Posting a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure

[QuietElegance]

I did an interactive Choose Your Own Adventure story in a discord channel a little while ago, and I was thinking about posting it on Literotica. The issue is that it's an html file right now, not a word doc. It's also not a typical story format, since I was just presenting choices to the audience and then writing up what happened.

Any recommendations on how to share the content? I could type it up as a word file and submit it chapter by chapter, but I was hoping for some feedback from authors with more experience using the site.

 

[Bramblethorn]

If I understand correctly, what you have is one completed path through a story that was run as a CYOA, rather than a full CYOA with all the choices available.

In that case, I'd be inclined to convert it into a more conventional story style. Formatting it as a CYOA but without choices that the readers can make is likely to be confusing.

OTOH, if it is a full CYOA - probably best to PM Laurel and ask about options. The site does host some CYOAs with hyperlinks, but I haven't seen any new ones recently, so I don't know if that's still supported.

 

[QuietElegance]

Yes, that's a better way of putting it - "interactive rpg" is probably a more accurate description than CYOA, since I have a completed story with one set of player choices. I think people would still have fun reading through it, but I can definitely appreciate how it could be confusing or less interesting since a new reader wouldn't be able to make any choices.

Re-writing it as a short story is a good recommendation, thank you!

 

[SyleusSnow]

You might want to look at https://chyoa.com/

 

[SisterJezabel]

Someone did a CYOA last year- posted the premise and then said there would be three options they could read. All were different and took the reader to places unexpected. It was a good experiment, but I can't remember its name or anything. I think it was Non-con too...

 

[PennameWombat]

I don't know if one thing led to the other, but...

Manu (of Laurel & Manu, gods of Literotica) just posted about "Literotica Interactive Stories" in this thread:
http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1498419

He's looking for Beta testers/authors. If your story is already in an "interactive rpg" format respond there or contact him via DM.

 

[AlinaX]

("Just posted" two years ago. The one thing leading to another was me boosting it.)

If the completed adventure is an HTML file, why not copy it from the browser?

 

[QuietElegance]

Copy/pasting the html text makes the formatting pretty much unreadable, especially since it's coming from a Discord channel where people were voting using reactions. I could take some time to clean things up, make it into a word doc and just bold or italicize the choice that was made. That was part of why I was looking for feedback from people - I didn't want to put in the work of transcribing the story from html to word if the story format wouldn't work as a submission in the first place.

 

[AlinaX]

I don't see why it wouldn't, provided it's a decent length. Not sure it's worth splitting into chapters.

(If you'd like me to take a look at the source, PM me and we'll sort something out.)