Nonfiction works in linked text because it's explicit. Just like a human sentence has

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.