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I don't know an agreed-upon name for it, but to be clear it sounds like you are referring to stories where circumstances contrive to have the protagonist have sex without him/her seeking it out? I should say that although your examples all technically fit under that umbrella, the hook of each...

One person who also writes here and introduced me to it. Besides that, I think there are a few people in our friends group who know, but the response upon learning was very much "Haha, you would be doing that!" and then moving on.

I prefer to see locked choices. I'd say this is purely a preference thing, though: some people are going to be bugged if they see options they aren't able to click, and some are going to be bugged if they find out there were options they couldn't see. Maybe it depends on how you want your story...

Definitely 3 for me. I get that I can't control it, but it is a shame to feel like you were letting lightning out of a bottle only to see a muted response. Of course, if we're being honest, sometimes I have the opposite, releasing a chapter that I feel like isn't my "A game" only to see it rake...

I think the title of Destyn is fine. I do think you need to explain it. Ways to do this are: 1. An info dump. 2. Have a Destyn doing something and begin to contextually explain why being a Destyn means they do those things. 3. Have characters talk about what a Destyn is/does, or 4. As a more...

Prefacing this by saying the original picture was inoffensive, this seems like an ideal sort of picture to get the themes of your story across. I don't think I'd worry about it not explicitly being a scene in your story if it matches the themes.

This is, as you say, a personal preference deal, but I feel that the best option is to give readers something that's best representative of what your story is going to be like. If the shallow branches are shallow because your story is intended by nature to have many shallow branches, then that...

I won't pretend I'm not paying attention to it, but the relationship is ultimately unreliable. For a while I was tracking something like 1 like in 10 views being a comfortable point, and only in the first day of posting, but I discovered that even that fuzzy metric only tracked as a Stat on...

Again, I may be confused, but I don't understand the concern. I'm not sure how being able to see a user's activity queue has anything to do with juicing likes. For the purposes of this, I'll define "like juicing" as a process by which a story can gain likes other than separate individual users...

I saw this brought up in another thread and since it wasn't the primary topic there, I'd thought I'd spin off and see if there was interest: Right now, I think the only privacy setting you can enable on chyoa main site is to hide your online status. It seems some users are hesitant to use...

I'm not 100% sure I get the whole post but I'll attack the tl;dr question. The first thing to consider is why you'd want to "convey a scene" rather than a series of "bursts" of thoughts. I believe the easy answer is that many readers want to be able to construct a mental scene and form...

May need more description to understand. Is the intent: They reach x=100, and then find they can only choose one of the two options, which takes them to the "lose" chapter. In this case, you'd use conditions to lock out which the player could choose (x>=100 for the lose, x<100 for all others)...

Anime/manga is my wheelhouse too, so I'll frame it this way (but the example should also apply to other media): I think there are a number of examples of shows that are "battle anime" or "sports anime" with titillating "fanservice" either liberally or conservatively used. But even where this...

The first dictionary definition I see, which also seems to be common, is: "relating to or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement." So, I tend to think of it as about the intent. Such acts are generally socially unacceptable to talk about in an open setting, to begin with. If a writer...

There are a number that fit. If you plan to make the humor a focus, Humor and Satire could be a good way to pull in viewers who'd appreciate it when it appears on the list. Personally, while I understand the thought, I'd avoid Non-Erotic for an ENF story. The most useful thing to do for...

At least for me, when I'm adding tags on mobile, I have to click a "Go" button at the bottom right of my virtual keyboard to make it add the tag. In that case, the tag will receive a blue background to indicate it's active and I can type another. If I just click away from the tag, somewhere else...

The original post was, by context, definitely referring to "Captain Marvel" of Marvel and not DC. The most recognizable iteration of Marvel's "Captain Marvel" appears to be 18 or over. Apologies if this is disassembling a joke, but the post reads like an accusation and wanted to head that off if...

In the top right corner of chyoa main website there is a drop down menu where you can see a "My Stories" tab. If you click that, you'll see a list of your stories. Click the icon that looks like three dots at the top right of any story before clicking into it. You should see an option allowing...

I do have standards but they're not anything strictly defined. The only things I keep as standards for sure are: 1. I do at least one editing pass, having learned my lesson that I'll always miss or be able to improve on something, in terms of grammar or flavor. 2. The end of the chapter should...

I may be misinterpreting your comment, but if not, I think the problem is simply a misunderstanding of link chapters. So, if you want to have the following two routes possible: 1. A -> B -> D 2. A -> C -> D All you need to do is the following steps: 1. Write chapter A. 2. Write chapters B and...