{"id":273,"date":"2008-01-24T06:56:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=273"},"modified":"2009-02-02T21:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T02:00:42","slug":"storyspace-brimmer-and-death-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/01\/storyspace-brimmer-and-death-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: <em>Brimmer and Death<\/em> &#8211; Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>n going over the mapview of this story by Steve Ersinghaus, I can see the intricate manipulation by the writer to direct the reader to cover all bases even while allowing him\/her to select direction by choice.\u00a0 This may visually help answer a question raised by Mary Ellen and addressed by both <a href=\"http:\/\/steveersinghaus.com\">Steve <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/markberstein.org\">Mark Bernstein<\/a> in this post on <a href=\"http:\/\/steveersinghaus.com\/archives\/1071#comments\">Hypertext Aesthetics<\/a>.\u00a0 She asks: &#8220;\u201cI worry constantly that I\u2019m not getting the essence of the story because I don\u2019t know how the writer crafted it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mark responds: &#8220;Just as a bard might extend some scenes and foreshorten others, the hypertext writer has (we hope) carefully arranged the links and anticipated your reading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think the map below of a portion of <em>Brimmer and Death <\/em>reveals the planning that goes into hypertext.\u00a0 If a space or thread is missed because of reader choice, it indeed will change more than the experience of the story, it may change the meaning, mood, or tone.\u00a0 That is both the author&#8217;s <em>concern<\/em> and <em>intent<\/em>.\u00a0 In the same way, he will ensure that nothing of importance is lost to the reader by his\/her own calculations.\u00a0 Note how the writing spaces are linked so that nearly all spaces of this map will be available and read, though not in the same manner.\u00a0 Sequence, then, is key.<\/p>\n<p>As they say, sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-694\" title=\"012408ssp\" src=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/012408ssp.jpg\" alt=\"012408ssp\" width=\"480\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/012408ssp.jpg 480w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/012408ssp-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>n going over the mapview of this story by Steve Ersinghaus, I can see the intricate manipulation by the writer to direct the reader to cover all bases even while allowing him\/her to select direction by choice.\u00a0 This may visually help answer a question raised by Mary Ellen and addressed by both Steve and Mark [&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-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}