There was no need to run away. She wouldn't run off to Vegas in a rash attempt at sudden fame and stardom. All this time she had thought she needed to escape to become the person she wanted to be, but in actuality, all she needed was to take a good look at herself, exactly where she was.
She had come full circle.
She had started at the beginning of the staircase and climbed all the way to the top, where she discovered something beautiful, something unexpected. Just beyond that tiny, cramped, back-alley staircase that reminded her of Greece, she found a beautiful, open space with a view of the HOLLYWOOD sign.
The inspiring view was more than just a metaphor for Daisy.
She had climbed from the bottom, the very first step, all the way to the top of the staircase, and discovered that she had been thinking about this all wrong.
In the beginning, she was scattered, clumsy.
In the beginning, she was lost.
In the beginning, she was no one.
Now, she had a plan.
Now, she knew exactly where she was.
Now, she was someone.
She would stay in Los Angeles, CA. It was exactly where she needed to be. After all she was still young. She had plenty of time and ideas to create her life.
It was a new beginning. It was the top of the staircase.
She took a deep breath, and leaped.
This blog project has been a prime example of intertextuality. Despite the many different styles, themes, and storylines of the individual blogs in our network, they all have been connected in ways that still make sense and move stories forward as well as create stories through their combinations. My own blog style was less about the narrative of the story and more about the reflection and metaphors that were used to tell the story. The use of a staircase as a metaphor for life is a text that successfully moved my storyline forward, but it also told a story of its own. The title of my blog is “Stepping Out of the Box,” which was intended to prepare the audience for a rather “out there” kind of experience. It isn’t the traditional narrative blog, but rather the reflective process that it takes to come up with a narrative worthy of telling. By interacting with other students’ blogs, I was able to move my own story forward through similar themes as well as words that were pulled from or inspired by the interactive blog. In this sense, my blog actually benefitted from and progressed because of the pool of ideas that were present in the network of blogs. The fascinating part about this network of blogs is that it allows for ALL of the blogs to do the same thing, and when all of the blogs are able to progress because of the previous blog, the network actually moves forward together in a way, continuously pooling the ideas together to create a text that is both singular and shared. Much like the “Pedestrian Story” within the novel of Vas, the blogs contain multiple stories within each other, telling a story that leads to another and another and another. The network of texts also leaves room for a more open-ended kind of experience, one which creates an opportunity for originality from both the authors and the characters within the pages.
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