Large hypertext narratives almost always need to account for what the reader has already seen in order to decide what should come next. Guard fields were an indispensable tool for letting writers use cycles without leading readers around in endless circles.ĬP: Please explain how “guard fields” work in Storyspace.
Cycles are terribly important to hypertext: they’re the way we perceive hypertext structure. It’s not clear that Twine’s design fully appreciates the crucial role that Storyspace guard fields play in structuring large hypertext narrative.
Storyspace when free#
It’s free and it’s easy to understand, and it’s gathered a nice community around it. It thinks it’s intended for plot-centered hypertext narrative, but of course it can be used for a variety of interesting hypertext stories. Prompt 2: MB: It’s an interesting web application. Current writing may eventually seem like the poetry of the early Tudor period or the prose of the Restoration: overly concerned to be correct and orderly, but visibly gathering itself for Shakespeare and Milton, for Boswell and Austen. The exuberance of links is exhilarating, but we’re only beginning to really understand the rhetoric of links. We say that electronic media has ruined kids’ attention span because they don’t pay enough attention to us: they’re too busy reading 5,000-page novels like Harry Potter and watching 100-hour movies like Buffy, The Vampire Slayer. When middle-aged people with kids and mortgages complain that the kids are too easily distracted, they’re often simply echoing their own distraction. Much of the conversation about links - The Gutenberg Elegies, the silly concern that Google will make us all stupid - is based on our most superficial anxieties about kids today, which is to say about ourselves. Links make manifest the way texts relate to other texts, the way the structure themselves, and the way they restructure our thinking. Links are already transforming serious writing and thoughtful reading. The link is the most important new form of punctuation since the comma. EST sharp.įollowed by the Featured Teller at around 8:00 P.M.
Signup for Open Telling (8-minute slots) starts at 6:45 P.M. Try out a new story, spin an old favorite, or just listen. There are no content restrictions, other than prohibiting deliberately offensive language.
Storyspace when full#
Storytelling of all types and styles, in a friendly, cooperative venue where seasoned tellers and newcomers alike are received with full attention. The Story Space runs every Tuesday Night from 6:45 – 9:00 P.M. This show is intended for ages 16 and older. Tonight Howard will be presenting the first peek of a show he plans to tour nationally (when safe to do so) entitled: “ HOW DO YOU SEE ME”., a show in which identity and stereotype work out their differences. His jaded yet surprisingly tender style has made him a favorite on the storytelling and solo performance scene. Nationally known storyteller Howard Lieberman moved from an un-gentrified section of Brooklyn to bucolic yet insufferably Republican Stillwater MN in 1990. To learn more, or be on our mailing: *protected email* (A new invitation will be posted every Tuesday morning). Click on the Meeting Invitation link in the Banner for the instructions Note: We are on EST (Eastern Standard Time), 5 hours behind GMT, or UTC-5Ģ.
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