{"id":407,"date":"2007-11-14T11:20:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T18:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=407"},"modified":"2007-11-14T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T18:20:01","slug":"storyspace-more-on-writing-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/storyspace-more-on-writing-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: More on Writing Spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span> feel very guilty doing this, since the whole purpose of the program is to link things, not repeat them, but for the second or third time now I find myself duplicating the text within a Writing Space.&nbsp; This was done once for convenience, just to avoid the link to a single Space and back again with all the guard fields necessary to keep the reader from going ahead into one of the other stories where things wouldn&#8217;t make sense.&nbsp; Now I find it a useful way of tying things in without linking (sorry, Mark!).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>What happened was this:&nbsp; I saw another scenario for the end of story #1, and in writing it, realized that something similar had come up (out of the blue, unrelated, different person, blah-blah) in Story #3.&nbsp; Well, in working traditionally, that snippet likely wouldn&#8217;t be there, and if it were, it&#8217;d be moved once I saw this better spot for it.&nbsp; I have the option to link, but since I want to take that particular snippet and change a word or two, as well as expand upon it here in Story #1, I think it&#8217;s neat to be able to repeat it, though not verbatim.&nbsp; A reader will make the connection, I&#8217;m sure, once he&#8217;s read both pieces of text in their own contexts, and will not need to go back for confirmation.&nbsp; Plus, maybe I don&#8217;t want him to do that.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Now you just couldn&#8217;t do that without considerable skill in unhypertexted narrative (unhypertexted, def: old-fashioned straight linear text without reason or ability for wandering unless that much of a skimmer).<\/p>\n<p>The capability of duplicating a piece of story here is along the lines of creating leit motif perhaps.&nbsp; A recurrence that becomes recognizable.&nbsp; Maybe it&#8217;s just reinforcing a notion of possibilities, or relating the characters to each other by a pattern.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another use of the tool.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">I<\/span> feel very guilty doing this, since the whole purpose of the program is to link things, not repeat them, but for the second or third time now I find myself duplicating the text within a Writing Space.&nbsp; This was done once for convenience, just to avoid the link to a single Space and back [&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-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}