I don’t really care about choices. I prefer reading a story with a very few choices to one with a lot of pointless choices like what you want to eat, which direction you go. It also annoys me when I have to decide how to react when people are being mean to “me”. Come on, put them in their place, don’t just stand there awkwardly! These kind of choices feel like the characters are either not able to make their own decisions or the author tries to force choices where they are not needed at all. I’m not saying that choices should necessarily have a huge impact on the story, but I like to have the illusion that something happened.
I have to admit I rarely use meaningful choices in my stories, but I try to make them at least funny or somewhat creative. Since this is not easy I usually have only one choice per episode.
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