Epilogue

My experimental story is what I like to say, to borrow a well known concept within the painting arts, a triptych. The idea is to present three scenes and a fourth 'final' scene whereby the three scenes come together. Each scene has something to do with each other, there are a few constants, like the weather and location, the point in time where the bang! took place. Although it is this very bang! that the reader aids in the story, it is the readers bang! not the writer's that is the missing part here.

I got the idea from a film by mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu called Amores Perros, translated loosely as "Love's a Bitch". (quotation from preceding link). 

I would like to give the reader a chance, a part, in the making of this story, since I, as the writer, am not giving away a part of the story in question, the reader, by way of the short, snippets, or fragments, can link together the characters and events that led to the 'final' conclusion of the story. It is her or his 'reality' of what took place what makes up the rest of the story.

The weaknesses lie in that it is too abstract to formulate a handy-made finished product. Furthermore,  it might be too short and lack the peak that I want the reader himself or herself to formulate by way of their imagination. It might requiere more than one read. The details might not stick.

The strong side is that it might actually work and the reader might just find that story telling is fun when the reader is made to include a part of the story him or herself.

Linguistics ….

Some of the language adapts to the situation so as the thief comes into focus the language changes as well, or if the character is more casual the language becomes then casual.

As far as the hypertext is concerned, I thought that images were unnecessary not because I mulled over it but because I thought that the language would take care of that. The thoughts behind this assertion is that I believe that I use enough cognitive grammar to bring in the reader close enough to the story and objects thereby mentioned to provide said images. I believe in mental imagery because I have such a vivid imagery faculty in my head. Although the java gimmicks aid nicely to the distortion of the text to bring about an illusion that text is nothing but in the screen and your head thus providing a nice effect in that it resembles a page turning or tv effect switching to another image.

Post Data

In one of my other courses I read Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior and sifting through the internet for more information regarding this document some interesting data came up relevant for this Creative Writing piece. It turns out that what I thought as innovative is very much practiced in the East. In an essay done by Lindsay Mochal titled The Clash of Writing Styles in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior weread that:

"... Chinese readers are used to being asked to infer certain points on their own with only a little help from the author.  Shen explains that this technique, included in both creative writing and criticism, is known as “yijing.”  Shen defines yijing as "the process of creating a pictorial environment while reading a piece of literature” (537).  Yijing is meant to keep the reader active in the story by forcing the reader to decide what the author had in mind while writing the story.  The reader has to develop the picture described by the author."

So I'm glad that this sort of writing, one that I seem to be at ease with presents to me more models to look at for future reference.

I've also incorporated some of my Creative Writing colleagues input as well as professor Jon Buscall's input into the new layout of the cybertext who recommended I do a one, three partite, window which was done with frames. Olga made some changes although she is still the same in many respects.

Many of my colleagues wanted an explanation as to the colors I chose regarding the layout, there wasn't any much palnning in that respect as far as combining the colors and keeping it plain and simple. I really didn't want other than the text to standout, as it turns out, layout in this sort of cybertext is of importance. Although I chose to retain the colors I see how this affects the reader.