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My objectives here with this choose-your-own-ending story are several. First, I need to get writing again, even if it's in small chunks. Second, I have a lot of disconnected story ideas that I felt could all be mashed together in an all-encompassing story such as this. | |||
I have seen a number of CYOE stories on the Internet. Some of them start out well, and some start out poorly, but most of them go downhill in quality after a time, no matter how well-intentioned the starting author. This is because there are several pitfalls with unrestricted anything-goes editing, and there are a number of traps in CYOE design that I am determined to avoid. So here are my goals: | |||
# All the characters will have a personality. The lead character will ''not'' be a cipher, a blank slate, a victim with no purpose other than to move from fetish to fetish. | |||
# The characters will each have an emotional hook, upon which to hang their story branches. For instance, one character's hook will be about confronting his fears; each story branch will therefore boil down to Fear and Courage. Needless to say, the Fear branches will ''mostly'' be dead ends, or lead quickly to dead ends within a few segments. The character should progress toward branches that are courageous, for that way, he'll make an ''interesting'' character journey. | |||
# High quality will be maintained. This will happen because the WikiMedia software can (so I'm told) be constrained to permit editing only to registered Authors. | |||
# Story segments will be long, not short. The segments will contain real action, not two sentences of fluff followed by another ridiculous choice. | |||
# Branches will be a small number of meaningful alternatives, not a long wall of nearly identical choices. | |||
--[[User:Fish|Fish]] 05:12, 15 November 2007 (EST) | |||
Latest revision as of 05:12, 15 November 2007
My objectives here with this choose-your-own-ending story are several. First, I need to get writing again, even if it's in small chunks. Second, I have a lot of disconnected story ideas that I felt could all be mashed together in an all-encompassing story such as this.
I have seen a number of CYOE stories on the Internet. Some of them start out well, and some start out poorly, but most of them go downhill in quality after a time, no matter how well-intentioned the starting author. This is because there are several pitfalls with unrestricted anything-goes editing, and there are a number of traps in CYOE design that I am determined to avoid. So here are my goals:
- All the characters will have a personality. The lead character will not be a cipher, a blank slate, a victim with no purpose other than to move from fetish to fetish.
- The characters will each have an emotional hook, upon which to hang their story branches. For instance, one character's hook will be about confronting his fears; each story branch will therefore boil down to Fear and Courage. Needless to say, the Fear branches will mostly be dead ends, or lead quickly to dead ends within a few segments. The character should progress toward branches that are courageous, for that way, he'll make an interesting character journey.
- High quality will be maintained. This will happen because the WikiMedia software can (so I'm told) be constrained to permit editing only to registered Authors.
- Story segments will be long, not short. The segments will contain real action, not two sentences of fluff followed by another ridiculous choice.
- Branches will be a small number of meaningful alternatives, not a long wall of nearly identical choices.
--Fish 05:12, 15 November 2007 (EST)