i'd appreciate any feedback you have to offer here.

well, i've barely started thinking about my term project and already it has taken a different form. because the romans borrowed so many myths (all of their cool ones) whole cloth from the greeks, it's proving nearly impossible for me to find a myth that exists only in latin documents (i.e. ones that i can read).

To begin, I’m definitely doing the creative project, since, how cool will it be to actually be a “published” hypertext author? Granted we fit into the “amateur” category that exists despite the internet being a reasonably democratic medium, now we can coolly demonstrate to all our friends who probably don’t know that hypertext is that yeah, this is what we do in Writing Machines.

A brief Introduction. This is being posted at, I estimate, 1:30. I estimated at beginning of writing, and won't change it. Will that estimate be accurate? Am I lying? You'll never know and that is exactly the point.

A briefer introduction, which I promise is true. I have been thinking about this project for a week straight at the expense of other work. Such as posting on this blog. My hiatus as been well spent, I promise. I hope. We'll see.

So I'm going to expand upon the contributions I've made to the class wiki and continue with a Quetico based hypertext. I want to write it on a storyspace type program that isn't a wiki. This is important to me because I want readers/users to read the text as a full-screen slideshow and not through their browser. Ideally it would be accessible through the web. I want the hypertext to be navigable through links in the text/images and through an interactive map of the lake country. This way a trip through the text can mirror a trip through the lakes.

I plan on doing the creative option for my term project. As you can probably tell from class, I am resisting the change from novel to hypertext. I like the linearity, the completeness, and the closure that a novel can give me. We’ve talked in class about hypertexts that have been printed into books and many of us have tried to print certain Internet texts (like the Hayle’s essay), which really should stay on the Internet. I would like to go in the opposite direction by changing a printed text into a hypertext.

this didn't come to me in a dream, exactly, but it's still very rough around the edges. i'm hoping to use this space to help me figure out what exactly it is that i want to do and why i want to do it.

this idea for my term project certainly is related to that page i created on the wiki, the one with the very translated myth of io and zeus.