{"id":165,"date":"2008-04-11T07:44:14","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=165"},"modified":"2009-02-15T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T19:51:20","slug":"hypertext-story-determining-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/04\/hypertext-story-determining-form\/","title":{"rendered":"HYPERTEXT: Story Determining Form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">J<\/span>ust started a story with an idea, a man walking in the night through the woods.&nbsp; Taking pause as that scene settles, I think about other things, yet never too far away that I cannot hear him if he calls.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m thinking about is this: What set the form of story?<\/p>\n<p>Working and switching among straight text, hypertext in <a href=\"http:\/\/eastgate.com\/storyspace\">Storyspace<\/a> and hypertext in <a href=\"http:\/\/hypertextopia.com\">Hypertextopia<\/a>, it surprises me that I already know this story is meant for traditional linear telling.&nbsp; It has no need for the roundabouts or playing with time of Storyspace mapping.&nbsp; It does not call for the Shards of clarity from Hypertextopia.&nbsp; At least not at this point. The man is alone, the night is rumbling.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Is the situation what settles the form?&nbsp; What calls out the innuendos and acuteness of side trails?&nbsp; It certainly can&#8217;t be the loneness of the character, as in <a href=\"http:\/\/hypertextopia.com\/library\/read\/104\"><em>A Bottle of Beer<\/em><\/a>, Yolanda sits alone on her porch awaiting a man running down the road towards her throughout the story.&nbsp; Ah, but she is surrounded by ghosts; from her past, from human nature, and from instinct. There is a natural pattern that develops that is asking these ghosts to drift through the story.&nbsp; The intricacy of Storyspace&#8217;s trails would be overkill; we don&#8217;t want the reader to wander away from the immediacy of Yolanda&#8217;s last hour&#8211;which is the whole of the story.&nbsp; Hypertextopia is then perfect for that particular piece.&nbsp; <em>Paths<\/em> was begging for parallel paths (uh, hence, it&#8217;s title) and needed the coexistence of threads that separated yet tied lives together.&nbsp; Neither story could likely have been told in a different form with any degree of accuracy&#8211;of sense of exactly how it happened.<\/p>\n<p>So it is not the singleness of character, the singleness of purpose&#8211;and perhaps if the focus of this man&#8217;s story was different it would indeed call out for an exploration via links.&nbsp; What then?<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t truly know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">J<\/span>ust started a story with an idea, a man walking in the night through the woods.&nbsp; Taking pause as that scene settles, I think about other things, yet never too far away that I cannot hear him if he calls.&nbsp; What I&#8217;m thinking about is this: What set the form of story? Working and switching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[53,31],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext","tag-hypertext","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","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=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}