Hey! I’ve got a “few” questions about stories. This is everything I could think of that could help (new) authors writing their stories. Thanks for answering in advance:) Feel free to skip some questions since some of them aren’t “necessary”, maybe just questions you don’t know an answer to, or questions you already could’ve answered in other questions. Honestly, I would skip all these questions, but if you have time or you’re bored, I guess you can fill time with this.
-1 What is your preferred chapter length and story length?
-2 How important are choices? Do you prefer it if the choices matter?
-3 What is your favorite kind of MC? (looking at personality and maybe even looks)
-4 What kind of MC do you absolutely hate?
-5 What is your favorite kind of LI? (looking at personality and maybe even looks)
-6 What kind of LI do you absolutely hate?
-7 What kind of side characters are your favorite and do you want to see more often?
-8 What kind of side characters do you hate?
-9 Do you like to have the choice to play as a male or female, and the choice to date a male or female?
-10 Favorite kind of stories? (Genre, anything special you saw in a story you wanna see more, highschool, college, mafia, business, etc.)
-11 How important is CC for you? Do you rather have limited, or none?
-12 Do you like playing more like yourself, or as the character the author makes? (Like changing the name of the MC, CC, etc.)
-13 Preferred amount of LI’s? And why?
-14 What makes you read(/click on) a story?
-15 Biggest pet-peeves?
-16 Do you like art scenes?
-17 When you look at a story cover, does it matter to you whether it is edited, drawn, or maybe even a self-made picture? What kind of cover makes you click the fasted?
-18 When looking at the description of a story, what is the best thing an author could put in there? (Like questions, the amount they tell you about a story…)
-19 Do you like to see self-made background characters or people’s characters that the author asked for on the forums (or other social media)?
-20 Do you more often read stories that came from contests (whether they won or not) or just stories that aren’t made for contests?
-21 What do you think of the author’s notes?
-22 What do you think about authors putting themselves in stories? When does it get annoying? (For example, if they give themselves a big role, they just randomly show up, they use themselves as background characters, etc.)
-23 When you look at outfits, on a scale from 1 to 10, how much does it annoy you when the outfits of background characters don’t fit the setting? (Like casual clothes in a club where the MC, LI, etc. go to with exclusive clothes)
-24 How important is advanced directing for you?
-25 What gem choices do you really dislike in community stories?
-26 What gem choices do you “like” in community stories?
-27 Do you prefer stories with or without sound? Or do you rather have a made playlist by the author? (Music, sound effects, etc.)
-28 Since most people’s pet-peeve is grammar/spelling/punctuation, how many mistakes can you tolerate before clicking off?
-29 Are there certain scenes you absolutely despise? (For example, a shower scene of just the MC singing to fill in some time)
-30 Are there certain scenes you absolutely love?
-31 How fast do you prefer character development to go?
-32 When the author also writes a bit in another language, do you think it is annoying, nice, cool, or something else? And how much of the other language is too much since reading the reader’s messages can be very annoying sometimes?
-33 When reading a story, how annoying is it to you when there isn’t a lot of diversity?
-34 When reading a story with diversity, but the more diverse characters are purely stereotypes and inaccurate, what do you do with the story you were reading?
Later added question-35 Do you mind if the LI isn’t introduced right away? Does it matter to you if the story now really focuses on the LI?
I’m not gonna lie, I really didn’t expect to think of so many questions. To the people who actually answered (most of) the questions, thank you:).