Anybody here who has posted a Choose Your Own Path on Lit?

[CorvusTurrim777]

I have a long, long CYOP story I want to post. The CHYOO site looks so meh compared to regular Lit. If I posted in regular Lit, will the mods move my story to CHYOO? If you've already posted on CHYOO, is it easy to navigate back and forth between scenes? I skimmed through a few stories and saw only FORWARD progression, but nothing BACKWARD like if you make a bad move and have to be penalized for it. Alternatively, if anyone knows how I can contact Support so I can ask these questions direct, because I've gone through the Lit 'contact the author' page and haven't gotten a reply that way, EVER.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm not sure that much of the CHYOO site is active - a random look suggests most activity stopped a decade ago. Although there are some 2022 entries, so who knows.

I doubt you'll get much of response from the site, though, because they're busy on long program of updates to the main site.

PM Laurel, would be the best bet.

 

[AlinaX]

They've been teasing us with a planned overhaul of interactive fiction, but if they've got as far as beta testing it, they haven't told us.

 

[Defluer]

I swear I posted a story to CHYOO a long LONG time ago but I couldn't find it when I looked a couple months ago. If that wasn't a dream and I'm remembering correctly my main issue was that each "part" had to get approved and because it seeming was abandoned very quickly, it took forever to get approved. I had a whole section where there was like only two or three paragraphs before another choice. It took too long to get approved and I gave up with the whole endeavor. But I would be interested in going back, if it got going again. Updated and the submission thing was easier.

I did think how to bring that concept to Literotica, but all I could think of was having the reader do CTRL + F searches but that doesn't really work with Lit dividing things up into pages. And you'd be hated if you posted a bunch of "nonsense" chapters that were just random pages after making different choices.

 

[CorvusTurrim777]

After reading the above comments, I'm not seeing an easy way to do this. My story does have a few parts like Defluer mentions; shorter transitions to redirect the reader to other options. After some digging around, I found this other site:

https://chyoa.com/

The site does not seem to be Lit. Has anyone tried posting a story there?

 

[AlinaX]

My impression is that the stories there generally aren't well written, or are very incomplete, and the editing interface can be such a pain.

 

[CorvusTurrim777]

My impression is that the stories there generally aren't well written, or are very incomplete, and the editing interface can be such a pain.

I also noticed that on CHYOO. Pretty generic stuff. I guess I'll try to PM Laurel on what the best route is, IF there is a best route. Thanks for your help!