{"id":395,"date":"2007-11-18T07:31:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-18T14:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=395"},"modified":"2007-11-18T07:31:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-18T14:31:43","slug":"storyspace-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/storyspace-n\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE:  ?(n)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">Y<\/span>eah sure, you find some new trick and you just have to play with it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The code in <em>Storyspace<\/em> <strong>?(n)<\/strong> signals the program to follow a path at random with other paths in a cycle of reading.&nbsp; Which means, if you&#8217;ve only read through that area once, you haven&#8217;t seen the others and ya can&#8217;t get there from here&#8211;unless you go back to the writing space that forked out into these random trails.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve used this code two or three, maybe four times in Paths.&nbsp; I like it.&nbsp; But then again, I know all the other paths because I wrote &#8217;em so I&#8217;m not missing anything.&nbsp; How do I feel about the readers missing them then?&nbsp; How did I feel after reading Michael Joyce&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastgate.com\/catalog\/Afternoon.html\">Afternoon, A Story<\/a><\/em> thinking that I lost out on a good portion of story because I&#8217;m directionally dysfunctional?&nbsp; I know I didn&#8217;t miss a Writing Space of <a href=\"http:\/\/steveersinghaus.com\">Steve Ersinghaus&#8217;<\/a> <em>The Life of Geronimo Sandoval<\/em> because I had a system established, a pattern of read to the end of the space, check out the links (if any) in order, follow to a point, retrace my steps, etc.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I guess it need all be left in the hands of the reader, once it&#8217;s out of the hands of the writer, to walk the straight and narrow, wander off the trail, take the shortcuts, ignore the signs.&nbsp; Hypertext story may be as much prone to driving habits as to those of reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">Y<\/span>eah sure, you find some new trick and you just have to play with it.&nbsp; The code in Storyspace ?(n) signals the program to follow a path at random with other paths in a cycle of reading.&nbsp; Which means, if you&#8217;ve only read through that area once, you haven&#8217;t seen the others and ya can&#8217;t [&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-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","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=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}