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My name is Zorquil, and I start way too many projects at a time! I just get an idea and start it, never finishing it or putting it on the shelf while working on other projects. I read through a bunch of the links sent in the introduction message and I felt called out from the "Embracing the Writing Process". Telling me to finish a project instead of all my 50+ WIPs in the background... I shake my head at you. I'll start a thousand more projects before I let my productivity drive!

... Anyway, I'm starting another project here and probably will forget about it when juggling a bunch of different projects! I have game projects, music projects, art projects, writing projects, video projects, reading through Warrior Ca--

**Zorquil Has Been Banned from ChooseYourStory.com**
==Reason: No Warrior Cats Allowed==

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Anyway, jokes aside, I'm going to (try to) do a story. A wacky comedy where you play as a loaf and escape being shipped off to be eaten. Been transferring it from another CYA site where variables weren't explained and the scope of things were very limited. I feel overwhelmed from all the scripting processes here, so I'm planning to only do basic stuff and learn how to use this site. At the moment, I'm researching how to make choices not appear if you don't have an item... or figure out how items even work in the first place. It's late at night, so I probably will need to come back to this after a good sleep. Or I'll just scour the forums until I find an answer. Still debating whether sleep health is more important than cancelling out the instinctive drive to stay up late, diving deep into the late hours past the midnight tolls with claws scraping against the bedsheets in anguish over a lack of knowledge, a lack of insight, a lack of lacking knowledge and insight (and apparently a lack of proper synonyms) until reaching that heavenly star buried behind several posts of how-do's and what-is's and feel the satisfaction of achievement at 4 AM, regretting the daybreak lights shining through the windows of my... wait, I'm not home, I'm still traveling at the time of this. So it's the soft-pressed curtains of this simple, cheap motel burning my eyeballs and the squint of my eyelids as I sit in the passenger seat of my car. Though I suppose I can just rest my eyes during the car ride and...

... What was I talking about again? Oh right, items. I should look up how to do those. Anyway, glad to meet you all!

EDIT: Figured it out literally seconds after I started playing around with buttons. Okay.

Well welcome to the site. Glad you figured out the link restrictions, let us know if you have any other issues. Honestly though, most stories here are narrative focused and use no scripting at all, and you'll likely be rated on the general entertainment value of your writing and amount of branching possible. Variables and scripting can potentially add a lot in tandem with that if you're willing to tackle them though.

Just curious, what was the other CYOA site? Infinite Story?

Right on the nose. They call it Infinite Story, but it felt like endless searching with no end in sight. I searched and searched and couldn't find any reference of making a variable on their FAQ, and I combed through each article (with Ctrl + F, mind you, but I would feel that "var" should have brought something up eventually). Though I do like how it allowed anyone to submit their own submission. I felt that would really help out with community stories where a huge group could just collaborate and expand on the chaos.

All I wanted was to make a conditional. Instead, my research led to a site that was more configurational. Glad to be on board for however long I'll be here before the next whim carries me along the wind!

Infinite Story doesn't let you make stories with variables.

Yep, it's just simple text adventures.

Looks like the last new story that was created there that's actually appearing on the reading list is coming up on a year ago.

Sev really did let that place go to waste.

Welcome to CYS! I, too, suffer from having way too many projects. (Heck, I even have an old, abandoned thread filled with a few of them.) I hope you enjoy your stay here!

Thanks! May your abandon threads be a base for future stories in some way!

(I wrote this as I read the post, a new paragraph is usually a new paragraph in the post)

     Cool, hi Zorquil welcome to CYS and I hope you have a good time! :D Yeah, there's tons of people here who never finish their stories. Lol.

     That's fine, and XD. Good on you, already knowing to avoid that.

     LOL XD

     That's an original idea! I see, so you're here because CYS is better than that other site! :D If you need an explanation on how those work, you can try reading an article or asking someone. If you're not a pain, people here are pretty nice. Yeah, I would suggest staying out of scripting until you're familiar with the more basic things. Yet another person using the site way to late :). I doubt answers will be that easy to find in the forums, better to go here, but if you do look in the forums I think your best bet is the writing workshop. Lol, I think you better sleep :).

     Oh you got the answers you were looking for, ok.

(I will respond in the same way then to respect your paragraph-by-paragraph response!)

We love paragraph to paragraph reactions! Anyway, I may join the crowd, but I'll at least have had fun during that!

I read a lot of things since I was interested in all the help articles relating to the story writing process. Color me green as that's my favorite color! And color me with impressional textures because I enjoyed the basics being laid out in such a clear manner!

Though I suppose my words mean nothing. Banned on the first post! So sad!

As mentioned in a comment, I was trying to use Infinite Story, but it was just too basic and lacked a bunch of information. But yeah, I'll probably use the Writing Workshop if I hit a road bump. Last time I hit a road bump, it felt like I flew ten feet in the air because I drove way too fast. By that, I mean I went into programming with little knowledge on how to use the language, only to be walled by an idea I had no idea how to execute. This is why you try not to run a bump since you'll crash into a wall like an egg and leave a stain!

And yeah, I just finished writing my introduction before going back to my story to play around with options, only to find that it was a simple button. I just stared in disbelief before going back to edit the first post. But hey! Now readers will be able to wack people with a wrench when I start learning how to utilize items. Or throw the wrench like a boomerang, destroying everything in its path through the fury of an enraged loaf taking revenge for their bread-theren. Depends on how much power I want to give the reader.

(I just put this here before to avoid confusion XD)

      Well this was a nice surprise! I guess now I can expect no stories from you, unless I misunderstood what you said, but that's fine.

     And I don't think you can color with impressional features. Rather unique idea, though. Usually green is disgust and//or envy but it's Zorquil now I guess :)

     I'm confused as to what this is supposed to mean?

     Lol. You weren't even actually banned!

     Lol. You're funny. And you have a lot of unique ideas/metaphors that come to mind.

     LOL. If you ever finish your story it seems it will be amusing. There's a lot of buttons for features people miss at the start.

EDIT: Ok I saw you posted in the wonderful pizza thread, don't do that. Just let it die. I know it can be tempting to post but the mods (likely) won't be happy with us if we fully revive that thread. Just leave it alone. And from what you posted, maybe I'm wrong, but it looks like it belongs responding to the first or second post not Sent's.

I have so many unfinished projects I've taken to hoarding titles just in case inspiration strikes and I do more than just have an idea. But still one title is elusive....

     I just have my story ideas (with titles) written down, but I'm trying to keep a certain maximum number of unpublished stories at a time. That way if I abbandon the site for one reason or another (moving, new filters block this, ect. I can only garentee constant daily pressence when I'm like 18) the titles will still be open to those who want it.

     Which one is eluding you?

What a nice thing to do. Title I wanted was Aftermath, but that could conceivably be used by Endmaster to write a direct sequel or prequel to Necromancer, so of course it would be ethically wrong for me to request given that I like that story so much.

The author hasn't logged in since 2019 and only has 499 words of progress, so assuming you're planning on writing something on it (and not just hoarding the title) that could be arranged.

But naturally if End wants the title he gets first dibs.

Huh. Well, naturally it would fit in his world so I would have no problem deferring. But I wouldn't want it unless I actually was motivated to write it. I guess it's safe with that dude.

If it gets taken you can still do the high school drama, After Math.

LOL