{"id":256,"date":"2008-02-03T10:22:29","date_gmt":"2008-02-03T17:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=256"},"modified":"2009-02-02T20:50:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T01:50:38","slug":"storyspace-new-mapview-and-what-it-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/02\/storyspace-new-mapview-and-what-it-says\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: New Mapview and What It Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>ruly becoming a hypertext experience different than what happened in <em>Paths<\/em> in that i&#8217;ve no idea where this is going even as I learn (yes, I know, <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> actually making it up) more about Scott and Bonnie and how this all came to be.\u00a0 In <em>Paths,<\/em> I had a basic outline of one incident where the three major characters came together and how that affected them years later.\u00a0 What I did with that basic skeleton in <em>Storyspace<\/em> was move things around timewise, interfering with any form of linearity that necessarily separated them into four stories instead of a single coexistence and cohesive form.\u00a0 And expanded each idea into all areas without it becoming a full blown novel.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s happening here is similar in only that there is a core of &#8216;present&#8217; that can only exist become of its byproducts of &#8216;past&#8217;. Once again, I&#8217;m not necessarily allowing for various endings or changes to the basic story, just the way the narrative structure allows the story to be told differently&#8211;in other words, leaving the reader with the ability of making up and changing his own mind based on what he will read and in what order it is read.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I as writer haven&#8217;t tied those trails together yet, as you can see from the current Mapview of <em>The Hanging<\/em> and how it is developing all by itself into an octopus of story.<\/p>\n<p><a onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=382,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\" href=\"http:\/\/smgct.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/02\/03\/screencapture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-682\" title=\"020308ssp\" src=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/020308ssp.jpg\" alt=\"020308ssp\" width=\"480\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/020308ssp.jpg 480w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/020308ssp-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>ruly becoming a hypertext experience different than what happened in Paths in that i&#8217;ve no idea where this is going even as I learn (yes, I know, I&#8217;m actually making it up) more about Scott and Bonnie and how this all came to be.\u00a0 In Paths, I had a basic outline of one incident where [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","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=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}