Yet, at the same time, one of the hardest parts of being an author is knowing when what you are writing will be either harmful to the audience or yourself: editing is largely a process of self-censorship and is very necessary for success. That said, if you are not enjoying what you write: the readers will be able to tell, so, find the balance point between writing what you enjoy, writing something of good quality, and writing something the reader will enjoy. As with most skills, this is something you must learn over time. While some people can teach you some aspects: writing is a uniquely individual profession, and most of your techniques and process are ones you will have to discover for yourself.
Create the story, but don't publish yet. I would advise not publishing until it is at a BARE MINIMUM 10 chapters deep and has at least two storylines with that depth.
And when you do post don't push everything at once either. Put a few chapters out first then add a chapter or two a day. Pace yourself.
When publishing the story, all existing chapters will be published by default. So you'd have to save that drafts somewhere else. Having some substance can be quite useful but writing about 20,000 words before publishing is a lot to start with! Publishing earlier can be motivating and can help to avoid early flaws which can't be fixed without scrapping the whole stuff after the introduction. It is much more important to update regularly.
That shouldn't keep you off writing at all. For my active stories, I try to publish at least a chapter per month.
Write what you like. If we all waited to write what we thought everyone else wanted, we would rarely write. I have a small niche of what I like to write, and have some followers, but I know none of my stories or threads will ever make the most read or recommended list.
Welp, since this squabble doesn't seem to want to go away, I'm involved now. And since I'm getting tired of this cropping up, I'm going to publicly post my multitude of reasons for each action. From the top: Deleted for being venomous, self-important, and annoying. Nemo, next time you feel like making a post like this, save me and the few people who actually hit the report button a load of trouble: remember how many topics you've derailed and how many users you've chased away, and shut it! I appreciate the effort, but next time, just hit the report button. My intervention doesn't derail topics anymore than they already have been as yours did and caused, and actually has the authority behind it to set topics straight. And since you're off-topic and derailed a topic even further, deleted. Less than 24 hours does not constitute enough time to say a topic has "moved on" and silence all debates that have not reached a proper conclusion. This is especially so for necro-posters like yourself, who have demonstrated no comprehension of when a subject has "moved on." No you didn't. You said you disliked the premise because morals. That is not feedback, that is you getting on a soapbox. Again. So childishness and ad hominem while offering nothing useful or on-topic? Yep, that's a deletion. Again: report button. I will handle it without all the unnecessary drama. If you're desperate, PM me or Friedman, preferably on the forums. Again: deleted. Only pointing this out because I feel obligated. mindtheMILF, I truly cannot take any offense to this post since your reference still keeps you completely out of it. However, given that I'm purging the topic of this nonsense, I also feel obligated to remove this. Two off-topics? Two-deletions! A great post demonstrating why you should let me be the moderator, and you just focus on directing my attention. Also a great excuse to quote Nietzsche: Given that you actually included something meaningful, I'm going to only edit your post. I was hoping to leave you as a pillar I could point to. Someone who, even if it fails to do the right thing, can avoid doing the wrong thing. So much for that. Deleted. So I see that in the time my computer crashed and I rebooted, you had the good sense of mind to delete this yourself. But I'm still going to highlight it for the blatant double standard. If by "wrong" you mean "rule breaking," you're wrong. You successfully derailed another topic. If by "wrong" you mean "being a detriment to the site," you're wrong. Your high horse risked driving another users away. If by "wrong" you mean "invalid," then you're wrong. Initially, you could not be bothered to criticize without putting your perception of morality at the forefront of it all - which has absolutely nothing to do with aiding another writer - and thus didn't offer any constructive criticism until dragonmaster77 decided to give your pontifications a firm punt. From the same mind that brought us, "make me!" Yet you do nothing but complain when someone dares to challenge your view. I especially love when your challenge is me and you cry, "You can't debate me because you're a moderator and have to remain impartial, but I'm still going to pick apart your posts because I'm not encumber by responsibility or obligated to be fair." Example goes further than words. If you want us to start with something of substance when we deal with you, how about starting with something of substance yourself? Let's be honest: if I drilled everyone on gun control, abortion, death penalty, welfare, economic policy, foreign policy, Plank of Carneades, religion, and more (you know, basic topics with moral considerations) while assuming there are no duplicate accounts, I'm pretty sure I'd have 55,201 results with no perfect overlaps. So we can't really call moral debates substantive for writing technique, can we? Then stop making topics about you and your moral machinations. Any subsequent posts on this moral matter will be deleted on the spot. Please continue this topic without bringing this shit into it again or I'll have to start breaking out more of my tools.
I would say that the advice of Nemo of Utopia, mindtheMILF and gene.sis is certainly certainly sound and good, if you want to maximize the exposure of your story on chyoa. However, as you appear to be a new writer, i would suggest something different: Think about yourself first. If you have fun writing this, just do it! Once you yourself are happy with the introduction and the chapters that you have created, just publish what you have. Don't feel obligated to meet some arbitrary numbers of words or chapters. Not every story can be an instant hit, and not every author has the time and dedication to write a whole novel. And of course, if you just publish one or two chapters, and don't update your story at all, it will fade away from the chyoa front page quickly, and it is unlikely to find a wide audience. But still, your creation will be there. People can find it if they search for Power Rangers. And who knows, perhaps your story and chapters can give some inspiration to someone else who is equally enthusiastic about this topic. But you'll never find out, if you don't publish your creation ;-)
Actually, yeah, what Dingdong's just said is pretty solid advice. However, I AM going to still recommend that you try for at least two branches of at least three total chapters (counting introduction) just so that you give whoever reads it in the future a good sense of your intent, your vision of the story if you will. We've got over twenty pages of abandoned one chapter stories: if you can help it, "don't be that guy"... EDIT: (I also freely admit that some of those abandoned stories are mine, but, as I said: "IF you can help it...")
Back sorry for dropping out. I mostly had to think about what it would be going ahead and what I wanted and I decided that I want it to maybe have two paths for each ranger world one would be the orginal idea the hypnotism or time stop powers, this would be known as the Evil route mostly and the other is Seducing and charming good route. Also White Mystic (Yes still haven't got a name for the lust goddess yet) is neutral she wouldn't care what you decide.
