{"id":1328,"date":"2009-05-19T06:05:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T11:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2009-05-19T06:06:44","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T11:06:44","slug":"writing-planning-with-tinderbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2009\/05\/writing-planning-with-tinderbox\/","title":{"rendered":"WRITING: Planning with Tinderbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">L<\/span>earning for me has always been easiest in the doing. Instructions are held aside and come into play when a need arises that can&#8217;t be figured out by clicking buttons, turning screws, guessing, or the real motive of comprehension as to how something would logically work. But I&#8217;m also hampered by a stubborn resistance to change.<\/p>\n<p>That said, when I fell in love with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastgate.com\/storyspace\/index.html\"> Storyspace <\/a>as a means to write hypertext story, it was a pita to relearn and rewrite into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastgate.com\/Tinderbox\/index.html\">Tinderbox<\/a> even though the two are very similar in many ways in the processing and theory of linking. Tinderbox offers a world more of capabilities and the visuals of mapping and layout are more open and yet precise in the graphics. I&#8217;ve been fiddling around with several projects in Tinderbox, starting from placing a few short hypertext stories into a project space and from there transferring a much larger Storyspace piece into the medium, and progressing to a new project for a longer novel to make use of the research and note-making spaces that would act as an outline or rough plotting structure for the narrative. Even though I don&#8217;t know if this is going to in fact be a hypertext work, the concept of having it take shape in a more cohesive manner than pages of scribbled notes (I&#8217;ve never been an outline person, except to make the required one for teachers&#8217; purposes after a story or essay was finished) is something that at this stage of my life offers invaluable assistance in saving time alone.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s nice about technology and the tools that software offers is that even with manuals and thick text of instructions, a user can always maneuver within the simplest form that suits his own needs, knowing that should more arenas of possibility open up, the field is there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">L<\/span>earning for me has always been easiest in the doing. Instructions are held aside and come into play when a need arises that can&#8217;t be figured out by clicking buttons, turning screws, guessing, or the real motive of comprehension as to how something would logically work. But I&#8217;m also hampered by a stubborn resistance to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,17],"tags":[53,54,52,63],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace","category-tinderbox","category-writing","tag-hypertext","tag-storyspace","tag-tinderbox","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}