What kind of choices do readers like to have?

[Wynmoon]

What do you like to be able to choose from and why? For example: I love choose your own sexuality/gender choices because it allows me to relate to the characters better. I also love life or death choices in tense moments.

Thoughts?

[missjulzed]

I totally agree on all of them. I also like the choices where you can change like the dialogue and what the character says and it affects the relationships with other people (points)

[amberose]

Life or death choices

[Scarlet_Sapphire]

ANSWERED: How do Episodians like their stories?

Answered here: how do Episodians like their stories? This thread is here to help you make a better idea of what people seek in stories on the app for yourself. It can also simply answer your questions, if you’re curious. I’m not saying you need to base your story on what the majority of people like (but you can), I’m saying you can learn what to expect for the story you make. 1 - First things first, what genre should my story be in? Apparently, a majority of people do care which genre the sto…

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Personally, some of my favourite stories have been light on choices. It takes a very skilled writer (and a certain kind of masochist) to write an excellent, captivating, nuanced, non-generic plot with multiple branch points. Not impossible, just a lot to expect on an app where the bottom 99% don’t get paid, and the top 1% just get some side earnings. Not to mention the fact that “you” is a certain character type, which limits choice-heavy stories to all having the same MC, “you.” A MC with unusual or “illogical” traits (anxiety, recklessness, etc) isn’t really compatible with choices. No reader is actually going to pick ‘chicken out’ or ‘procrastinate for 5 hours because you can’t make yourself face the task.’

The only choice-heavy stories that I find are exceptional are those survival-type stories, where the choices you make prepare you for future encounters.