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Contents 1 Family-Friendly Stories 1.1 All Family-Friendly Stories 2 PG-13 Stories 2.1 All PG-13 Stories 3 Quizzes and Challenges 3.1 All Quizzes and Challenges 4 Mature Stories 4.1 All Mature Stories 4.2 Tips 5 Useful Links 5.1 Pit of Abandoned Stories 5.2 Help Wanted 5.3 Featured Stories 5.4 Meta-Games 6 Adult Stories 6.1 18+ Only. Do not read these stories if you are underage or if you are offended by adult material. 6.2 All Adult Stories

Family-Friendly Stories

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PG-13 Stories

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Quizzes and Challenges

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Mature Stories

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Tips

• Don't give too many options when starting a new story and leave half of them redlinked. Focus on a small number of story threads at first.
• Outline a general plan for what the intention of your story is when you start it, what genre it belongs to and what themes it has.
• As alternative to plain formatting for your story, you may try using Italics to write the Narration, regular Font for character Dialogue and Bold for Character/Item/Location names or important developments. Example: As you walked through the Forest, you heard a young girl calling out for you. "Jack! Wait for me! I have a gift for you!" Kate runs up to you and gives you the MacGuffin. Whatever style you choose, try to keep it consistent throughout the story.
• If you are having difficulty spacing out paragraphs, you can use <br>, which works as a line-break.
• Don't inject crude humor into a story that's intended to be played straight.
• The characterization of the protagonist, whatever he or she receives, should be consistent from choice to choice. If the protagonist chooses to kill someone and feels a great amount of guilt and regret over it, do not put in a choice where he/she later brags about killing that person unless there is some internal or external justification for it.
• If you are writing about a franchise such as Dungeons and Dragons or Star Wars, please do some basic research on the setting of the franchise. If, for example, you are writing about a story that is set in the Forgotten Realms world, please do not mention Pelor as while he is a Dungeons and Dragons god, he does not exist in Forgotten Realms. Ilmater, Lathander, and Torm are gods in the Forgotten Realms setting and are acceptable enough to switch with Pelor, as mentioned in the Forgotten Realms 3.5 edition of the Campaign Setting rulebook.
• Please categorize the pages in your story. For example, if your story is called "The Story", then please add [[Category:The Story]] to each new page you create for your story.

Useful Links

Pit of Abandoned Stories

• Stories of less than ten pages that haven't been worked on by anyone in some time will be dropped into the Pit. Feel free to retrieve stories from the Pit and put them back on the appropriate story-type page if you get inspired and add to one.

Help Wanted

• Looking to collaborate on stories? Look here for writers looking for help, or post a link of your own to ask for help.

Featured Stories

• Featured stories are back! Magikarp7297 is here to judge stories based on length, plot, and how well it fits together. Should be done whenever a new story is featured.

Tutorial

Meta-Games

CYOS Drinking Game (Teen/Adult, though you can play with soda or water if you're under the minimum age for drinking alcohol.)

You Know You Play Too Many CYOSs When...

Adult Stories

18+ Only. Do not read these stories if you are underage or if you are offended by adult material.

All Adult Stories