{"id":279,"date":"2008-01-17T07:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T14:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=279"},"modified":"2008-01-17T07:25:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T14:25:30","slug":"storyspace-writing-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/01\/storyspace-writing-style\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: Writing Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

O<\/span>ne of the things Steve mentions in his post on his current hypertext project<\/a>, Brimmer and Death<\/em>, is this:<\/p>\n

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In the beginning, I had no idea that Death would play a role in the story. The story began with Brimmer having a conversation. This conversation was abstract and meant nothing upon first writing. <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And that’s exactly how many writers get started; I know that’s my method.  A conversation out of nowhere, a sentence that stays in the mind until it needs to be written down somewhere to develop. It would seem that without conscious awareness, a writer has these ideas tickling his mind until he laughs in response by giving them substance, i.e., turning them into text.  Eventually they become a thread and he’s the first to ‘read’ the story:<\/p>\n

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Later, as the story developed, this conversation turned\u2013luckily\u2013into an interluding message.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One of the reasons I was reluctant to try Storyspace<\/a><\/em> was that this was how story developed for me, from an opening line, a paragraph, a conversation, running through my head much as persistent tricky lyrics of a song.  How then, I argued, would I deal with plotting and structure when it never occurred to me to write that way.  I was never aware of beginning, middle, or end until each happened in its time.  I have files and files of each–that may never grow to the whole trio.<\/p>\n

What I’m finding out however is that Storyspace<\/em> is perfect for this type of writer’s process.  An odd thought goes into a box (Writing Space), sometimes needing several (another function of SSP, natural breaking into sequence) and tied together so they don’t get lost.  Eventually, boxes are added like cars to a train engine and voila!<\/em> they’re heading somewhere.  The tracks necessarily cross and here’s where the writer begins to understand what’s happening.  Motifs begin to appear.  Patterns.  And a whole lotta random thoughts, lovely prose, becomes a visible story in the hypertext structure of Storyspace<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I think I’ve finally found my niche. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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