not so steep after all
I have figured out how to link to already-existing passages.
It's very simple: just use the title of the already-existing passage as the link and Twine automatically understands you mean that passage. They could have said so somewhere. For people like me who have done minimal html or related work before.
edit: the preliminary work of putting everything already written into passages and creating the links between them actually seems to go pretty fast. What I'll do then is write the unwritten material, putting it into passages and creating links as I go, followed by re-creating the graphical material that was so stupid the first time around and expand on it for the material that hadn't been put in yet, and put it into the right kind of files to be located in the folder and linked to and/or embedded, and then! worry about text styles, special formatting (things like figuring out how to put the personhead by the livejournal names, for example -- oh, and the little twitter bird because chain's entries are being turned into tweets because he's more of a twitter guy I think and now I know how that works and did twitter even exist when I first wrote this? no!)
I don't have much of a plan for how to publish it, though. I think I should make all the files self-contained, as exciting as it would be to have external links, in case I decide to go the e-book route instead of the website route.
this is a between-other-projects project, though, so don't hold your breath. The three of you who remember "Bella and Chain." Even the title might change.
It's very simple: just use the title of the already-existing passage as the link and Twine automatically understands you mean that passage. They could have said so somewhere. For people like me who have done minimal html or related work before.
edit: the preliminary work of putting everything already written into passages and creating the links between them actually seems to go pretty fast. What I'll do then is write the unwritten material, putting it into passages and creating links as I go, followed by re-creating the graphical material that was so stupid the first time around and expand on it for the material that hadn't been put in yet, and put it into the right kind of files to be located in the folder and linked to and/or embedded, and then! worry about text styles, special formatting (things like figuring out how to put the personhead by the livejournal names, for example -- oh, and the little twitter bird because chain's entries are being turned into tweets because he's more of a twitter guy I think and now I know how that works and did twitter even exist when I first wrote this? no!)
I don't have much of a plan for how to publish it, though. I think I should make all the files self-contained, as exciting as it would be to have external links, in case I decide to go the e-book route instead of the website route.
this is a between-other-projects project, though, so don't hold your breath. The three of you who remember "Bella and Chain." Even the title might change.