I'm new to this site and generally writing this sort of story. If there's anyone feeling charitable enough, I'd really appreciate having someone to consult while making my first piece. My skills with writing are competent enough, I just feel I'll be able to make a much better piece if someone is able to help me hammer out mechanical flaws in making CYOAs. My first piece is going to be centered around a straight femboy in a fantastical 1920's urban setting. If this interests anyone, I'd greatly appreciate being able to discuss it and flesh things out.
Can we maybe enjoy writing it together? I'm not a mentor but I do have some presentable prose. Google docs?
In my opinion, the category Fantasy doesn't fit the setting as I rather imagine a medieval-like setting with additional races, magic and so on. (Maybe even some Steampunk-like setting, though that could maybe also be filed as SF) Do you have any specific questions? - 2nd person stories: watch your yous - asking chapter questions: decide on a way how the questions are asked e.g. - the reader answers the question in place of the protagonist and thus can only affect the protagonist's actions. The reader can't directly decide on the other characters' actions but will affect their reactions with the actions of the protagonist. The reader can't change the environment with his decision. - the reader answers the question as an omnipotent entity and can decide on everything.- parallel threads: if something is true in one branch, it will be true in a parallel branch, except it has been affected by a decision of the reader or a subsequent reaction of another character. e.g. when the options are "Wait ten minutes" and "Wait an hour," and it starts raining after two minutes in the first option, it must rain after two minutes in the second option as well. This can be hard and not everyone might like it or see it as an added value, so you have to decide for yourself if you like it that way. - instead of using more than one dash like -- you can also use an em dash —
Just reading "The House of Shattered Wings" by Aliette de Bodard, which features an almost contemporary Paris, although in an alternate timeline, where Fallen Angels walk the Earth, have ursurped power and wealth from Humans and have destroyed and devastated the country in their own "Great War". Magic is alive, not only in Europe, but also in Asia and plays a huge part for the story. I have no idea how to call this anything else than "Fantasy", despite the strange mixture of contemporary setting and apocalyptic world. Then again, technology doesn't really matter that much. There seem to be cars, but they don't play a role.
Looking up a definition, the genre is mainly defined by magic in medieval-like or myth/legend-based settings but also includes supernatural things (e.g. vampires) which might happen in contemporary settings. In my experience, a lot of writers choose the category Fantasy as they want to express that their stories aren't realistic.
I would say an inability to make fantasy in this setting is more due to my limitations as an author than limitations of genre. I am going more for a low-fantasy setting (magic as a rare occurrence, less a Harry Potter "hidden world" than a sizable secret community within society proper) which may be better suited for the time period/location.
I was also thinking of a low fantasy concept. Considering erotica itself is a fantasy, though most woUldale always imagine magic when they hear the word fantasy.
