{"id":1787,"date":"2009-06-23T06:39:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T11:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2009-06-23T06:39:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-23T11:39:09","slug":"100-days-project-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2009\/06\/100-days-project-32\/","title":{"rendered":"100 DAYS PROJECT:  #32"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/32marley\/titlec.html\"><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he Metamorphosis of Marley &#8211; (Marley 3)<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/32marley\/titlec.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1788\" title=\"32marley\" src=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/32marley-300x179.jpg\" alt=\"32marley\" width=\"300\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/32marley-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/32marley-1024x611.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/32marley.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s tough going back to a character, an environment that you&#8217;ve left behind unfinished. That&#8217;s why I have a file of &#8220;opening lines&#8221; and why they&#8217;ve accumulated over the years (though I am grateful for that now as it&#8217;s helped me in the last story).<\/p>\n<p>Once again, I followed the theme of serialization and went back to two previous (#4 and #5) hypertext stories to pick up where we left off with Marley and a mysterious woman. For some reason, I didn&#8217;t seem to want to help Marley sort out his life; my mind just had a hard time dealing with him. This story lends more air time to the antagonist of Stephanie then.<\/p>\n<p>The other thing I&#8217;ve played with here is the hypertext form as a serious choice of paths. Just as in #30 Dark Moves where the reader follows a trail of his own choice that ends up in one of five different places, this story allows movement between possibilities up to a point, then the pattern has been decided.  Of course, there&#8217;s always re-reads which presents a whole different perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he Metamorphosis of Marley &#8211; (Marley 3) It&#8217;s tough going back to a character, an environment that you&#8217;ve left behind unfinished. That&#8217;s why I have a file of &#8220;opening lines&#8221; and why they&#8217;ve accumulated over the years (though I am grateful for that now as it&#8217;s helped me in the last story). Once again, I [&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":[39,5],"tags":[65,53],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-days-project","category-hypertext","tag-100-days-project","tag-hypertext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","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=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}