(2007-09-04) Ersinghaus Writing Hypertext

SteveErsinghaus's experience in authoring HyperText (in StorySpace). It takes time to understand that in Storyspace, editing is a non-linear process, where linking can take the place of idea moving. In Storyspace, the writer doesn’t move a paragraph, though this is possible to do, he or she simply relates it to something else via a link. Interesting question: what do you leave in, even if shunted off to a part of the bits-network that might never get read? In TLGS, there are many areas of the text the reader will never see because they are simply bypassed. They are a sort of idea-based archaeology, bits of broken pottery that over time, I found no use for in the paths of the novel, such as a stretch of action that appeared at one time to supply the answer to a quandary, but that become too burdensome to keep in the possible flow.