Jean-Paul switched from being a print author to being an hypermedia
writer, and began searching how hyperlinks could expand his writing
towards new directions. He wrote in June 2000: "Surfing the web is like
radiating in all directions (I am interested in something and I click
on all the links on a home page) or like jumping around (from one click
to another, as the links appear). You can do this in the written media,
of course. But the difference is striking. So the internet changed how
I write. You don't write the same way for a website as you do for a
script or a play. (...) Since then I write directly on the screen: I
use the print medium only occasionally (...): the text is developing
page after page (most of the time), whereas the technique of links
allows another relationship to the time and space of imagination. And,
for me, it is above all the opportunity to put into practice this
reading/writing 'cycle', whereas leafing
through a book gives only an idea - which is vague because the book is
not conceived for that." (NEF Interview)