{"id":2048,"date":"2009-07-21T18:27:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T23:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2009-07-28T13:37:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T18:37:40","slug":"100-days-project-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2009\/07\/100-days-project-61\/","title":{"rendered":"100 DAYS PROJECT: #61"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/61theend\/titlec.html\"><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span> Compendium of Sixteen Four-Sentence Stories<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/61theend\/titlec.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2049\" title=\"61theend\" src=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/61theend-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"61theend\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/61theend-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/61theend-1024x546.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/61theend.jpg 1264w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the name of brevity, I&#8217;ve tried to follow the concept of short, short story and yet with the hypertext possibilities I expanded the stories into sixteen. While none are earth-shattering story they are dramatic and complete.<\/p>\n<p>As the map shows, all stories start with the same sentence, then branch from there, each writing space a sentence that takes the story into a slightly different direction. The initial branching from the first sentence to the second represents a major difference in story, characters, etc., the first sentence having established two things: narrative pov and setting. Then, in pyramid fashion, the story is refined by its plot and finally, by the fourth sentence, its ending.<\/p>\n<p>While I could see this as a more elaborate concept, with some of the stories connecting to the endings of others to form a huge network of changing stories, I preferred to stop here to keep them all under 100 words each (most run about 85) and in just four sentences exactly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">A<\/span> Compendium of Sixteen Four-Sentence Stories In the name of brevity, I&#8217;ve tried to follow the concept of short, short story and yet with the hypertext possibilities I expanded the stories into sixteen. While none are earth-shattering story they are dramatic and complete. As the map shows, all stories start with the same sentence, then [&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-2048","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\/2048","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=2048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2048\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}