In my final project, I decided to return to my twine and expand it, refocus it, and tie it up. I returned to this project because I felt that it presented me the opportunity to reengage the poetic problem of author and reader. I think tools like Twine allow the ‘author –>reader’ exchange to restructured into something more equal. When I started this project, I wanted to create a poem that allowed the exchange to be suggestive of a dynamic ‘author <=> reader’ representation. The power of the Write Yourself Poem Twine is not that it allows users to create their own poem; of course they aren’t writing their own poem. But it does allow them to reflectively pick phrases and images that they relate to or ones that they don’t understand and want to pursue further with the hope of creating something meaningful and interesting

In this final draft of the project, as I’ve previously stated, I expanded and changed some of my links. I’ve also drawn out some of the images and changed some of the phrasing to make the poetic language more precise. Perhaps some of the most important changes that I’ve incorporated into my Twine are the addition of a ‘start over’ and ‘the end’ link in several of my pathways. I included these links because I wanted to give users the chance to go back and explore different poems if they were unsatisfied with their results or to force an ending to demonstrate that their poem, though guided, has consequences that can’t be disregarded. The other major change in this version of my Twine is my change from the default interface to the Sugercube option. I was unsure of doing this at first, but when I saw that Sugercube had offered  save and hard restart options I realized that this would further encourage people to explore their choices through the language and the images.

My Twine can be found and explored here –

http://iupengl-757-857-summer2015.wikispaces.com/file/detail/Write%20Yourself%20Poem%284%29.html