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Not discouraged
Some synchronicity this week: I started reading Reading Hypertext and the hypertext I submitted to a college review got rejected. (I feel shy about saying which one, I don’t know if it’s a breach of protocol or what.) I submitted a long long time ago and so I had not looked at the piece in a while, and when I did again tonight, my mind went hmm and not in the good way. If I were going to pick a negative word right now to describe it, I would go with safe. It feels like I’m terrified of losing the reader in structure. hmm.
I’m not sure if I will try to fix it, submit elsewhere, or just throw it up here. (Which btw is partially why I haven’t put up any new stories in a good long while. Also Twine work.) Need to sleep on it, probably repeatedly.
Reading Hypertext has been simultaneously dismaying and thrilling, as the recurring thought I have had while reading is man, I really have been approaching this completely wrong. Which is a good thing in the long run, as it is the kind of thought that you have while (imagine that) learning — but it also has forced me to re-examine what I’ve been writing recently in a hard cold light. At first I thought what I’ve been working on now is totally wrong… now I think I can see a way I might be able to correct course.
More detailed thoughts on RH when I’m done.
Important coda: I don’t feel discouraged (as the title in big black letters above attests). Just… a little bit in the thick of it.
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I’ve been meaning to post on Reading Hypertext myself and maybe this will spur me on to do so.
I’m only a couple chapters in, but I thought Mark Bernstein’s first chapter had some great insight into the medium that would make it easier for readers of hypertext to understand.
Don’t know what the French menu’s about…