My experience as an author of non-linear texts is confined to a narrative project my 5th grade teacher had us do. This is 1996. We used a program called Hyperstudio, a sort of Powerpoint meets Kidpix which allowed you to use buttons (links, essentially, but they were called buttons in Hyperstudio) that transported you to another page.

The thing was, being 1996, our classroom only had a few computers, so the teacher had us diagram our 2nd person plots beforehand so as to speed up the hyperstudioing once it was our turn on the machine.

I remember very well how quickly my story web became tangled and incoherent.

This is a map of "Night of a Thousand Boyfriends"

Night of a Thousand Boyfriends"

I wonder what 1st person novels would look like, mapped so. Some would undoubtably be straight lines, but there might be intersections for plotlines coming together, circles for cyclical narratives, or mutiple branch endings for ambiguities.

In other news, I’m still running and losing weight. I’m down about 23 pounds from my heaviest weight on July 15 and still hoping to shed about 20 more pounds. But, as you might imagine, I’m very happy with my progress so far. I have no real secret on how I lost the weight. I’m simply eating less and better (more vegetables, less carbs), almost never eating between meals, and exercising more.

(the "other news isn't me", it's chuck tryon from his sep. 2 post, it comes as the last bullet after a series of non-personal media links and observations, i just included it because i thought it was funny and it shows how close the blog brings us to the blogger, this isn't his book, his article, or even his class, it's his blog and he almost never eats between meals)