Current and future writing projects

[Cat2000]

Tiger Falls was built on the site of an Indian burial site, and there are a lot of spooky things which happen there – such as ghosts, monsters, possessions, etc. Those who don’t die in the university are never quite right when they leave. In fact, over half of them become serial killers, sociopaths, psychopaths, mentally deranged... Still, students continue to go there. Perhaps they believe it will be different for them; maybe they hope to destroy the evil... or perhaps they simply don’t know the university’s reputation.

You have the option to play one of four characters – two males and two females. The choices you make will determine whether you live or die, whether you turn out ‘normal’ or end up emotionally scarred.

I'm finally getting back to working on some of my projects. This story is on private status right now, but as soon as there are more rooms, I'll move it onto public.

I'm also working on a third version of Final Quest - so if anyone's interested in coming up with ideas to make it better... Tell me everything that was wrong with the first two versions.

Bye for now!

[End Master]

Glad to see you're still around Cat.

The only thing I remember finding wrong with the first Final Quest was the long maze segment you had at one point. I think eliminating rooms like "Go left or right" and adding more descriptive ones would be better than maze stuff.

I didn't really think anything was excessively wrong with the second version except that wasn't finished.

Anyway the sample of the story you're working on looks pretty interesting so far.

[Cat2000]

Yeah... I was trying to do the same thing some of the writers did in the books and get the reader hopelessly lost - but it's not something I plan to do again, so... ^^

And, yeah - I have a serious problem with finishing stories. It's why I have the ones I'm working on on private status, so that people aren't likely to start reading and then be disappointed when they just stop suddenly. As to whether or not my good intentions will stick around... Well, I'll just have to see.

And I do intend on checking out some of others' stories at some point as well. I keep neglecting the reading...

[Jostuth09]

Current and future writing projects

I think my resolutions all have to do with my writing...because I dont do enough of it.

I want to blog more.

I want to find my creativity and use it in my writing more often.

I want to take the advice of a very dear friend and just force myself to write if I must.

I want to finish the stories already begun.

Stop being so dramatic about the whole thing

[donteatpoop]

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[Cat2000]

I think my New Year's Resolution is to finally finish this chapter/battle... it's already been taking me way too long

[mizal]

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I am...so confused right now.

But my New Years resolutions are about writing more too...or at least about not being lazy, which would directly contribute to writing more.

Also, I'm secretly a spam bot.

[End Master]

Innkeeper: 1% Completed

This is my contest story. It will be a little more on the fantasy side rather than a modern setting. It'll probably have a few steampunk/industrial age elements though. While there are fantasy races, it's going to be a low magic setting. Wizards aren't plentiful and they aren't moving mountains. (At least not any more)

As you can probably tell, the protagonist will take the role of an innkeeper. Not from the beginning though, there's a small childhood process to go through first. So far I've got 3 different major branches in mind for the story based on how childhood goes. Certain events will always happen regardless of the branch. There will just be different effects or ways to deal with them.

I ended up writing a few history links for the inn and the city (as well as the surrounding area) since I felt it just needed a little more background.

Primal: 20% Completed

One day! One day!

Routine: CANCELLED

Put down and scrapped, but kept for parts for possible future stories... whenever I get around to them.

[mizal]

Innkeeper sounds pretty interesting. Low power fantasy is probably my favorite setting, I've done a couple of stories like that in the past but never a CYOA.

I'm actually starting to wonder if I'll ever be able to finish a CYOA, they seem to all get so ridiculously huge and unwieldy so fast, and I have the hardest time keeping track of all the different plot threads...add to one and you create two more. It's annoying. And yet at the same time I don't want to be killing the reader off left and right just because they don't follow the storyline I'm most interested in.


I'm trying to plan my urban fantasy one out web-style on a single sheet of paper though, we'll see how that goes.

[End Master]

I usually create several "main story branches" and then set story limits within those branches. This keeps it from getting too unwieldily and you don't necessarily have to kill off the character.

For example in Ground Zero, there were several major story branches you could get into, one of which was hiding in an advanced underground shelter. There were a few different ways that could play out, but there were times where you could leave the shelter altogether. Doing so ended the story. Your character didn't necessarily die (Sometime just walking off into an unknown future) but that particular story branch was about life IN a shelter. If you leave it, it would've become a different story.

Primal had something similar with leaving the island of Tokari. Sure you might find a nice new island, but it's a different story now, so it ends.

There's going to be points in the Innkeeper story where you can just walk away from running the place. Again this doesn't necessarily mean your character dies, but it is an end to the story, because hey, the story is called "Innkeeper" and it's focusing on events involving your Inn not about you suddenly running off to become an adventurer instead.

[Ryan_DuBois]

I'm a couple thousand words into mine... Looks like it's yet another post-apocalyptic setting (I didn't mean to!), but it doesn't set itself up as a huge epic like "The Rift" did. It looks like it's going to be about The Devil or something like him and a group of people who have to hunt it down. Right now the setting is in a kind of suburban area, so the rest of the story will probably include a trek to some nearby city.

Apparently I'm incapable of writing true branching stories, too, because this one is linear. What I ended up doing is something kind of like Lucid's "Paradox Factor", where you can choose which scenes to view or which characters to follow, without there being any contradictions in the plot. It's very vague, so hopefully setting up the branches this way will give the reader more incentive to read through it several times and get a better grasp of the "big picture".

Beyond that, I can't really say... I think as far as fantasy elements go, it's going to resemble "Fallout 3" more than anything. Don't expect any unicorns.

[Usoki]

I have no idea what I'm going to end up writing... but rest assured it will have some sort of bizarre, fantastic and/or supernatural element as a key plot point. The story can't even keep my attention span if I don't include something along those lines.

[mizal]

Don't expect any unicorns.

This is so weird. I just decided that mine would have a unicorn, just because it was the most random thing I could think of.

[Ryan_DuBois]

Haha, yeah it was the first thing that came to my mind when I thought of "fantasy".

[Usoki]

Apparently, Ryan only reads girly, hormonal preteen fantasy. I'll be sure to expect the occasional glittery vampire.