Now to see if it get's approved... There is no sex in it yet, but I had to file it under MISC because I intend to have several taboo options appear in it, including but not limited too: incest, twincest, coercive sex, rape, and incestuous rape: (It's post-apoc and goes damn near infra-black in a couple of cases. The only reason that pedophilia doesn't make an appearance is the TOU: though, fair warning, I take a DIM view of rape, statutory or otherwise, and every single time it's presented as an option will start you down a path that only goes to a 'Bad Ending'...) I wish I had more guideance though and some people to help me, because this thing is going to be MASSIVE, and there are a couple of tricks I want to figure out how to pull which I don't know how to do yet, like 'branches' that loop back on themselves... Anyone care to offer advice?
It's been Approved! Here's the link to take a look at the bare bones I have so far! https://chyoa.com/story/rise-up/cover
We have a lot of available content to look at for ideas and we do have rules outlined on what is acceptable in stories. That being said, I'm sure you will have a lot of people willing to take a look and help out. I'm working on a couple of projects with both my stories and a play by post idea for here on the forums at the moment, but I'll gladly take a look and see what I can help with.
I wholeheartedly approve of twincest - it's probably my favourite thing in the world especially if I can join in and the twins are both female, but the best I have managed is cousins (not mine!). There are some things one should avoid describing, not just because of the rules of this site, but I think to avoid all mention of them goes a bit far. I said before when I first joined but UK TV has shown far worse (even look at Joffrey in GOT) than we are allowed to write about here. However, specifically, this site often features immersive stories were people are the protaganists so that is probably why the rules are different. I do find it quite awkward to ignore that people do have sex before the specified age, when the reality is that a high percentage of people do in the real world. I struggle for instance to write about my favourite period Ancient Rome because typically boys would lose the virginity at a whorehouse and girls would marry from 14 upwards, so it makes it quite unrealistic. In fact since I am not entirely sure the rules myself all my characters are 18 before appearing in my stories - actually I do have a 17 year old who engages in voyeurism but witnesses no bare flesh or actual sex and does not even touch herself. It is important for certain moralists (moralist in the sense of 'one concerned with regulating the morals of others') to realise that the author is not endorsing practices by writing about them. but telling a story. The writer of the Saw series, which I find personally horrible, is not saying it's OK to operate on people and put things under their skin so they mutilate themselves and neither are the authors of "Straw Dogs" or "A Clockwork Orange" endorsing rape. In fact by repressing such writing, moralists are sweeping things under the carpet causing the worst elements to go unreported.
I am in complete agreement on all counts, however I understand the reasons for it on sites like this. Simply put, every case of rape or coercive sex begins as a fantasy, and IF it were possible to force every person with those fantasy to confront the results of them before they got to the point of committing the act it would crash the entire concept: BUT it's NOT possible to do that. Sites like this one, darker versions of it anyway, are where these sickos go to build up to the point where they have broken down their instinctual barriers enough to actually commit such heinous acts: which is why I disapprove of them allowing rape as an option either, but so long as it IS allowed I will 'turn the darkness against itself' and portray accurately and boldly what it is REALLY like when such things happen. I will throw a bucket of ice water on the fantasy that rape, the most heinous crime in the human lexicon, EVER has any kind of positive outcome, and hope against hope that my showing it for the ugliness that it is dissuades even one person form committing this vile breach of the compact which allows our civilization to exist. Now, this may leave you wondering about my stance on Incest, and why I would include that: simply put, as long as you have a thorough and respected eugenics program in place, consensual incest is a positive thing. Yes, incest doubles up negative recessives: but it ALSO doubles up POSITIVE ones. If you are properly ruthless about killing off the defective and weak, this slowly improves your gene-pool, because negative recessives show and are eliminated while positive ones come to the fore and become systemic in your genetic base. This is a primary reason that many of my stories include consensual incest to highlight this culturally suppressed truth about the potential benefits of inbreeding.
I have had my first external submission to the story, and find myself in a peculiar position: I very much like the style and verve of the contributor, but as it says in the submission guidelines I am imposing STRICT quality control on the story and their work just does not measure up: though it comes damn close. The submission guidelines advise persons contributing to contact me to receive the 'style guide' for the work, and he has not done so, but when I tried to contact HIM I found that I was unable to do so: this leaves me wondering: how can I make the style guide available to new authors without making the submission guidelines about 10 pages long?
If you have extensive and specific restrictions on content, style, etc, it's common to put that information in a thread off the story's first page titled Notes For New Writers or something similar. That can at least give contributors a sense of what's out-of-bounds before they submit.
I received a submission to one of my stories, which was nice, but didn't met the requirements and ignored some important charcter trait of the protagonist. It was too good to decline, but not good enough to accept. Well... I am the editor. I acepted it and changed it too meet the requirements.
Thank you Trugbild! That is exactly the kind of advice I was looking for and I wonder why I didn't think of it myself. Thank you also to Patzo, though this was not the kind of advice I thought I was looking for it IS the kind which solves the problem more long term: so THANK YOU!
I've done that more than once. Office Morale, for instance, had some submissions that I tweaked to keep within the story guidelines. (And a few where I was a little inattentive and let them slide).
