Story Breakdown, not easy

Simple, but not easy.  This breaking up a story into palatable chunks.  I do it because I read a considerable amount of online material and when the writing seems to go on interminably on a page I become antsy to get to the end.  There’s something about coming to the end of a page, turning that page, beginning again at the top, reading down the left side, the right side, another turned page, and so on.  I wanted readers of my story offerings to have moments that might “seem” as if they held a real book in hand, the mandatory pauses while that “page” gets turned.  And, the choice to not turn a page at all but simply move on . . .

The tech part of adding links and such between the chunks gets tedious but, once I’d done a few, is easy to do and double-easy to check and see if the link does in fact take readers to the next page intended. 

The not easy part of story breakdown is where to make the breaks.  How to decide if enough has been left to entice the reader to go for more?  At the moment, for me and this Six Degrees Stories collection — it’s very much a game.  Keep hoping for feedback.  But, regardless, I’m enjoying the gameplay. 

A Rose Would Smell as Sweet . . .

Doironscog?>   What was I thinking?  How sad is it that I wanted a rhyme word for blog?  Pretty sad, yes, but not as sad as the way the username looks on the screen, like “Doiron scog,” which sounds like a fungal infection from the dark ages and found in places not politely reachable in public.   In reality it’s meant to be Doiron’s cog.  I liked the definitions of “cog” at dictionary.com, especially number 3. “a person who plays a minor part in a large organization, activity, etc.:  He’s just a small cog in the financial department.”   Translation, for the purposes of this blog, She’s just a small cog in wordsmithing department.”  And also the verb definition, number 5: “to roll or hammer (an ingot, but in my case, a phrase, a word) into a bloom or slab.”   What’s not to like, right?