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[labellementeuse]

Guys, I need some help. I'm writing about how web pages and books are structured differently. It's really easy to give examples for non-fiction (I'm probably going to talk about feminism 101 and TV tropes) but I'm really struggling to think of examples for fiction, especially narrative fiction, because all of the best examples I can think of are, of course, fanfiction. I'd really like to find some stuff that demonstrates flexible narration, like Crysothemis' Fix or Cesperanza's Scrabble; I'd also really like something like Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making that includes links to all parts (instead of just before and after parts) on each page, like most Big Bang fics do, for example. (I feel like before and after merely replicate the structure of the conventional book.)

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[deutscheami.livejournal.com]

I can't give you a good example for fiction, but if you'd like to talk about poetry, Stephanie Strickland wrote V (http://home.roadrunner.com/~strickland10021/V.html),which is a collection of poems that exists in three parts: two printed (Wave Son.nets/Losing L'una), one on the Internet (Vniverse).

She does some really interesting work with structure and access points-- and specifically addresses the poetical narrative structure in one poem--

"7.113

Gentle Reader, begin anywhere. Skip anything. This text
is framed
fully for the purposes of skipping. Of course

7.114

it can
be read straight through, but this is not a better reading,
not a better life."

--"Errand Upon Which We Came"