2T4U/Editing Rules

From Create Your Own Story

Relatively Simple Editing Rules:

• Second Person : Present Tense
• Preface all choices with 2T4U/ and provide identical alternate text without 2T4U/.

*[[2T4U/This is a choice|This is a choice]]

• Entries should be at least a paragraph in length. One sentence entries are LAME.
  • If you feel you need a single sentence entry to give the player various options, do it on the same page. ie.

'''What do you do?'''
*[[2T4U/This is a choice|This is a choice]]
*[[2T4U/This is another choice|This is another choice]]

Or do you take her to another part of the house?
*[[2T4U/Take her to your room|Take her to your room]]
*[[2T4U/Take her to her room|Take her to her room]]
*[[2T4U/Take her to the bathroom|Take her to the bathroom]]
*[[2T4U/Take her to the kitchen|Take her to the kitchen]]

NOT

'''What do you do?'''
*[[2T4U/This is a choice|This is a choice]]
*[[2T4U/This is another choice|This is another choice]]
*[[2T4U/Take her to another part of the house|Take her to another part of the house]]

With the entry for Take her to another part of the house simply being one sentence and a selection of rooms.

• All stories are interconnected.
• If you want to put in new characters feel free to do so, but also feel free to interact with any characters that have already been introduced. Feel free to give the reader the option to play as another character in the scene if you wish.
• Try not to put in bad ends. If a character goes to prison; that’s more material for the story. Even if you kill off a character, that doesn’t mean that the story ends. They can continue to have fun as a spirit.
• I reserve the right to edit and or delete entries that are poorly written, or to bring two or more passages in line with one another.