THESE ARE SOME QUESTIONS I THOUGHT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW THEIR ANSWERS

1.- First of all, where do you take the inspiration to write hypertext?

From the many stories of life, from observation and from a vision I have had since the late 1970's of creating a literature that is experienced differently from the traditional front to back book.

2.- Why did you decided to write 'Afterwards' following the story of 'Party at Silver beach' ?

I was feeling depressed, and I wanted to create a story that suggested many happy endings. Afterwards is kind of an "encore" in the spirit of musical comedy.

3.- Which is the program you use to create your stories?

My stories are all created using structures I created myself using HTML . The structure for Afterwards is a version of a Narrative Data Structure which I originally created in 1992 for Wasting Time. (originally in MS BASIC) It uses both parallel columns of text and slowly appearing text to simulate thought patterns and conversation.

4.- Do you think 'Afterwards' is different from your other works?

Most of my works are longer works which evolve in a series of connected parts. Afterwards is one of my few short works. Another is Interlude - Dorothy and Sid -- http://www.judymalloy.net/dorothy/intertop.html These short works are enjoyable to compose and provide a relaxing interlude for both the writer and the reader.

5.- Which is your vision of the hypertext world nowadays?

This is from a talk I gave at the ELO (Electronic Literature Organization) Conference in 2003: As we look to the future -- expanding the boundaries of literature, exploring new narrative structures, combining words (as well as for instance, words and images, words and sound) in new ways -- there is one thing I particularly want to emphasize and that is that issues of definition, of what kind of literature we are creating, are not as important as encouraging an openness to many approaches; as validating the many diverse individual and collaborative approaches which expand the body of electronic literature which we in this field are shaping.

That's all, thank you very much.