{"id":101,"date":"2005-10-19T21:52:16","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T01:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/10\/19\/weekly-response-4\/"},"modified":"2005-10-19T21:52:16","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T01:52:16","slug":"weekly-response-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2005\/343\/2005\/10\/19\/weekly-response-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I first started to read through Afternoon, a story<\/u><\/em>, I went through and read what was said.  It all started out as what seemed to be a fairly "normal" story that had a linear progression to it.  In the beginning of reading this, however, there were a few instances of when all of a sudden the characters, settings, and subjects being talked about would seem to change.  I didn’t think much of it at first, but after I noticed this change the second time, I hit the "return to previous writing space" button and tried to make sense of what the connection was.  Usually I couldn’t make a connection and just went forward with the reading.  After spending more time with the story,  I felt that the pace was staring to pick up and I wasn’t as confused at the content I was reading about as I was in the beginning.  Then, once I started to be able to follow a story-line (it seems there are a few here), there would be a page that I had read before.  When I read it the first time, it didn’t make sense in the context of what I was reading.  When I read it the second time, however, it did seem to flow and make sense.  An example of this is when I first read about the two men in their office and the waitress comes to them with coffee.  One of the men made a crude comment to her and she walked on out.  It seemed like this page was just thrown in there in the beginning of the story to possibly throw the reader — or maybe keep his\/her attention due to the comment.  The second time this page came up, it seemed to have more of a propper fit with the rest of the story.  There seemed to be more supportive pages surrounding it, rather than just having a random page pop up.<\/p>\n

Maybe it was due to the fact that I would hit the Y or N button when a question was asked.  I noticed that typically, neither button took you to a different location, even when answering a question.  I hit the "return to previous writing space" button more than once to make sure I wasn’t missing anything by not hitting the Y or N button.  It turned out that no matter what I hit — enter, left-click, Y or N — it would take me to the same page.  I had the thought of the CYOA books while going through this, but as it turned out for me anyway, it didn’t seem to have as many branches as a CYOA novel.  For the most part, I felt it had a linear progression.  In a few ways, it did break from the normal novel-writing convention.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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