{"id":207,"date":"2008-03-04T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-04T16:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=207"},"modified":"2008-03-04T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-04T16:49:17","slug":"hypertext-hypertextopia-untying-knots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/03\/hypertext-hypertextopia-untying-knots\/","title":{"rendered":"HYPERTEXT: Hypertextopia &#8211; Untying Knots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">W<\/span>hile I still believe that <a href=\"http:\/\/hypertextopia.com\">Hypertextopia<\/a> is fully capable of multi-linear story paths, it is not the ideal environment for that&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/eastgate.com\/storyspace\">Storyspace <\/a>most likely is the best vehicle if that is the intent.&nbsp; Perhaps because I&#8217;m coming out of the middle of my second Storyspace project to take advantage of the opportunity when Hypertextopia came to my attention, I am still thinking along those lines (though I&#8217;m not as excited about the &#8216;choose your own path&#8217; idea [since basically, the path is not always chosen with any knowledge of data for a basis of decision] I do love the side trails and intricacy of weaving a story that hypertext in any form offers so well).<\/p>\n<p>So, in reading through <a href=\"http:\/\/hypertextopia.com\/library\/read\/104\">A Bottle of Beer<\/a> in its unfinished form, and finding that I&#8217;ve often missed the loops that were vital to the linear narrative part of the story (versus the non-linear flashbacks and backstory that are clearly necessary inclusions), I have untied some loops, rethreaded the narrative so that it does, in effect, go in one direction for all who read it&#8211;except for the side trails that are read by reader choice. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got to say that I am thrilled with this form and particularly that it has been made available to both readers and writers by its creator, Jeremy Ashkenas to whom I am very grateful for the opportunity to work in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">W<\/span>hile I still believe that Hypertextopia is fully capable of multi-linear story paths, it is not the ideal environment for that&#8211;Storyspace most likely is the best vehicle if that is the intent.&nbsp; Perhaps because I&#8217;m coming out of the middle of my second Storyspace project to take advantage of the opportunity when Hypertextopia came to [&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-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","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=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}