{"id":186,"date":"2008-03-18T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T17:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-03-18T10:22:31","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T17:22:31","slug":"hypertext-inspiration-and-dedication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/03\/hypertext-inspiration-and-dedication\/","title":{"rendered":"HYPERTEXT: Inspiration and Dedication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">W<\/span>ell now, ever since I realized that I could make Writing Spaces in exciting colors I&#8217;ve been antsy to work back in the friendly environment of <a href=\"http:\/\/eastgate.com\/storyspace\">Storyspace<\/a>.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the inspirational WOW factor I suppose, my muse likely being a hot-pink sequined queen.&nbsp; The space is an appetizer, a platter to be filled with tasty words that build to the main meal and all the sweet potatoes and artichoke and chick peas side dishes.<\/p>\n<p>Food shows up in my writing a lot.&nbsp; Mostly as metaphor; I don&#8217;t sit a family down to a meal, particularly in that odd tv sitcom manner where seven people crowd three sides of the table to leave room for the cameraman&#8217;s plate.&nbsp; Though eggs at breakfast were a very important part of one of the storylines of <em>Paths<\/em>, and corn tied the five narrative threads together. <\/p>\n<p>Before I can start or restart something in Storyspace (I have four or five so-called &#8216;concepts&#8217; awaiting me) I need to wring our the Hypercompendia <em>A Bottle of Beer&nbsp; <\/em>till it&#8217;s dry as a pretzel (see?) and then take out all the embarrassing excess in <em>Paths<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So inspiration is the beginning of story, perspiration is the writing, and dedication, well that&#8217;s gotta be all the rewrites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">W<\/span>ell now, ever since I realized that I could make Writing Spaces in exciting colors I&#8217;ve been antsy to work back in the friendly environment of Storyspace.&nbsp; It&#8217;s the inspirational WOW factor I suppose, my muse likely being a hot-pink sequined queen.&nbsp; The space is an appetizer, a platter to be filled with tasty words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}