I find myself circling back again to the question of interactivity (probably should take a hint that it’s important to this project). I’ve begun doing some technical experiments with Nuxt (a JavaScript framework), which seems like a good option that would hypothetically allow me to build most of the interactive elements that I’ve been envisioning. But now to make the decision I’ve been putting off: which interactive elements I actually want to incorporate.
Month: March 2024
As I hoped, the Story Roots for Sustainable Futures intensive provided fruitful inspiration for refining and deepening my story-within-the-story — though, perhaps, not in the ways I expected.
The title of this post is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, because if anything, my first supervision meeting pushed me to consider my project from a big-picture perspective — to articulate its themes and throughlines as I’m currently envisioning it — in a way that I haven’t done recently. But, on the more practical side, my supervisor Jane also encouraged me to start thinking of it not just as a story (which, given my experience and inclinations, tends to default to a novel), but rather as a story of 9,000 words, and to use that as a lens for clarifying and narrowing in on the aspects I’m truly interested in. To that end, two noteworthy shifts in my thinking arose.
