Choose Your Own Adventure!
With all the wandering my mind does, I'm bound to come across a good idea now and then. I think I've done just that today. Hopefully some of you will agree, because this idea won't really work if I'm the only one that likes it.
Do you remember those "choose your own adventure" books? You know the ones where it gives you the option to choose what the main character does in each potentially hazardous situation? For example:
"The goblins are quickly closing in, but you've run into the edge of a vast canyon. You nearly fall as you look over the edge noticing that the great river below looks like a small trickling stream. Turning around to look for some other means of escape, you see that you've been surrounded by a small army of disfigured green creatures."
"If you'd like to stand and fight the goblins, turn to page 94.
If you'd like to surrender to the goblins, turn to page 121.
If you'd like to jump into the canyon below, turn to page 62."
Well, my idea was that I could do something like that with my blog. I can write a story, and allow you, the reader, to control what happens between each section. Taking it a step farther, I'm going to even let you choose who the main character is before I start writing. So, here is the first choice:
Should the main character be:
A) A boy/man?
B) A girl/woman?
C) An animal?
D) An inanimate object that has somehow been given the ability to move around and interact with it's environment, possibly even the ability to speak?
Now just post a comment with your choice. This one probably isn't too bad, but for future reference, choose carefully. I'm giving you the power to control the story, but that power may be somewhat of a monkey's paw. You may not always get what you're expecting.
Do you remember those "choose your own adventure" books? You know the ones where it gives you the option to choose what the main character does in each potentially hazardous situation? For example:
"The goblins are quickly closing in, but you've run into the edge of a vast canyon. You nearly fall as you look over the edge noticing that the great river below looks like a small trickling stream. Turning around to look for some other means of escape, you see that you've been surrounded by a small army of disfigured green creatures."
"If you'd like to stand and fight the goblins, turn to page 94.
If you'd like to surrender to the goblins, turn to page 121.
If you'd like to jump into the canyon below, turn to page 62."
Well, my idea was that I could do something like that with my blog. I can write a story, and allow you, the reader, to control what happens between each section. Taking it a step farther, I'm going to even let you choose who the main character is before I start writing. So, here is the first choice:
Should the main character be:
A) A boy/man?
B) A girl/woman?
C) An animal?
D) An inanimate object that has somehow been given the ability to move around and interact with it's environment, possibly even the ability to speak?
Now just post a comment with your choice. This one probably isn't too bad, but for future reference, choose carefully. I'm giving you the power to control the story, but that power may be somewhat of a monkey's paw. You may not always get what you're expecting.
Labels: book, choose your own adventure, ideas, writing
4 Comments:
A. a boy or man
I choose an animal !
I'm going with animal as well.
This is hard to choose...I will go with animal
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