{"id":215,"date":"2008-03-01T10:36:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T17:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=215"},"modified":"2008-03-01T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T17:36:27","slug":"hypertext-a-bottle-of-beer-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/03\/hypertext-a-bottle-of-beer-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"HYPERTEXT: <em>A Bottle of Beer<\/em> &#8211; Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>n the process of seeking translation of a somewhat vulgar slang word into espanol, I was pointed in the direction of editing this hypertext story and while I realized that there were some rough spots here, the story seemed to grow so quickly that I focused on letting that happen.&nbsp; This is not my usual way of writing, and in hypertext, it&#8217;s vital to keep it under some form of control because the story can never be available all at a glance (well yes, it can be presented in Map View but that doesn&#8217;t really show up the little glitches of language and time).<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m in a quandary.&nbsp; I&#8217;m finding more and more &quot;rough spots,&quot; places that could be smoothed and polished in rewriting, some time and space flaws, and other story element areas that beg for attention.&nbsp; This is all on my own recognition of less than top quality writing; I can well imagine what a pro writer like <a href=\"http:\/\/steveersinghaus.com\">my buddy <\/a>or a bunch of pro readers like the CW classmates could point out in this.&nbsp; &nbsp; But do I take care of these things now&#8211;which is what I normally do when writing, starting from an earlier point, often the first line, and reading and rewriting as I go&#8211;or should I finish up the story, since I&#8217;m so close to the end?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>n the process of seeking translation of a somewhat vulgar slang word into espanol, I was pointed in the direction of editing this hypertext story and while I realized that there were some rough spots here, the story seemed to grow so quickly that I focused on letting that happen.&nbsp; This is not my usual [&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-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}