Hello, I have a few etiquette questions I have been wondering about. 1) If someone adds a thread to your story, is it appropriate to change any part of it? Especially with regards to continuity issues. 2) If someone adds a thread which you simply dislike what is the appropriate way to reject it? 3) Can you create too many stories? I have several (what I think are) interesting new story plots I have written up, but haven't posted them. Should I simply post them in the hope someone else will add to them or would I be creating too much clutter? I confess to having the tendency to want to jump into something new, instead of working on an old project. Thank you.
I usually edit threads for spelling and grammar, as well as continuity. If things are really bad, I'll ask the author to edit them. You are the owner of the story, so it's very appropriate to reject threads. I try not to reject things simply for not being my cup of tea. There's a lot of room in a story with multiple endings to each thread to go places you never imagined.
I've edited for continuity and consistency with the story premise and characters, sometimes severely, occasionally breaking or extending a thread; certainly for usage, tense, spelling, punctuation. Be straightforward. You don't have to accept a contribution, and you don't have to promise to go through edit cycles until it's acceptable. If there's something salvageable in it, you could point that out. But being a story editor isn't a commitment to make any and all contributors at home in your story at any cost. You could post some of them in the forum and see if they get interest. I personally don't see a bunch of story ideas as clutter if you did decide to post them. I suppose you could have a story called "Porneia's Laboratory" where you explore your new ideas a short distance on branches and perhaps spin them out if they looked like they were going to fly as stories on their own. -Z.
Thank you for the excellent advice. In particular your suggestion about posting them in the forums or "Porneia's Laboratory" is a great idea.
Thank you again for this excellent suggestion. I incorporated your idea into a story itself. (https://chyoa.com/story/sandra-s-stories) I love creating the beginning of new stories, and this idea allows me to indulge in this vice and yet have only one story.
That's the most appropriate way to do. Otherwise someone will didn't know that you dislike his story, will have to wait a few week and than ask Freedman to approve it.
