{"id":378,"date":"2007-11-24T09:22:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=378"},"modified":"2007-11-24T09:22:07","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T16:22:07","slug":"storyspace-hypertext-motive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/storyspace-hypertext-motive\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: Hypertext Motive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>n seeking the best options of maneuvering through a hypertext piece, and keeping with the original intent of this body of work (Paths) I&#8217;m learning to study the tools available in Storyspace to see not only what I can do, but if I can do what I want.&nbsp; One thought process leads to another and another and gee, that&#8217;s just like hypertexting, isn&#8217;t it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This thought came up: what if, seeing that there are four or five separate threads, that at a junction or crossover of two paths, the reader would be allowed to <em>make an informed choice<\/em> as to where he would like to wander? <\/p>\n<p>In the hypertext scenario (from what I&#8217;ve experienced so far, and this idea may be implemented already in someone&#8217;s work of fiction; I know the concept is in action in non-fiction and websites), the reader usually only knows that clicking on a link will bring him some information relative to the text that offers the option.&nbsp; What if the reader is given the additional information of where he is likely to go when he chooses to click on a link?&nbsp; What harm in either numbering or color-coding a path and giving him the choice of following it further, knowing where he is and who he&#8217;s going to be exploring?&nbsp; What is the proper motivation for reading further: merely a link to click on, or another self-contained view from which to discover the narrative?<\/p>\n<p>This is just an idea, but I think that it may actually increase reader freedom even as a more structured form is built underneath by the writer.<\/p>\n<p>Something to work on today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span>n seeking the best options of maneuvering through a hypertext piece, and keeping with the original intent of this body of work (Paths) I&#8217;m learning to study the tools available in Storyspace to see not only what I can do, but if I can do what I want.&nbsp; One thought process leads to another and [&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-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","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=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}