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.
• If you want to add a character to the first page, be my guest.
• If you want to add a mystical character (vampire, werewolf, witch, etc) feel free to do so.
• If you want to add a science fiction character (alien, superhero, etc) I may be okay with it, but I may not.
• Feel free to use 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.