{"id":398,"date":"2007-11-16T18:33:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T01:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=398"},"modified":"2007-11-16T18:33:58","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T01:33:58","slug":"writing-hypertext-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/writing-hypertext-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"WRITING: Hypertext Readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span> did get the impression today that the one drawback to writing in hypertext format is that your available readers are at a premium.&nbsp; Either that, or I need to find some younger, more with-it, open-minded friends.<\/p>\n<p>Just discussing the project, talking about what I was doing and how exciting it is brought out the admission from two separate friends that they didn&#8217;t like the original narrative that was laid out in text form on real paper.&nbsp; They hated flipping back and forth between pages.&nbsp; Ah, so that&#8217;s why they never mentioned reading it.&nbsp; Even my explanation that it is totally a different animal now brought further excuses&#8211;it seems both much prefer reading a book in book form; not on a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not ready to have anything read, but I&#8217;m thinking that up ahead I may have to form another writers group, specifically for hypertext writing.&nbsp; I&#8217;m not as concerned with proofreading, that&#8217;s one thing I do almost as well as any writer can on his own work (except for tense and semicolons). Outside of a classroom where hypertext fiction is studied, I think a writer may find it hard to interest friends and family into service.&nbsp; It&#8217;s hard enough to force them to read straight stories sometimes, and two out of five of my hardiest readers, those that made it through a novel ten years ago, are dead.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Something to think about.&nbsp; Though Christmas is coming, and what better gift than a story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span> did get the impression today that the one drawback to writing in hypertext format is that your available readers are at a premium.&nbsp; Either that, or I need to find some younger, more with-it, open-minded friends. Just discussing the project, talking about what I was doing and how exciting it is brought out the [&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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}