a link will yield to a node that yields more information on a given subject without conflicting with the continuity of the story' (as opposed to Michael Joyce's 'afternoon: a story,' in which the links can entirely transform the reader's experience with the narrative). He writes, 'Many of the hyperstories found online are lacking in content and quality writing because the novelty of hypertext makes all other aesthetic concerns secondary, ' and says, correctly I think, that ' What seems hard to grasp is that the result of a hypertext reading is not anything different from a linear story - the hyperstructure remains invisible to the reader, it is only in place to generate multiple linear readings.' Even more important to my particular construction in 'A Teenager's Dreams,' was Fauth's catagorization of my sort of text as 'advanced footnoting. Jurgen Fauth wrote an essay for the Mississippi Review Web (September 1995) called ' Poles in Your Face: The Promises and Pitfalls of Hyperfiction' that seems to have been severed from its URL, but I, luckily, have a printout. They also have a really great bibliography of on-line readings in hyperfiction theory that I found very helpful. Also, at the end of Guyer's article, she posts a list of web hyperfiction that she calls 'broadly multifarious and completely partial,' but which provided a good beginning point for my investigations on what else was 'out there.'Īn annotated Listing of Web Hyperfiction available through the Hyperizons Fiction Journal. There is more information on myown experience authoring in Storyspace in the Author's Preface. Parts of conversation, bits of description, fragments we hear and see tend to coalesce into remembered wholes.' This pretty much sums up what I hoped to happen after constructing 'A Teenager's Dreams' in Storyspace, where the structure insists upon small pieces of information connected by links. That's where the story is, where the reader joins the writer and the contour of event begins to form. a scissors.' Obviously, the ellipses are yours. A 3-year-old in one of her preschool classes is the author. related by Vivian Paley in her book, The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter. The bulk of her article concerns collaborative fiction, but I believe that much of it applies to tree-fiction and other hypertexts, particularly the following quote about the role of the reader: 'Let me offer one of my favorite stories. The Main Page | The Author's Preface | The Hypertext Version | The Storyspace Map | The Original Linear Version | CommentsĮssays on Fiction Carolyn Guyer's essay on Fiction on the Web appeared in the September 1995 issue of the FEED E-zine. Fiction Project - Other Resources Webliography for 'A Teenager's Dreams' Essays on Fiction | Storyspace Resources | HTML Resources, Web Authoring and Design

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