The Royal Succession

Discussion in 'Story Feedback' started by crunchyspag, Mar 19, 2018.

  1. crunchyspag

    crunchyspag Virgin

    Last edited: Mar 19, 2018
  2. GenericEditor168

    GenericEditor168 Really Really Experienced CHYOA Backer

    Not too late to add a link.
     
  3. Zeebop

    Zeebop CHYOA Guru

    There's a sizable amount of content, and the writing is a decent mix of plot development and boning. Chapter development is uneven; I get the impression that you (and your fellow contributors) get the idea for a storyline and pursue it, then get bored or lose interest after a while, leading to a lot of dead ends, or re-tracing back to branching paths...nothing uncommon there, most of the stories on the site do that sort of thing. I do get the impression that you're not entirely sure what to do after the moment of impregnation - when you even get that far. I think there's still a lot of potential left in the storyline and the characters.

    If I had one criticism on the writing, it's that the dialogue is very compressed. When you look at a recent chapter: https://chyoa.com/chapter/Stop-at-a-familiar-convent-(Cecily).423400

    A typical paragraph reads:
    Now imagine if this was decompressed:

    Same content, just different distribution: this changes the pace, breaks the dialogue down into smaller chunks for easier reading, easier to tell who is speaking.