Hypertext Composition process

I'd like to call attention to an important comment Lulu made to my recent post about hypertext composition method. She discusses how ideas develop during and out of the process of writing -- an idea that I think doesn't get enough play in discussions of writing process and poetics, perhaps because some of us (like me) find it difficult to pin down and analyze. She mentions preferring non-visual modes of operation. This interests me because I think my own extensive and reflexive dependence on visuality may tend to lead me into analyzing things, including Websites and hypertext narratives, as static or non-temporal -- something that might be applied to Patchwork Girl and Victory Garden, for instance, which use spatial, nontemporal metaphors for narrative.

I've heard things that seem like this referred to as "dialogic" consciousness or method. Bakhtin writes about this, but doesn't seem too interested in minutely examining how the consciousness itself works or how a dialog evolves between an author and an expanding work.

I would be particularly interested in knowing how people who don't like diagrams and so forth model writing and narrative projects. Of course, models tend to be visual or spatial, so model may be the wrong word, but it would be interesting to find what kind of metaphors and processes work for people. It might tell us all a lot about process.