The End, for now
I've made more progress than I ever expected to this year. Looking back, I'm amazed at how much I crammed into one semester.
I didn't do any blogs other than the required ones this time, simply because my term project was so big that I barely had time. I'll be honest, when I wrote my alpha report, I wasn't sure if I was going to finish on time.
I guess my interest in hypertext fiction began when we read The Heist, which I talk about in my initial term project report as being the main inspiration behind my final project. As soon as that was in my head, I think my term project was starting to form. I was also influenced by the University of Yellow Wallpaper and The Body. The climax came when I did an extensive in-depth analysis of several pieces of electronic literature.
It hasn't all been hypertext, of course, though I'll go to a great distance to drag creative writing into anything. In the beginning of the year, (and I'm most proud of this, I think) I spent a lot of time speculating about human communication, behavior, and the effects that blogging and the information age in general might have on languages and laws. Alex and I had a particularly good discussion about the future of our language, something that's always been important to me.
I was able to experience the creative side of writing for internet with text adventures and IF games. While I was really excited to finally code my own IF game, I didn't get to explore the medium as much as I'd have liked to. Maybe over the summer, if I'm feeling particularly motivated. Who knows?
I also finally learned how to use CSS, thanks to Castro, and Kilian's instructions have made sure that my paragraphs are noticeably shorter, and my blog entries sound less and less like raving livejournal entries every day. Or so I hope.
I edited Wikipedia, something I'd never have had the courage to do if I wasn't being graded on it. I remember how I was terrified that I'd bring down the wrath of a thousand angry admins who had nothing better to do than watch the Feral Parrot article and smite anyone who tried to make changes.
I've done my best to give feedback to my classmates as they struggle through their projects. I've given feedback to Dani's project as it transformed, because I've been sitting next to her the whole time, and I tested Jed's game and Aero's site when they was still in the early stages. I also gave some feedback to Aja and Jessie, which I'm pretty proud of myself for. I'm sure I did more but, once again, my comments are nowhere to be found because I'm a wreck.
Well, I think that just about covers it!
<3, Christina
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I didn't do any blogs other than the required ones this time, simply because my term project was so big that I barely had time. I'll be honest, when I wrote my alpha report, I wasn't sure if I was going to finish on time.
I guess my interest in hypertext fiction began when we read The Heist, which I talk about in my initial term project report as being the main inspiration behind my final project. As soon as that was in my head, I think my term project was starting to form. I was also influenced by the University of Yellow Wallpaper and The Body. The climax came when I did an extensive in-depth analysis of several pieces of electronic literature.
It hasn't all been hypertext, of course, though I'll go to a great distance to drag creative writing into anything. In the beginning of the year, (and I'm most proud of this, I think) I spent a lot of time speculating about human communication, behavior, and the effects that blogging and the information age in general might have on languages and laws. Alex and I had a particularly good discussion about the future of our language, something that's always been important to me.
I was able to experience the creative side of writing for internet with text adventures and IF games. While I was really excited to finally code my own IF game, I didn't get to explore the medium as much as I'd have liked to. Maybe over the summer, if I'm feeling particularly motivated. Who knows?
I also finally learned how to use CSS, thanks to Castro, and Kilian's instructions have made sure that my paragraphs are noticeably shorter, and my blog entries sound less and less like raving livejournal entries every day. Or so I hope.
I edited Wikipedia, something I'd never have had the courage to do if I wasn't being graded on it. I remember how I was terrified that I'd bring down the wrath of a thousand angry admins who had nothing better to do than watch the Feral Parrot article and smite anyone who tried to make changes.
I've done my best to give feedback to my classmates as they struggle through their projects. I've given feedback to Dani's project as it transformed, because I've been sitting next to her the whole time, and I tested Jed's game and Aero's site when they was still in the early stages. I also gave some feedback to Aja and Jessie, which I'm pretty proud of myself for. I'm sure I did more but, once again, my comments are nowhere to be found because I'm a wreck.
Well, I think that just about covers it!
<3, Christina
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