User talk:Fish/CYOE
Discussion for Dreams, Inc.
I'm not positive what I want from this project yet. I've got a chart in hand for all 10 characters, and which 3 options (Romance, Adventure, Thriller) each of those characters will have to start. After that, I don't really have any notion of where they're going. Mostly I'm writing this because I want to write something, but I haven't been able to write a single novel-length work lately — I get distracted or diverted or discouraged, and stop. This is something I can write in small, manageable pieces.
Is this going to be a collaborative story effort, where anybody can edit in a new page? I doubt it — or at least it won't be freely editable by anybody anywhere. I'm considering letting people make submissions for it, but I am pretty picky about quality, so I haven't decided yet whether that'll happen.
Also, I've got a short list of Things That Bug Me about other online branching-fiction, which I want to avoid in my treatment. These pet peeves include:
- Low-quality porn. I want my pornography to be high-quality, damn it.
- A multitude of near-identical choices, as in, "He turns into a dog, he turns into a big dog, he turns into a little dog, he turns into a medium-sized black dog, he turns into a slightly-smaller-but-still-medium-sized white dog, he turns into a dog with a bow on his collar, etc." where all of the options have virtually the same story direction.
- Story branches that aren't controlled by the protagonist, like "suddenly the phone rang," or "suddenly a meteor struck," or "suddenly, he found a mysterious magic lamp on the ground next to him and he used it and he turned into a almost-medium-sized-but-slightly-larger-than-medium-but-not-so-large-as-large white and black dog."
Right now this is just an outlet for me to write. Heaven knows where it's going.