Peeking into the rock

I have downloaded Twine so I can hypertext Bella and Chain the way I have allways envisioned (and finish it). However, the instructions appear to be--well--missing might be the word for it. There's a wiki, but it is very broad and has no specifics in it, And there is a forum, but the questions people are dealing with are quite advanced,

Right now the questions I'm trying to answer are so basic:

1. How do I make a link to a previous passage (which may be on another branch[honestly, I have made this word up because the terminology list doesn't include this concept], or earlier in the same one)? I want to be able to link back to Nonyomni's threads from anywhere in the story so that if for example a person is following Bella's thread they can find a link to the passage where Nonyomni tells some background information about Harry Smith. But the instructions only tell you how to create a new passage to link to. Also I think maybe the passage has to be linked to from the same words as its title? There appears to be a way to code it so it displays a different title, which might solve that problem if I figure out the way to do this at all. It would seem like a pretty primary thing to do, though, right?

Also, I want people to be able to read the whole thing chronologically, or read each character's thread individually, or to follow other threads I will make for them.

2. How do I fix a broken link? I can't even figure out why these links are broken in the first place. I can find them because Twine kindly colors them red instead of blue. But when I try to fix the link I get a new passage instead. For now I'm copying the material into the new passage, but this is dumb. There has to be a way to just fix what I've got.

Also, this time around I'm going to make a thread of her own for Forager Girl, and highlight the growing friendship between Forager Girl and Bella.

Fake edit:with broken links I'm just deleting them entirely and redoing them. Cut and paste means it's not that time consuming, I wish I could see what's wrong with the links that are broken: I think I'm making them exactly as I do the others, and I can't see anything different about them.

I have now watched what tutorial videos there are and none of them have mentioned, that I could see, "and here is how you create a link to an existing passage."

in other writing work I did today: some few hundred words on the villain story, some tens of words on the gestational specialist story. And some record keeping. I seem to have submitted 132 thousand words this year, and the longest piece was 52 thousand.

on another front, I am in the last stages of making membrillo (quince paste). My quinces were not perfect, but the membrillo looks like it will be heavenly. What did I do? chopped it up fine,  cooked the chopped part till it was gooshy and pink and the cooking water was almost gone, ran it through a mill, cooked it again at low temperature stirring every 3 minutes (with a timer because otherwise it would surely burn) until it was half the size and sticky and would hold a shape more or less, and then made it into a rectangular cake on the silicone sheet  that came with the dehydrator, and now it is running in the dehydrator. I have no idea how long till it is a sturdy, solid coke of quinced paste.

I still have two giant quinces. I believe I will stew one of them with lamb or chicken and candy the other for Chrismas cakes.

on yet another front: I have to confront my neighbors, alas. I have come to the realization that their skunkweed smoking on the balcony isn't just annoying (when I say skunkweed, I am understating how nasty their dope smells), but it's making me ill. I hate to be the nasty old lady next door, but this is out of hand. It penetrates all the way across my house and I believe that the reason I couldn't get out of bed till noon yesterday was the effects of passive dope intake.

The deck is paved in almond blossom petals.
It's raining all over the apricot blossoms.
There are double plum blossoms, bright pink, at work, and single wild plum blossoms, white, blooming all over the crazy hedge person's fence on Chestnut Street (locals: you're at Chestnut and Laural, on Chestnut, across from 7-11, and walking towards downtown. The next place beyond the faux-Victorian three-townhouse deal is the crazy hedge person's place. There's a tall fence made of every kind of scavenged fencing and some things which are not even fencing, with all kinds of plant life growing over the top, through the boards, and up from the sidewalk. Salient among these are the wild plums which are blooming now, and some curly aloes, and what I think are baby avocadoes. And, of course, acacia).
The flowering quince has largely recovered from her ravaging: that is, it's blooming all over again, but its branches are still ugly and if it ever stops raining long enough for me to notice I will have to trim it severely.

And Sim City keeps crashing just when I get the city going good.