As you climb higher, the wind howls. You find a firm branch where you can sit sheltered from the worst of the rain and wind. Suddenly, a bolt of lightening strikes the tree, and with a spasm of fear and rigid muscles, you die.
Story/Story - by David Kolb
As you climb higher, the wind howls. You find a firm branch where you can sit sheltered from the worst of the rain and wind. Suddenly, a bolt of lightening strikes the tree, and with a spasm of fear and rigid muscles, you die.
I know this is just a sample story, but doesn't this branch also end too suddenly?
The story is kept small so it won't get in the way of the meta-story.
Our problem is that weve decided to slim down the demo story branches so much that they barely qualify as stories.
They do have beginnings and endings, just not much middle. And they do fit into the overall movement, especially when reread. Writers tell themselves a story about the likely paths readers will follow. The writer imagines a movement with the reader experiencing beginning, middle, end, decisions, and outcomes. That pattern of movement is separate from the chronological sequence of events narrated, and both of these can be separate from the order in which the events are presented in the narrative, which in a hypertext may itself vary.