Reading Choices & Navigation

A story is a quest, a treasure hunt, an expedition across lands both known and unknown.

contents page:

  • lists the main narratives — the mapped routes and main highways of this journey

  • provides a link to the beginning of each main narrative

main narratives:

  • title — name of a mapped route, identified in header & footer

  • “back / next” links — linear guide along that highway

  • text links — related content off the highway

  • “return to Our Story” links — return to a mapped route, but not necessarily at the location where the traveler last exited

images:

  • link to their source for attribution

  • open in a new window; close window to return

text links:

  • leading off-site — marked by asterisk (*), opens in new window; close window to return

  • staying on-site — can go anywhere within the Golden Bones project — Lostness happens — see below for remedies

Links divert the traveler away from the known route for a non-linear, uncharted experience. Following a link may result in —

  • side trips on un-mapped tracks and trails

  • rest stops at way stations and shrines

  • detours along lesser known roads

  • bridge crossings between main highways

Lostness happens.

Some options for finding a Way on the journey:

  • keep going

  • back out using browser back button

  • reorient using hamburger icon (collapsed menu icon)

  • search using magnifying glass icon

  • curse the storyteller

  • resolve to stay on the mapped route and avoid distraction

  • embrace distraction as discovery

  • reframe failure as enlightenment

“… always be an explorer, a nomad within the realm of the unconscious.”
— Fanny Brewster*

Golden Bones is a work-in-progress.