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I suppose the alternative is to commit to going the rest of my life without meeting anyone new ... Maybe I'll try that and see how it fares.

I typically avoid names of people I know in real life. And when I meet someone new in real life -- and if that someone begins to take a major role in my real life (family, work, etc.), I look back on old writing and wonder how I could edit the past to retroactively avoid those names. I mean ...

Yes, I have most of it in other places -- though even if I was able to reliably track the name in a Word doc, I'd still have to go into each CHYOA chapter one-by-one, change each name one-by-one, and then resave (while clicking the 'edit silently' button each time). It's all possible, just time...

Does anyone know if there's a way to search an entire story for a given word? The real question/situation -- I want to change the name of one of my characters. I know she appears in like a hundred chapters, but I don't necessarily remember exactly which hundred. I would love to be able to log...

I feel like this should be a pinned post or something -- it very clearly answers several common questions (even more common after the short window of time during which there were restrictions on content). Super helpful summary, Friedman -- thank you!

Don't know the story, but just looked at it myself, and it's all of 13 chapters and a boatload of comments saying "where has all the content gone?" FWIW, my account is many years old, + email validation, + SubscribeStar support ... I have to imagine that the author (or another authority with...

Short answer: Yes. Longer answer: I've read a lot of stuff here (and elsewhere), and I realize that while there are zillions of genres and stories, the ones that most consistently and effectively get me going are my own. Sadly, I find bad spelling and grammar, inconsistent plot lines, poor...

This: https://chyoa.com/chapter/Adding-Pictures%2C-Linking-Chapters%2C-%26-Chapter-Formatting.320683 ... is part of this: https://chyoa.com/story/CHYOA-GUIDE.6006 Lots of valuable information and resources here.

Thanks for the reply! Does this apply to chapter titles and tags as well, or just to chapter text? That is -- can I use a word like "drunk" in a chapter title without consequence?

I have some days when I can write ten chapters or more. I have some months where I write nothing. Honestly, I have no sense of what kind of schedule to publish on. I know I don't have enough of a following for it to make much of a difference. I guess sometimes I try to get something published...

So what exactly happens? My stories are not of the category of what this list is meant to guard against -- but I've definitely used some of the words here in both story text and tags. Of this list, there are some words that have plenty of completely normal connotations: ... even are legit...

Everything above, yes. I am particularly boggled by one-sentence chapters that have dozens of likes on them. How is this nothingness getting any positive attention? I'm curious what you mean here. Does "going too wide" mean having too many options at the end of a given chapter? I never know...

In terms of the guidelines on this site (and particularly with regard to changes in categories and stories that have gone hidden) ... A mmf story about a father/son/unrelated-woman in which the two men don't interact with each other ... does that constitute *nc*st? Something along the lines of...

Has anyone from this thread actually gotten anything from asking for this magical "access"? Just curious. I'm not seeking it myself, but I'm mildly amused by the thread and curious whether it's accomplishing anything.

Why? Not a push back, just curious.

Maybe this has been discussed in a thread somewhere, but a quick search didn't help me. My question is: Are the main site and the forums linked? I have to log in separately to each. And if I encounter someone in a thread and I want to see their writing, I can't easily click their name to find...

Most of what I've written my whole life has been almost exclusively for me. Away from here, I've written two books, two short stories, three plays, about a hundred songs ... and almost none of it has ever been published. It's mostly to entertain myself, and to be a diversion from the rest of my...

So I know where my next "node" is ... that is, the next spot where all the threads will re-unite (before branching out again). The problem is, I keep creating more and more branches just ahead of that node, and I haven't finished ANY of them, so until then, I don't think it's right to move...

Fantasy enough to turn me on. Real enough to be possible.