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<h1>Create Your Own Story</h1>

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<b>Create Your Own Story</b> is a wiki that thrives on a kind of Interactive Fiction called Choose Your Own Adventure stories. CYOA's are stories where the reader assumes the role of the main character. On each page, you make a choice that decides how the story should progress. If you don't see an option that you would like to pursue, click the Edit Tab on the top of the page and add a new path to the page then write in your own story for the character.

Please note that this site is specifically for Create Your Own Stories with the ability to select from different choices. If you decide to post a story that has no choices, your story will be deleted as such stories are not appropriate.

We currently have [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] [[Special:Allpages|articles]].

<h1>Getting Started</h1>

If you're new to this site, please read our [[Tutorial]] to learn how to edit stories. Please '''do not''' add new stories to the Main Page. Add new stories to the sub-pages for each story type below. New stories added to the Main Page will be removed from the Main Page post haste.

If you want to practice editing, you should do so on the [[Sandbox]].

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==Etiquette and Other Useful Info==

'''Tags and Labels:'''
* Stories with the {{Public}} tag are stories that are meant to be edited and added to at any time. Please adhere to any notes listed on the story's entree.
* Stories with the {{Private}} tag are stories that are only to be worked on and added to by the original author or the current primary author. Please refrain from editing these stories without receiving express permission of the original author.
* Stories with the {{DNE}} tag are not to be edited at all (except perhaps to fix spelling, grammar, or link errors).
* Stories with the {{Abandoned}} tag are stories (Usually private in nature) that have apparently been abandoned by the original author. They haven't been worked on in at least 6 months and may be "claimed" by another author who becomes the current primary author. If that author stops working on the project, then the abandoned tag is reapplied. Note: The original author may still return, and thus their decisions take precedence if that proves to be the case. ''Note:'' The original author may still return, and thus their decisions take precedence if that proves to be the case.
* Stories with the {{Adopted}} tag are formerly abandoned stories where another Author has "adopted" ownership of the work. They are maintaining, updating, and/or adding to the original work on a regular basis in absence of the original author, and as though he/she were the original author.
* Stories with the {{WIP}} Tag are stories that are still in the process of experiencing major additions to the story.
* Please put '''all''' tags in the notes section and not the pages section of the story repository, unless otherwise stated.

'''Organization:'''
* Please use the <nowiki>{{PAGESINCAT:<Story Name>}}</nowiki> tag to denote the number of pages in your story; that way, you don't have to manually update the page count every time you add or remove a page. Put this tag under the pages column.

== Tips ==

*If you don't care enough about your writing to attempt to use proper grammar or spelling, chances are that people won't care to read it. If grammar isn't your strong suit, you may want to look over some [[Grammatical Tips]].
*Don't give too many options when starting a new story and leave half of them redlinked. Focus on a small number of story threads at first.
*Outline a general plan for what the intention of your story is when you start it, what genre it belongs to and what themes it has.
*As alternative to plain formatting for your story, you may try using ''Italics'' to write the Narration, regular Font for character Dialogue and '''Bold''' for Character/Item/Location names or important developments. Example: ''As you walked through the'' '''Forest''', ''you heard a young girl calling out for you.'' "Jack! Wait for me! I have a gift for you!" ''Kate runs up to you and gives you the'' '''MacGuffin'''. Whatever style you choose, try to keep it consistent throughout the story.
*If you are having difficulty spacing out paragraphs, you can use <nowiki><br></nowiki>, which works as a line-break.
*Don't inject crude humor into a story that's intended to be played straight.
*The characterization of the protagonist, whatever he or she receives, should be consistent from choice to choice. If the protagonist chooses to kill someone and feels a great amount of guilt and regret over it, do not put in a choice where he/she later brags about killing that person unless there is some internal or external justification for it.
*If you are writing about a franchise such as ''Dungeons and Dragons'' or ''Star Wars'', please do some basic research on the setting of the franchise. If, for example, you are writing about a story that is set in the ''Forgotten Realms'' world, please do not mention Pelor as while he is a Dungeons and Dragons god, he does not exist in ''Forgotten Realms''. Ilmater, Lathander, and Torm are gods in the ''Forgotten Realms'' setting and are acceptable enough to switch with Pelor, as mentioned in the ''Forgotten Realms'' 3.5 edition of the Campaign Setting rulebook.
*Please categorize the pages in your story. For example, if your story is called "The Story", then please add <nowiki>[[Category:The Story]]</nowiki> to each new page you create for your story.

<h1>Useful Links</h1>

<h4>[[Talk:Main Page |General Discussion]]</h4>

<h4>[[To-Do List]]</h4>

==Tools for the Trade==

<h4>[[Tutorial]]</h4>

Learn the Ropes (Needs some cleaning up and improvement).

<h4>[[Sandbox]]</h4>

Test out your editing skills.

<h4>[[Ideas, Pitches, & Proposals]]</h4>

Got an idea for a story, challenge, or meta-game? Go ahead and start it! If you don't have the time or skills to write your idea down, feel free to post the idea in here (the linked page) so that someone else who likes the idea can come along and build off of it.

<h4>[[Help Wanted]]</h4>

Need help with a story? Need some quick and unofficial feedback? This is the place to discuss it!

<h4>[[The Review|The Hall of Reviews]]</h4>

Need to post official feedback on a story? Look in here and post it!

==Stories & Games==

<h4>[[Featured Stories| Featured Works]]</h4>

Stories that are chosen for the spotlight based on length, plot, how well it fits together, and overall quality. Will be rotated out fairly regularly.

<h4>[[Popular Stories| Popular Works]]</h4>

Stories that everyone likes to read, have been featured many times, or were at one point on the front page.

<h4>[[Recently Updated Works]]</h4>

Stories that were updated within the last couple of months.

<h4>[[Up & Coming Works]]</h4>

Stories with less than 50 pages and/or stories that were started within the last two years, that are regularly being worked on and updated.

<h4>[[Pit of Abandoned Stories|Abandoned Stories]]</h4>

Stories that haven't been updated in a while. Feel free to retrieve stories from here and put them back on the appropriate story-type page if you get inspired and add to one.

<h4>[[Meta-Games]]</h4>
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<h4>[[All Stories]]</h4>

Grants access to subpages that contain all stories of a particular Rating or Genre.

<h1>Sample Stories</h1>

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