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Fellow Authors! I have an issue with variables in my story, It's Good to Be the King. I have a chapter which will show different text depending on what choices have been made so far, using boolean variables. Here's a simple example to demonstrate: Let's say that early in the story, there is...

Can anyone recommend a site like CHYOA, but appropriate for all ages? I ask because I introduced my kids to my original Choose Your Own Adventure books, and they want to write their own. So I'm seeking a child-friendly site where they can do what we do here, but without the sex and other stuff...

It looks like ImageFap is no longer permitting links to pictures I have stored there. Anyone have a good suggestion for a site I can switch to? “Free” would be preferred, naturally!

Perhaps it's just me, but it seems that over half the active stories on the site fall into one of two categories: (1) Mind control or other means of super-powering the protagonist (2) Incest I guess I can understand why these two plot devices are popular in this format. The former seems a...

Hey everyone, Because I'm concentrating on just one story at this time, I have some ideas which may never come to fruition, and I thought I'd share them in case someone else wants to take them on. All of these could be written from a male or female point of view. Woo-hoo, Spring Break! In...

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...

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...

Hey everyone, Just a little commentary... I have a particular story on CHYOA (It's Good to be the King), which I kicked off about six months ago and have grown into a story with 126 chapters and one thread which goes 42 deep and comes to a conclusion. I intended it from the beginning to be a...

Throwing this one out there as an idea I came up with but don’t feel like writing... Our protagonist is a man in his mid to late twenties. One day his rich uncle dies and leaves him eighty million dollars in liquid assets. Our hero has no other close family, he’s an unattached bachelor, and...

I'm thinking that I need to go make a change in an already-published chapter, and I'm wondering if readers would find that offputting. Specifically, I'm talking about my story "It's Good to Be the King." One of the characters is a self-described "Warrior Queen," and I have a chapter wherein...

I've come across an odd problem which seems to be inherent to the CHYOA format. I'm not sure what, if anything, could be done about it. The problem is one which I have come to think of as "micro-spoilers". There are essentially two kinds of plot drivers: those which happen TO the protagonist...

What does it take to have a "notable story"? Is it something that gets decided by an actual person, or a combination of factors like longevity, "like" votes, and other things? I ask because one of my stories made the list (Yay!), and I want to know if there's someone in particular I should thank!

Maybe this is already a feature and I'm not aware of it, but I don't see it in the guide. Is it possible to terminate a story thread? On the old CHYOO site, one could choose to create an ending - a thread with no further options. That doesn't seem to be an option on CHYOA these days. Perhaps...

I'm faced with a strange problem... not one I'm looking for a solution to, just one that I felt the need to express. I've always enjoyed making up stories and writing; I used to entertain a small circle of friends back in grade school with the Adventures of Alabama Smith, incompetent but wildly...

This is probably a fairly common topic, but it's also one to which the responses might change from time to time. Does anyone have a recommendation for a good "Photo album" site? I've been using ImageFap, but it's not very reliable; sometimes I have to reload my pages two or three times before...

Is there a way to delete comments? My computer was taking a while to post one, so I clicked the button a couple more times, and ended up with three duplicate comments. It's on my own story, but I can't find a way to remove it.

It's Good to be the King In this tale from times past, the good King of Elyssia searches for a prospective Queen among his own subjects and those visiting from distant lands. You are the King, formerly a commoner, and your kingdom is having its tenth anniversary. Your advisors have suggested...

Is there a good place where I can test my formatting for CHYOO? I want to try a few complex things involving tables and pictures.

Hello... I used to be a fairly frequent contributor over at http://www.chyoo.com/, but I left because I kind of ran out of steam and because the site admins didn't seem to exist - or at least, they never responded to any sort of message or forum post. So I'm wondering, how does CHYOA compare to...