“So here's where the 'new' in 'new media' comes in. A weave requires a different kind of space than the printed page in order to realize its full potential. Within electronic space, the potential exists, although I would argue it has yet to be exploited fully. Nonetheless, in this environment, the arrangement of textual units has an entirely different set of possibilities than it does within the confines of the printed page. Writing can incorporate strategies of simultaneity, juxtaposition, placement and proximity - each of which can serve a semantic function and impact the experience and order of reading. Not dissimilar to charts and diagrams, the information such attributes delivers makes for a cumbersome translation into linear verbal form - if it could be translated at all. It's all about the visual arrangement."

- Amerika (2000)

The narrative is no longer limited to the printed page . Writers are now creating works to be conveyed through new media. Some of this new media includes the web and Storyspace software. Whilst sustaining the narrative attributes of ‘temporal dimension[s] and, according to some, a causal relationship between events’, these new mediums are providing authors with the ability to make their work interactive and/or to create links (automated or otherwise) in their work, forming a more complex networked structure.

Authors must consider these structures when writing their texts. The reader no longer reads these works in a linear fashion . The series of events is no longer revealed in a chronological fashion. To ensure that the reader understands or interprets events and characters in a sensical way, especially in a hypertext, characters and story lines cannot be dependent on the order that the reader is visually presented with in each node. Story lines, characters and environments can be explored and explained in ways that could never be possible on the written page. Elaborate concepts can be conveyed and complimented through elaborate structures. With the exhaustion of the printed page and the introduction of these new mediums creators have been given the freedom and ability to produce original works. Although it may take some time to adjust, readers have been supplied with a refreshing style of narrative.