Here comes a thought...

[AB Avery]

I understand what your saying terminator, and I agree somewhat, but I believe that if it comes to choices that neither partner is comfortable writing, that could easily become a hard end to a story. While even though choices will be slightly more limited (not much from my end, since I'm willing to experiment, though there are a few things I absolutely refuse), it will allow the story to still be comfortable and would run more smoothly. With stating the absolute no-no's in the beginning, we ensure that readers who like and want that stuff should move along as they aren't going to find what they want. Do you read a fantasy book, knowing that you won't enjoy it? (Assuming it's not required for a class of course.) So while it's limiting in some ways, for the health of the rp, it is highly beneficial.
I currently work as an apple tech support person, and the most important thing I've learned is be comfortable. If I were to sit at my desk without any headphones to listen to music on, that would hinder my ability to help, as I rely heavily on music for my sanity.

[terminator101]

Originally Posted by AB Avery

... Do you read a fantasy book, knowing that you won't enjoy it? ...

I can't say that I've done that with a fantasy book (I seldom read that kind of fiction - I'm more into Sci-Fi) but I can say that I've seen movies that I originally thought that I wouldn't enjoy, yet somehow eventually peaked my curiosity since they were billed as "Cult classics" or one that was "So bad that it was good". For example, I didn't really think that I would ever care to watch "Killer Klowns from Outer Space", since the premise behind it (Space aliens that look like clowns going on a killing rampage looking for food ['nuff said, I don't want to spoil it any further]) sounded pretty stupid to me but when it was broadcast late one night on TV and I watched it (I had nothing better to do), I was intrigued by the sheer campiness of the clowns' methods in "killing" their victims and yet horrified at the same time, since they were actually killing people. You'll have to see the movie to know what I'm talking about which if you haven't already you can - The full version of the movie is available here -> http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xls...ace_shortfilms. After watching that movie which I originally thought that I couldn't care less for, I can actually say that I enjoyed it! So it appears that the old saying "Never judge a book by its cover." really does hold true. Hey, you never really know about something, until you've tried it!

Originally Posted by AB Avery

... I believe that if it comes to choices that neither partner is comfortable writing, that could easily become a hard end to a story. ...

I also understand where you're coming from and have previously said that since a RP's story is usually personal in nature, that of course there would be some things that the writers would not want to happen to their characters and thus, some choices would be omitted from a poll. IMHO though, it would be more of a challenge (Harder) to try resolve the story's ending to a writer's satisfaction (Happy ending) if some uncomfortable choices were decided upon from a poll. At least you are not limited to three words per turn when trying to craft a story and you have your partner to collaborate with you during the story creation process. It's really up to you and your partner how the two of you want to develop the story. It's not like the two of you were trying to write multiple alternative plots for an interactive movie with the audience voting at every decision point which would ultimately affect the final outcome of the movie's story.

Originally Posted by AB Avery

... I currently work as an apple tech support person, and the most important thing I've learned is be comfortable. If I were to sit at my desk without any headphones to listen to music on, that would hinder my ability to help, as I rely heavily on music for my sanity.

Different people function in different ways. As a programmer who has worked in many companies, I have seen instances where other programmers can actually bang out decent lines of code despite having their headphones on while the rest of us in the group would find such noise a distraction, especially if the person plays their music so loud that it seeps into our cubicles or our parts of an open area (If no cubicles are present) while we're trying to debug errors in a mission critical (Front-end) application - Sometimes one person's comfort can lead to the discomfort of others.

[AB Avery]

Well it's not like I headbang it out. I would get fired for blasting music, or otherwise proving a distraction.
And when I said a hard stop, like I just meant one last post, whether it really was an ending or no-




See? For example, I just couldn't do vore. Some people are in to it, I get that, but that's just too far for me and I'm afraid that if I were to leave it as a possibility and it did get chosen, I would just lose any enjoyment I myself am having and that would hinder my ability to write until the point where I just completely lose it and something not conclusive in the slightest ends up as the last post.

[R682]

I really like the idea of a story in which each section ends with a specific breakdown of choice options, as offered by the author, in the same style as a 'choose your adventure' story, or the branching options in a 'Telltale' style video game. I could enjoy writing something like that myself to order (I do already create many branching adventure stories myself, purely for my own entertainment), provided the stipulation that, as previously discussed, the author retained some control over the choices on which people were voting, and therefore the general direction the story was going - otherwise I think it could easily spiral out of control, or go to a place where the writer themselves were no longer 'into' the content enough to want to keep going.

[AB Avery]

Precisely! I just need someone to do this with, as really the easiest medium here would be some form of game show, wouldn't you all agree?

[R682]

When you say a 'game show', do you mean the setting for the story, or the way you might approach people voting for which option to follow. How would that work? Like, first to the buzzer? Or answering game-show questions to win the right to be the one to decide which branch?

As you can probably tell from my previous post, I for one would be more than happy to do this with you, and contribute in whatever way you'd like.

[AB Avery]

Well just the scenario the characters are in. I trnd to take the maze approach, and every now and then they come across a door with previously predetermined consequences by us. But we don't tell our readers, obviously, and let them vote. Say we come up with a choice once a day or once every other day maybe?

[R682]

Oh I see - I guess I was overthinking it. (And perhaps I still am... but...) How would a gameshow scenario work? Like a 'big brother' thing, where participants were challenged to wear diapers? Or as a consequence for failing a task or a question? It would have to be over a sustained period, I imagine, for the diapers to become an issue as more than a silly costume item. Say £10000 prize for any contestant who can submit to diaper treatment (and whatever corresponding indignities the show can come up with) over the course of an entire week?

Would you like me to help out as a writer? Please do feel free to PM me, if so!

[AB Avery]

You know, if anyone wants to do this, I'm still glad to work out the details