{"id":74,"date":"2008-06-28T07:42:27","date_gmt":"2008-06-28T14:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=74"},"modified":"2008-06-28T07:42:27","modified_gmt":"2008-06-28T14:42:27","slug":"storyspace-well-yes-i-should-have-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/06\/storyspace-well-yes-i-should-have-but\/","title":{"rendered":"STORYSPACE: Well yes, I <em>should<\/em> have, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he idea for the story was right there in the park in Pittsburgh.&nbsp; The visuals, the things I watched and thought about that blossomed into concrete narrative right there in front of me.&nbsp; Back and forth I wondered whether I should take a few pictures; the pigeon, the people, the shoe.<\/p>\n<p>No! the purist in me shouted.&nbsp; You are a writer first and foremost and should not need the graphic image to enhance the story.&nbsp; You should be able&#8211;if you&#8217;re any good at all&#8211;to draw the images with words. <\/p>\n<p>Well, I can try to do that, yes.&nbsp; The problem though is that I&#8217;ve just considered that this will be a short story in Storyspace (because that&#8217;s the form the story seeks and wants itself to be!).&nbsp; And then it comes to me that perhaps this particular story is the perfect vehicle for implementing the audio and visual opportunities of Storyspace that I&#8217;ve wanted to play with way back when.<\/p>\n<p>The sound is humming in my mind, the pictures flashing through; and here I sit without a single dopey pigeon picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he idea for the story was right there in the park in Pittsburgh.&nbsp; The visuals, the things I watched and thought about that blossomed into concrete narrative right there in front of me.&nbsp; Back and forth I wondered whether I should take a few pictures; the pigeon, the people, the shoe. No! the purist in [&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-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storyspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}