Interesting, yes. But can anyone see a story in it? _Any_ story:
yours, mine, someone else's, as long as there appears to be a story
and not merely a collection of random objects. Generating a coherent
whole from the random components is really what I'm after.
This comes back to an earlier point, when I suggested the user
provide 'scripts' of what they want to develop within their world.
While it is not altogether necessary, or perhaps desirable, it will
allow us to 'see' what the user of such a system expects?
This again is a problem of coherence management.
Without turning vlists into a writers group, it would probably be
a worthwhile exercise to encourage more automatic writing, so we
can continue to see how we could encapsulate the writer's thoughts
within VR?
I think if we can transform the writings into the realm of the visual,
or into a plotline for a multi-user experience, we'll be doing ok.
There are some points within your writing that may be quite
difficult to represent, for example it is easy, (I use the term
loosely) to portray a bloated mother, but how do you imply that
the cause is grandeur?
The phrase in question is:
The mother of ten projects wants her busy head to spin
partially off, and her body to bloat with grandeur.
Spinning the head and bloating the body are easy, as you say.
"with grandeur" would require some kind of symbolic representation, as
it can't be rendered directly. She could wear a very fancy hoop
skirt. Or else be accompanied by the fanfare of trumpets.
"of ten projects" is also problematic. How do you render a _project_?
One's personal projects could be just about anything. "Project" is a
generic class of object that could be represented by any number of
specific instances. How is a viewer going to even vaguely recognize a
collection of 10 objects as being related by the fact that they are
all "projects" of the author? It seems difficult to take an abstract
noun such as "project," and produce anything other than wholesale
confusion.
Cheers,
Brandon