{"id":267,"date":"2008-01-28T20:20:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T03:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=267"},"modified":"2008-01-28T20:20:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T03:20:32","slug":"storyspace-trying-to-loop-the-linear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/01\/storyspace-trying-to-loop-the-linear\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: Trying to Loop the Linear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">P<\/span>ursuant to my prior post on &#8216;diagramming a story&#8217;, I did indeed put Jumper Down by Don Shea (Flash Fiction Forward) into the Storyspace workspace.&nbsp; It of course, came out as a straight line of linked boxes.&nbsp; One thing I was able to accomplish was to describe and label the critical parts of exposition, setting, foreshadowing, conflict, climax and afterglow or resolution.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>What I had thought I might have been able to accomplish was to take out the backstory by linking it out as &#8216;not vital&#8217; to the action of the story, or its linearity.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not so sure I can do this.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It may be that the story is so brief&#8211;and yet, that shouldn&#8217;t have anything to do with it.&nbsp; While I can do the breakdown of parts or plot points, there may be no real way of making a traditional linear narrative fit comfortably into a hypertext world.<\/p>\n<p>More work to be done on this before I come to a conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">P<\/span>ursuant to my prior post on &#8216;diagramming a story&#8217;, I did indeed put Jumper Down by Don Shea (Flash Fiction Forward) into the Storyspace workspace.&nbsp; It of course, came out as a straight line of linked boxes.&nbsp; One thing I was able to accomplish was to describe and label the critical parts of exposition, setting, [&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-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}