Action/Adventure: Choose Your Own Adventure?

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This week: Choose Your Own Adventure?

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"Not all who wander are lost." J. R. R. Tolkien

Have you ever thought of a story where you choose your own path?

I grew up with Choose Your Own Adventure. In the course of research, it has been interesting to see the history from the late 70s to current renditions. Most of the official Choose Your Own Adventure style books used a second person point of view, which is very rare but worked well enough for that.

How many of you read those and cheated? Kept your finger back on one spot to see if you made the wrong choice? Is it really cheating if we're enjoying the book so thoroughly that we can't put it down?

The awesome part about this is we can now turn novels interactive in a digital manner. You don't have to flip through the paper book in order to find the spot where you were and try to keep your place in case you find a bad ending.

Although we might have missed an opportunity that at least a couple books took advantage of, where you could riffle through pages and find a story completely separate from the main line in the book.

With apps and creative thinking, novels are starting to become something that the reader can become more involved in. Not that every novel needs to be this way, but sometimes it can be really fun to do something different. My NaNo project this year is a type of choose your own adventure. The outline has been driving me absolutely insane, and I think if I can conquer that, I will be doing great. If the project fizzles, I'll only have spent a few weeks on it. That makes NaNo perfect for trying something new, doing something differently, and taking off from your regular writing gig.

At least, that's what I'm hoping. So today's editor's picks show some interactives, which are WDC's version of choosing your own path. Good luck in your writing and all the November energy coming your way.

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Paragon: Guardian Seal. (13+)

The kingdom of paragon is being threatened by an evil power capable of decimating lands.

#2001402 by Llama

the dimension hopper (ASR)

the machine Alex made can travel through dimensions...but who uses it, and where to?

#2000910 by kingalex1234

Many worlds, Many stories. (13+)

You ever wonder about other worlds? Now feel free to explore them. 1st interactive.

#1999784 by Thornton

Realm Drifter (18+)

Travel to the worlds of fantasy novels, recruit their heroes, and fight alongside them!

#947623 by Bmao

A Wizard and his Dragon (13+)

Follow Trent's Journey through Shoven to stop the everlasting war between man and dragon

#1234979 by Trever Kelley

Following Destiny (18+)

A traditional fantasy story set in a land on the brink of war

#295669 by Andrea

The Outcast (18+)

A child becomes an outcast, because the child is half human

#1399758 by Bruce Lee Gifford Jr.

Mystical Forest (13+)

Choose your destiny in this fantasy adventure

#609481 by Beyond the Cloud9

INTERACTIVE

Central International Airport (18+)

An airport with destinations and new beginnings. Take a trip.

#1079969 by Legerdemain

The Crystals of Esylla (13+)

Teenagers sent to save a parallel world? Are they really cut out for the job?

#518537 by Daizy

The Prisoner (13+)

A young slave encounters another prisoner in the castle that isn't human!

#1562917 by Bruce Lee Gifford Jr.

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SkyHawk - Into The Music

Your comment about the Tai Chi instruction manual instead of the novel reminded me of something I did years ago. It was in the beginning of a novel (still in progress) about an Emergency Medical Technician having a very bad day. I had written a long description of almost everything he encountered while en route to a car accident. A friend read it and said I was trying to show off my ems knowledge instead of write a story. So I junked most of it and inserted the introduction of another character that would become a major part of the story. And it worked MUCH better!
Very good to figure out. Sometimes it's hard not to show off when we write, but the reader doesn't need all of it.

BIG BAD WOLF is Lucky

Animals are very tricky, especially those with human DNA in them.

Planet Animalus (18+)

Welcome to Animalus, home of the hybrids, people with strange customs. 25,330+ views

#1605306 by BIG BAD WOLF is Lucky

Oh My! But another interactive that might be fun to contribute to.

The Run-on King PDG Member

The only way I know that a horse would continue to scream is if it had an Arrow in its Butt and it went deep so every movement cause it pain. Also it wouldn't move much either as I'm sure the hero won the battle with the poor screaming horse. Most horses when afraid will buck you off and run away. They really don't take time to stay and scream.

I ran into this, I was riding a mare doing fence repair when a black bear attacked. The horse reared dropping me to the ground. I was grabbing my saddle gun when it reared. At least I had the gun with me on the ground. I quickly fired all my ammo into the bear and ran like hell for the ranch house. My uncle who owned the ranch returned to where I said I was at. He found a dead bear where I had fallen from the horse. He also found the horse. Apparently it hadn't ran off too far. He and his family still tease me to this day about how a dead bear made me run back to the ranch house with my tail between my legs as he likes to quote. I still ended up dragging it back to the ranch, hanging it up in a tree and skinning and gutting it out there for him. My uncle claimed the pelt and the meat which was fine with me I didn't know what to do with either anyway.
Your uncle sounds pretty savvy. And yes, use all that first-hand knowledge of animals and you'll be ahead of some of the rest of us.

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