie Sunshine.

I do think I must check out what I have done up to this point, however; though it’s the worky-work stuff of links only.  What may be best, since it’s so close to complete, is finish it as is, then begin again with a revised version that I write directly into the Storyspace program and let my mind be creative  (while knowing what the f… I’m doing after already practicing with links and stuff). 

Later.