So what I've come up with to work on in class today is this idea- my narrative will be told through objects found hidden within a fist. The reader will choose which fist, and since the objects in the fist propel the story along, the reader will ultimately be in control of the path of the story.
I made a list of objects, typical things you might expect to find in someone's fist. A quarter, a book of matches, a piece of candy, two Advil. I decided that time would also propel the story along, but by months. Each time the reader choose a new fist, three months would pass. The story would start at the beginning of the relationship, and, giving the reader four opportunities to choose over the course of the narrative, end at one year. Would the couple still be together? Married? Breaking up?
Since the only available hand model I could find in such short notice was my husband, I decided to tell the story from the woman's perspective (I guess it also helps that I am one!) I got Mike to pose (fists look so funny with nothing else in the shot, like little gremlin hoofs, I told him) just one good shot of the fists that the reader can choose from over and over, and then shots of alternating hands open while the other remained in the fist, displaying the various objects. I've decided to write the story organically as I go, to capture just how organic the feeling of a relationship going right or going wrong over time can seem. Already I'm excited for this. The incorporation of hypertext is pushing me in a direction I never would have gone before and I love it. I hope that it also makes me write something I never would have written before...
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