The assignment over the weekend was to create links from our Calvino incipits that either had meaning, didn’t have meaning, enhanced or didn’t enhance your story. For the most part, it seemed like most people had links that were just playing off the words they chose. It did seem apparent that everyone had at least one or two links that were very enhancing to their story. In particular were the words that were linked to another persons’ incipit. An example is Ann’s story and how she linked it to mine. At the end of her story, you sense that one of the characters was being chased by the law, only to get away at the last minute. She linked the last sentence in her story to my incipit. My story was about being in complete isolation in prison. The link here may be subtle but I thought that her story was a segway in to mine, and it was a great choice of her to link it so. <\/p>\n
When reading these "choose your own adventure" stories, I was trying to think how there is a link between them and the hypertexts we made. I guess you can say that we as the author of the hypertext choose where you go via the links. In a way, the author of the short stories chooses your path as well, only I think the reader has a little more of a choice when it comes to the short stories. I think that the short stories are a little more guided than the hypertexts. The different paths in a "choose your own adventure" book also are all connected with one another and are both enhansive to the text as well as coherent. The links to our hypertexts were at most times random and had little to do with the story itself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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