#telescopic text

[florafaunaandeldritchhorrors]

Halloween Challege, Day 29: The Mirror

Telescopic Text is a cool website where you can make a story that expands from a single sentence by clicking on words. Writing stuff for it is very interesting and relies a lot on momentum.

It’s also mostly abandoned, so there’s the constant terror that your work could disappear at any time, which is a horror story in another way.

[isoren245]

An expanding story…

[wg-collectives]

An expanding story…

This brief text is an example of what Ted Nelson called stretchtext, or in the author's terms, telescopic text. The text begins with three simple words: I made tea, but clicking on each word expands the word into a phrase, in which more words are highlighted and can in turn be expanded. The final narrative, which still describes an individual making a cup of tea, is a few hundred words long.

The author also provides a link to the tools used to create this kind of telescopic text, and invites readers to create their own.

Another more complex example of stretchtext is Judd Morrissey's The Jew's Daughter.

(source: http://elmcip.net/)

[thesweetjar]

This is amazing 

[bornunderpunchesima]

An exploration of scale and levels of detail. How much or little is contained within the tiniest, most ordinary of moments.

[fortheloveofsnark-blog]

An exploration of scale and levels of detail. How much or little is contained within the tiniest, most ordinary of moments.

[ryangoslinginadinosauronesie]

An exploration of scale and levels of detail. How much or little is contained within the tiniest, most ordinary of moments.

this is so profound and entertaining <3 

[isosceles--triangles]

An exploration of scale and levels of detail. How much or little is contained within the tiniest, most ordinary of moments.

This is ridiculous. It really puts prose in perspective.