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http://www.chooseyourstory.com/help/articles/

Click the link at the top of the page called "follow this link"

For someone into writing and reading you dont know how to read...

getting an article approved usually takes a few days. patiences Grasshopper. as for your article, ill look at it. ill see if its worth publishing.

nate

i just looked rommel, and personally, i dont agree with most of them.

1: They are on a computer - These are not books. Books can be on computer, people who are blind can have a book read to them on a computer. Are books on tape/CD not books too?

2: They are shorter in length than CYOA books (although CYOA books are shorter than ordinary books). While most stories on here are short, length doesnt determine what a story is. you can write a story with 6 words, "Baby shoes for sale. Never worn. that invokes imagination, just like any other story out there.

3: They contain game elements - Two notable examples are the Wal*Mart game and 8 goals, 28 rolls, which are more games than stories. This is one of the main requirements for a CYOA.

4: They can contain variables - Although the Lone Wolf series uses variables and traits, it is not widespread and difficult to implement in books. So the Lone Wolf series isnt a CYOA? Not True!

5: They can contain video - very few books can do this. (LOL) This is true, however technology doesnt change what an item is, everthing  changes over time.

6: In the future games will be able to contain music - Although some books can do this, they are meant to entertain little kids and the sound quality is crummy. Same as #5.

A game on this site is: A text (and maybe graphic) based adventure game, made with an engine, coded in HTML, posted online, possibly made with variables and made publicly available. Same as #5.

nate

1 CYOAs on a computer are text adventure games, and obviously not books.

2 "Baby shoes for sale here" is not a story. A story has to have narrative structure: setting, characters, motive and action, as well as orientaton, complication, conflict, resolution.

3 CYAs are more stories than games, and are meant to be read. Text adventure games are more games than stories, and are meant to be played.

4 Variables and items, scripting, etc. are built in, the player doesn't do it themselves. That is the difference from Joe Dever's works.

5 these are not books, are biased towards gameplay and toyplay than narrative (except tsmpaul's Light Space etc.). Refer to counterargument 1; these are text adventure games, not CYOAs.

Well, think of it this way, sure something short like six words can be a story, however, on a CYOA site, a six word story would never hold it's ground to anything.

Also, a CYOA is about reading and choosing choices, yes they can have gameplay elements in them ,but will still have more story and choosing than anything. Even though they are shorter than normal books, they are far more umm... re-readable I guess I'll say.

1 CYOAs on a computer are text adventure games, and obviously not books.

CYOA does not mean its a book.. Merely an adventure, no requirements as to whether or not they are on the computer.

2 "Baby shoes for sale here" is not a story. A story has to have narrative structure: setting, characters, motive and action, as well as orientaton, complication, conflict, resolution.

No, those things are only required for a good story.

3 CYAs are more stories than games, and are meant to be read. Text adventure games are more games than stories, and are meant to be played.

We have some of each.

4 Variables and items, scripting, etc. are built in, the player doesn't do it themselves. That is the difference from Joe Dever's works.

So what.. Theres a minor difference.

5 these are not books, are biased towards gameplay and toyplay than narrative (except tsmpaul's Light Space etc.). Refer to counterargument 1; these are text adventure games, not CYOAs.

I never said they were books..

for those that say that "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn." is not a story, take a look at this.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

nate