So I have a story titled "At The Cabin" on the "Erotic Couplings" category. One of the writers contributing to the story thought about adding a pornstar as a character, then I thought a bit more about the matter and the idea of using a celebrity as a character popped into my mind. My question is: is it allowed to use a real person/celebrity outside of the "Celebrities" category?
Hi Dusford, I can't speak for CHYOA but there are tonnes of stories with "Celebs" and even a category https://chyoa.com/search?c=celebrities and I gotta say one of my Faves is https://chyoa.com/story/hot-hollywood-party/cover by jjgarces and his stories can be found here https://chyoa.com/writer/jjgarces but interms of pornstars you can't go past https://chyoa.com/story/living-with-pornstars/cover by https://chyoa.com/writer/mixermix Cheers Jonray
Oh crap sorry Dude didn't read it properly there "use a real person/celebrity outside of the "Celebrities" category?" Please ignore my previous post sorry again Cheers Jonray
Absolutely. It's part of why CHYOA placed a higher emphasis on tags. Even back in the days of CHYOO, it wasn't uncommon for someone to mingle real celebrities or even fictional characters from all over into other categories. The category is just a guideline to represent the primary intention of the story when the creator started the story, it does not have to be the only intention.
Thanks for answering, Kaitou1412. I'm not really sure if I'll do it, but I wanted to know beforehand if it was against the rules.
LOL...I know you misread Duskford's post...but thanks for spreading the word about my nonsense anyway... Cheers dude.
But, it's Damn Good Nonsense! The stuff we need in a seriously Fucked World, I always used fiction and imagination to escape from the crap, whether LOTR and Dragonlance (which seriously turn to shit) as a kid or David Gemmel, Raymond E Feist, David Weber, terry pratchett (I won't touch his last few novels because, well ya know why), C. J. Cherryh (Fortress Series) and many numerous others was a way to wind down from work with a beer and to escape to something else. But at the moment I can't enjoy all of those books in my library any more. But I can enjoy the fun stuff of yours and other CHYOA brilliant and fun Writers. Thanks again JjGares, Duskford and all the other writers who so kindly share their stories @ CHYOA. Cheers Jonray