Pay attention to your story!

[amalgam]

I like to view author profiles and see what kinds of stories these folks write and participate in. Some authors have lots of stories but they don't got any deeper than a few threads. Usually, I'm not interested in a chyoo if the creator doesn't seem to be. I imagine that other people aren't either, as these nascent plots fail to develop more than a few steps beyond the intro.

So my suggestion to those chyoo members is to pay a little more attention to one or a few stories rather than toss your eggs everywhere.

 

[artican]

Hey, egg tossing is a lost art. But I do see where you're coming from.

 

[jakelyon]

I like to view author profiles and see what kinds of stories these folks write and participate in. Some authors have lots of stories but they don't got any deeper than a few threads. Usually, I'm not interested in a chyoo if the creator doesn't seem to be. I imagine that other people aren't either, as these nascent plots fail to develop more than a few steps beyond the intro.

So my suggestion to those chyoo members is to pay a little more attention to one or a few stories rather than toss your eggs everywhere.

I have the opposite view to this. When I have an idea I like to get it done, even if it is only a few threads, so if someone wants to add to it they can. I have a list of threads I need to write and I work down that list when I am adding. The list currently has 84 stories on it so I am backed up, but I will get to them eventually. I guess I feel I would rather put the idea out and give someone the opportunity than just forget about it.

Overall I approve threads rapidly, and give immediate feedback. What makes me not want to add to a story is an editor that does not approve threads within a day, or one that does not give me any feedback.

Anyway there is my two cents worth.

 

[Torg]

I have the opposite view to this. When I have an idea I like to get it done, even if it is only a few threads, so if someone wants to add to it they can. I have a list of threads I need to write and I work down that list when I am adding. The list currently has 84 stories on it so I am backed up, but I will get to them eventually. I guess I feel I would rather put the idea out and give someone the opportunity than just forget about it.

Overall I approve threads rapidly, and give immediate feedback. What makes me not want to add to a story is an editor that does not approve threads within a day, or one that does not give me any feedback.

Anyway there is my two cents worth.

I follow both of these ideas. Especially when I first started, I wrote threads in just a few stories, because I didn't want to just write a thread in each story or something. Then I started branching out more, writing a thread here or there.

Now, I have a large set of threads that I can add to when the whim or creativity grabs me. I do like to keep writing in a story as long as I'm reasonably inspired. So for instance, I added 6 threads pretty quickly to the Jonard Sperm Bank. Other places, I've had a single thread on some stories for over a year or two.

Of my own stories, I have several that I've added numerous threads to, as well as several that I've only written the Intro to.

I guess all things to all people.

 

[alteredego524]

I like to view author profiles and see what kinds of stories these folks write and participate in. Some authors have lots of stories but they don't got any deeper than a few threads. Usually, I'm not interested in a chyoo if the creator doesn't seem to be. I imagine that other people aren't either, as these nascent plots fail to develop more than a few steps beyond the intro.

So my suggestion to those chyoo members is to pay a little more attention to one or a few stories rather than toss your eggs everywhere.

I gotta say that I disagree.

If you have a great idea for a story... Then spill the whole thing out, start to finish (with enough branch points along the way).

But, it seems the standard is to have a short idea for a scene, or an act that you want in a story. Plus, while you are hopping stories, you may find something that you really like that you would want to emulate in your own story. The primary idea of Chyoo is Choose Your Own... The second is collaboration. Work, and share together, and see if the final product is better that the sum of it's parts.

 

[amalgam]

I gotta say that I disagree.

If you have a great idea for a story... Then spill the whole thing out, start to finish (with enough branch points along the way).

I'm not clear on why you disagree. If you're going to "spill the whole thing out, start to finish" then you're probably going to go more than a few threads, right? I wouldn't call someone working like that disinterested; I'd be quite impressed, in fact!

...while you are hopping stories, you may find something that you really like that you would want to emulate in your own story.

Certainly, and if a person is inspired by other work, then he should express that in his own work. I don't see how this is related to eggs in baskets, however. I have only one story; I write for it, I write for other stories once in awhile, and I take good ideas from those stories. A writer with tons of stories can do the same.

 

[Torg]

The second is collaboration. Work, and share together, and see if the final product is better that the sum of it's parts.

I have to say that my Summer Road Trip collaboration with SlaveDragon has been fabulous. We've alterated threads to what I think is great effect. Better than I could have done on my own.

 

[amalgam]

I have to say that my Summer Road Trip collaboration with SlaveDragon has been fabulous.

Shameless plug! And now i must read!

 

[Dr. Tentakelliebe]

what is the difference btw a collab. and we normally do?

 

[Torg]

what is the difference btw a collab. and we normally do?

Well, he and I have been alternating threads to what I feel is great effect, playing off each others events to build a great storyline.

 

[amalgam]

That's really cool.

 

[artican]

what is the difference btw a collab. and we normally do?

It should also be pointed out that collaborations don't necessarily allow you to split off on tangent stories like we get to do here. Collaborated CHYOOs are muliple times better than normal collabs in that respect.

 

[TJChurch]

It should also be pointed out that collaborations don't necessarily allow you to split off on tangent stories like we get to do here. Collaborated CHYOOs are muliple times better than normal collabs in that respect.

But collaborations sometimes suck, in my experience, since some writers/editors only work with their collaborators, & don't allow others of us to add threads.

 

[artican]

Yeah, that's a pretty close minded way of running things. The best collaborations are when everyone who has something decent to add gets to contribute.

 

[Imhotep]

The best collaborations are when everyone who has something decent to add gets to contribute.

I couldn't agree more. That's why I invite anyone to contribute to one of my stories. <I know its a cheap ploy, forgive me.> I've hit a dry spell, and need a contributor to get the creative juices flowing again. Cheerio!