{"id":427,"date":"2007-11-09T06:42:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T13:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=427"},"modified":"2007-11-09T06:42:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T13:42:57","slug":"storyspace-work-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/11\/storyspace-work-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: Work Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>hen I woke up this morning I found myself once again anxious to get back into the program.  Stumbling down the hall towards the kitchen to make my husband’s lunch (yes, we’re that frugal; think of the $5\/day saved, not to mention a sandwich the way he likes it and fruit, and turning one stupid light off to save $25 a year doesn’t measure up), uh, where was I…..<\/p>\n

…oh yes, I hang a left into the living room and click on the laptop.  I can do this by feel so my eyes don’t necessarily need to be open.  This way, once I’ve kissed my husband out the door I can sit down and start playing immediately.<\/p>\n

One thing I particularly like about the Storyspace program is the additional need to manipulate the text boxes apart from just working with typing words strung into a story.  Even the visual, the mapview (or chart or outline; tree, to me, is dopey, at least for this project), becomes a part of the writing process that once you get used to it, tells a story in itself as to the complication and depth of the narrative.  An easier way of putting it:  How exciting is it to wave even a hardcopy bunch of pages around versus colored plot points all laid out and connected.<\/p>\n

Think the sight of a half-inch of text pages is fulfilling?  Try this: drop them on the floor from a height of six feet (all right, I’m really reaching here).  Pick them back up at random and read.  Then try to make sense of it.<\/p>\n

Back to the main point here, and that is that where I used to play Freecell or some such idiot game as think time or not-think-at-all time, the Storyspace environment fulfills that need to tinker, to be actively doing something creative even when the creativity does not filter into language use and storytelling.   I noticed this same level of excitement–above story–in putting together a poem in Movie Maker.  Coordinating visuals, audio, and story wasn’t just a bunch of creative ideas, but required the manipulation of technical software direction in order to make the whole thing work.  Storyspace does this for me.  It’s like playing a game while you write. <\/p>\n

So now I don’t have to go to Freecell or Solitaire to be productive (using that loosely here) while my mind is taken with the thought process of story prior to it becoming a tangible typed text. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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