cool, I will check it out. Becoming a vampire sounds fun 

This encourages me more than anything i have heard yet. "Any garbage can win a contest". Sweet!....  Now back to my bourbon and garbage...   

lol. this is me. Im on page 13, Lots of damn work. 2 more pages before my burn out. :)   

   I am brand new as well, and also an inexperienced writer. My suggestion, for what it is worth, it to read all of the help documentation on the editor features. Reading through that gave me ideas for stories. I would say I am more into the game mechanics than story telling, so that's why reading the "How to's" first worked for giving me inspiration. But also, before starting your own, you could read a few highly rated stories on here. There are some good ones. This will also give you ideas about your own story. You get "points" when u review others stories and leave a comment afterwards. You will also get 3 points for creating your own story. Now you dont even have to "publish" this story to get the points, you just create it so only you can see, play around with the mechanics and some ideas, and have fun. There is a checkbox when you create a new game for "Allow Sneak Preview".  Keep this unchecked so that no one can see your Frankenstein Monster. It really is a lot of fun. 

So Steve wrote the vampire hunter path? It was pretty well-written btw...  

Hey Steve. I went down the path of least resistance? I did not grab the shotgun as a boy, and became a vampire hunter. I had constant nightmares about that moment my entire life. What if i did grab that shotgun? What if I could kill that vampire. That is why, 20 years and 20 pages later, I wanted to make up for my mistake as a child. I wanted to grab my gun, and kill that vampire. And oops, I died. The End.  :)  

thanks a ton. Yeah i found that setting already.  :)  

   Yes, i suspected my ultimate solution would be a script, and i expect there is a rng function i can call in script. And i see where i can create global link scripts. If i code it there, then i can generate random link redirects to force random encounters with potential previously encounter characters based on the boolean value. Just ideas floating around, i havent fleshed out how i would make this impact a story plot yet. 

yeah i read Dungeon Stompage, died pretty quickly. I haven't decided what kind of battle system i want yet, or if I even do. But one idea i definitely want to incorporate is how previous paths and characters met influence future events without needing an entire story path. For instance, if previously in the story, u decide not to kill a young succubus, possibly later in the story that demon will randomly attack you. Those types of things will be global boolean variables, to let the story mechanism know that the character is available to appear later. A fluid interactive game experience. 

  Thanks for the good input Undr!  Yeah, sentence length can be a problem, ill review the sentences that should be combined. But you are right about the rhythm. I wanted a light rhythm. The main character is a young kid in college, likes to have a good time. There is more to him, but i wanted to open with a light tone. I have seen other examples of writing that tries to create an epic poem with each sentence, even if that sentence has little impact on the plot. The character taking a dump can become a sonnet. So, i was shooting for a light tone, but not an empty one. I tried injecting significant backstory during mundane prose. Cuz really, all that happened was a hung over kid got up and showered. I haven't written anything in a long time, but i think trying to make a main character likable is such a tough task. I'll do my best with this one. Any tips on developing a likable character? lol