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  1. Xenolan

    Biggest turn offs?

    I'm a tit guy, and I like big ones... and if not for self-imposed restrictions, I admit I would probably have every female character in my stories on the high side of DD. But in my most recent story, that got dialed back a bit. I decided to use photo illustrations, and since the setting was...
  2. Xenolan

    How many chapters before publishing?

    When I write a story, I write the intro, which establishes the essentials of the setting, the protagonist, and theme. Then, I write several branches off the intro which each lead into a different plotline. One of my rules is that no submissions will be accepted which lead off the introduction...
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    Idea for my Story

    Well, since any characters who have sex need to be over 18 by site rules, that means you're dealing exclusively with the senior class. That's one thing to keep in mind. Here are a few things which occur to me off the top of my head: (1) A "Breakfast Club" scenario in detention. If I were...
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    Personal story request- rape

    Maybe this is out of line, but I have to take exception to the whole scenario. I'm OK with non-consent stories; it's not my cup of tea, but as long as it's fiction it's harmless. But the thing is, there's a non-fictional element here; you're asking us to write a rape story about a real person...
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    photos in chapters

    I've had lively discussions here about the pros and cons of pictures in stories; there are those who seem to hate the very idea of illustrated erotica. What I think people really don't like is that pictures get used as something of a crutch, to convey what should be conveyed in descriptive...
  6. Xenolan

    Biggest turn offs?

    I think it's worth mentioning that many of my turn-offs are things I would still put into a story; I just don't get a sexual thrill out of it. For instance, in one of my own stories, I included a scene where a major female character was chained in a dungeon, completely unclothed, and it...
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    Biggest turn offs?

    A big turn-off for me is incest, and there tends to be a lot of it in written erotica. With visual media, it's a concept that has to be spelled out (unless they're twins, you can't really convey visually that the people involved are related). When one is writing about sex, EVERYTHING has to be...
  8. Xenolan

    Hello! New here, two questions.

    This is very true, and I've seen a lot of stories which start along these lines and go nowhere, because the amount of work necessary to customize even a few elements is more than people realize. Let's say you want the reader to be able to choose three characteristics about the protagonist...
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    What's everyone's goal a.t.m?

    My own goals don't have to do with the stats, they have to do with the writing. I like to post and celebrate when I hit certain milestones on the Likes and such, but that's not really what it's about for me. One goal, I just achieved yesterday; I had a long thread going in another editor's...
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    What's everyone's goal a.t.m?

    You mean, the first to finish a COMPLETE story? I've seen threads in stories come to a conclusion before; I've done it myself several times. But if you're talking about concluding ALL the threads on a given story and then closing it to any further submissions, then I think you're right; no...
  11. Xenolan

    Best or Worst experiences with other authors?

    I can't say that anyone's ever been anything but polite and friendly to me around here. The most heated discussion I've ever had was about the appropriateness of illustrations in stories, and it certainly never got personal. This is actually the friendliest MB I've ever been on.
  12. Xenolan

    Reasonable violence and rules about homepages?

    There's only so much clarifying one can do on a rule like this, because it's essentially about taste and context. No matter how carefully one describes how THIS is allowed and THAT is not, there will always be reasonable exceptions and arguments. For example, imagine you're watching a car...
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    Best Friend's Bachelorette Party

    One could do this story with no one being related, but that's just not usually what wedding parties are like; weddings are inherently family events. There doesn't have to be incest just because two or more of the characters are related, they simply don't have sex with each other (you'd want to...
  14. Xenolan

    It's Good to be the King

    Random inspiration brought me back to the visitor's camp, where the King decides to wander about disguised as a commoner. More to come with new character "Maureen." https://chyoa.com/chapter/Explore-among-the-tents-of-visitors-from-afar.332896
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    Best Friend's Bachelorette Party

    I have observed that seven characters seems to be a fairly ideal number for stories like this, where the story is about a group of people with no other characters having a significant role. Seven allows for sufficient interactions and opportunities, while still making it so everyone can have...
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    Best Friend's Bachelorette Party

    I think this is a terrific story idea and I volunteer to write an introduction for it - I don't want the story itself on my plate, as I prefer to be the editor of just one active story at a time, but I'm happy to write up an intro and PM it to gene.sis (and as far as I'm concerned, you then...
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    Suggest new story category: "Test"

    My bad on thread placement... if it can be moved, that's fine with me.
  18. Xenolan

    Story idea

    I think this story could totally be done without including any supernatural elements, and it would be a stronger story for it. There's no need to involve any sort of mind-control; it's just someone with "split-personality" (there is some question among psychologists about whether that's even a...
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    Suggest new story category: "Test"

    I have a suggestion for a new story category called "Test". It's essentially a place where authors can try out the more complex features of CHYOA without having to put them into an actual story. I'm about to start messing about with variables and conditional options, and I'd like to practice a...
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    Thread-linking limit?

    Is there a limit to how many threads can be linked back to the Introduction? It was my intention on my latest story to link every thread which comes to a conclusion back to the Introduction so that readers may click on it to start again (I know there's a link right there on the page to do it...
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