well this is going to be steep
I have downloaded Twine so I can hypertext Bella and Chain the way I have allways envisioned (and finish it). However, the instructions appear to be--well--missing might be the word for it. There's a wiki, but it is very broad and has no specifics in it, And there is a forum, but the questions people are dealing with are quite advanced,
Right now the questions I'm trying to answer are so basic:
1. How do I make a link to a previous passage (which may be on another branch[honestly, I have made this word up because the terminology list doesn't include this concept], or earlier in the same one)? I want to be able to link back to Nonyomni's threads from anywhere in the story so that if for example a person is following Bella's thread they can find a link to the passage where Nonyomni tells some background information about Harry Smith. But the instructions only tell you how to create a new passage to link to. Also I think maybe the passage has to be linked to from the same words as its title? There appears to be a way to code it so it displays a different title, which might solve that problem if I figure out the way to do this at all. It would seem like a pretty primary thing to do, though, right?
Also, I want people to be able to read the whole thing chronologically, or read each character's thread individually, or to follow other threads I will make for them.
2. How do I fix a broken link? I can't even figure out why these links are broken in the first place. I can find them because Twine kindly colors them red instead of blue. But when I try to fix the link I get a new passage instead. For now I'm copying the material into the new passage, but this is dumb. There has to be a way to just fix what I've got.
Also, this time around I'm going to make a thread of her own for Forager Girl, and highlight the growing friendship between Forager Girl and Bella.
Fake edit:with broken links I'm just deleting them entirely and redoing them. Cut and paste means it's not that time consuming, I wish I could see what's wrong with the links that are broken: I think I'm making them exactly as I do the others, and I can't see anything different about them.
I have now watched what tutorial videos there are and none of them have mentioned, that I could see, "and here is how you create a link to an existing passage."
in other writing work I did today: some few hundred words on the villain story, some tens of words on the gestational specialist story. And some record keeping. I seem to have submitted 132 thousand words this year, and the longest piece was 52 thousand.
on another front, I am in the last stages of making membrillo (quince paste). My quinces were not perfect, but the membrillo looks like it will be heavenly. What did I do? chopped it up fine, cooked the chopped part till it was gooshy and pink and the cooking water was almost gone, ran it through a mill, cooked it again at low temperature stirring every 3 minutes (with a timer because otherwise it would surely burn) until it was half the size and sticky and would hold a shape more or less, and then made it into a rectangular cake on the silicone sheet that came with the dehydrator, and now it is running in the dehydrator. I have no idea how long till it is a sturdy, solid coke of quinced paste.
I still have two giant quinces. I believe I will stew one of them with lamb or chicken and candy the other for Chrismas cakes.
on yet another front: I have to confront my neighbors, alas. I have come to the realization that their skunkweed smoking on the balcony isn't just annoying (when I say skunkweed, I am understating how nasty their dope smells), but it's making me ill. I hate to be the nasty old lady next door, but this is out of hand. It penetrates all the way across my house and I believe that the reason I couldn't get out of bed till noon yesterday was the effects of passive dope intake.
Right now the questions I'm trying to answer are so basic:
1. How do I make a link to a previous passage (which may be on another branch[honestly, I have made this word up because the terminology list doesn't include this concept], or earlier in the same one)? I want to be able to link back to Nonyomni's threads from anywhere in the story so that if for example a person is following Bella's thread they can find a link to the passage where Nonyomni tells some background information about Harry Smith. But the instructions only tell you how to create a new passage to link to. Also I think maybe the passage has to be linked to from the same words as its title? There appears to be a way to code it so it displays a different title, which might solve that problem if I figure out the way to do this at all. It would seem like a pretty primary thing to do, though, right?
Also, I want people to be able to read the whole thing chronologically, or read each character's thread individually, or to follow other threads I will make for them.
2. How do I fix a broken link? I can't even figure out why these links are broken in the first place. I can find them because Twine kindly colors them red instead of blue. But when I try to fix the link I get a new passage instead. For now I'm copying the material into the new passage, but this is dumb. There has to be a way to just fix what I've got.
Also, this time around I'm going to make a thread of her own for Forager Girl, and highlight the growing friendship between Forager Girl and Bella.
Fake edit:with broken links I'm just deleting them entirely and redoing them. Cut and paste means it's not that time consuming, I wish I could see what's wrong with the links that are broken: I think I'm making them exactly as I do the others, and I can't see anything different about them.
I have now watched what tutorial videos there are and none of them have mentioned, that I could see, "and here is how you create a link to an existing passage."
in other writing work I did today: some few hundred words on the villain story, some tens of words on the gestational specialist story. And some record keeping. I seem to have submitted 132 thousand words this year, and the longest piece was 52 thousand.
on another front, I am in the last stages of making membrillo (quince paste). My quinces were not perfect, but the membrillo looks like it will be heavenly. What did I do? chopped it up fine, cooked the chopped part till it was gooshy and pink and the cooking water was almost gone, ran it through a mill, cooked it again at low temperature stirring every 3 minutes (with a timer because otherwise it would surely burn) until it was half the size and sticky and would hold a shape more or less, and then made it into a rectangular cake on the silicone sheet that came with the dehydrator, and now it is running in the dehydrator. I have no idea how long till it is a sturdy, solid coke of quinced paste.
I still have two giant quinces. I believe I will stew one of them with lamb or chicken and candy the other for Chrismas cakes.
on yet another front: I have to confront my neighbors, alas. I have come to the realization that their skunkweed smoking on the balcony isn't just annoying (when I say skunkweed, I am understating how nasty their dope smells), but it's making me ill. I hate to be the nasty old lady next door, but this is out of hand. It penetrates all the way across my house and I believe that the reason I couldn't get out of bed till noon yesterday was the effects of passive dope intake.