{"id":363,"date":"2007-12-01T09:13:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T16:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=363"},"modified":"2007-12-01T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T16:13:22","slug":"storyspace-link-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/12\/storyspace-link-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: Link Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>n continuing on Mark Bernstein&#8217;s essay, I&#8217;m getting a different feeling about linking.&nbsp; In jumping in blindly, I naturally understood the plot linkage, managed to get creative with some side trails, but ran into unrecognized trouble with the interlinking of the stories.&nbsp; Then and there, I came to depend heavily on guard fields to avoid the stories running into each other without reason or purpose.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>This, from Mark:<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>It is therefore interesting to note that Storyspace writers use them sparingly.&nbsp; In the 28 hypertexts examined, 7 used guard field ubiquitously (in more than 20% of all links).&nbsp; In eight hypertexts, guard fields are used occasionalaly, while in 13, the guard fields are completely absent.&nbsp; Guard fields rarely require more than one clause: the mean guard field in &quot;Afternoon&quot; has 1.63, but few other hypertexts approach this number.&nbsp; &quot;Lust,&quot; a notoriously complex network, averages only 1.04 guard fields.&nbsp; <\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">What this tells me is that I need to set up the original structure as the main device for the hypertext flow and foregoe the dependence upon guard fields to make the connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>n continuing on Mark Bernstein&#8217;s essay, I&#8217;m getting a different feeling about linking.&nbsp; In jumping in blindly, I naturally understood the plot linkage, managed to get creative with some side trails, but ran into unrecognized trouble with the interlinking of the stories.&nbsp; Then and there, I came to depend heavily on guard fields to avoid [&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-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}