{"id":371,"date":"2007-11-28T21:29:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T04:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=371"},"modified":"2007-11-28T21:29:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T04:29:18","slug":"storyspace-plot-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/storyspace-plot-points\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: Plot Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">Y<\/span>ou can read your own work a zillion times and yet when you&#8217;re looking for something in particular, breaking a story down into sequencing of plot points, you see it in an entirely different way.&nbsp; In <em>Paths<\/em>, since I&#8217;m attempting to make a more interesting maze that remains logical and flowing from a beginning to an end, I&#8217;m looking for the areas in which I can allow wandering off into foreshadowing and backstory that will still come around to the main trail and go forward.<\/p>\n<p>One of the best uses of <em>Storyspace <\/em>is in separating the plot points into the series of text boxes that build upon yet remain aloof from each other.&nbsp; These mini stories will become loops that serve as the plot points.&nbsp; In the end, these plot points not onlyy move the narrative forward, but enhance each other by alluding to a story that is never really put into words.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, I&#8217;ve made yet a third version of <em>Paths<\/em> and am placing the blocks in different piles to build a new structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">Y<\/span>ou can read your own work a zillion times and yet when you&#8217;re looking for something in particular, breaking a story down into sequencing of plot points, you see it in an entirely different way.&nbsp; In Paths, since I&#8217;m attempting to make a more interesting maze that remains logical and flowing from a beginning to [&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-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","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=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}