Thread: [Links to Fictional Stories] Additional Reading
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Old 02-18-2015, 12:35 AM
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Well personally what get to me the most about that site is that the typical weaknesses of interactive adult stories are all a lot more present.

Weakness 1: Dead thread. It's hard enough to deal it with it on sites like writing.com but at least writing.com has is a decent story map that can visually work even for bigger stories. On that site there is nothing to give you an idea. Of the stories I tried on that site about 75% of all choices lead to dead end and you just have to go blindly. Not a fun reading experience.

Weakness 2: One thread wonder. It happen on writing.com. An "interactive" story will have just one thread with 50 chapters in succession. On that site if you find such a thread you consider yourself lucky.

Weakness 3: More choices than actual chapters. There are tons of stories over there that are just one landing page with a choice of about 20 different characters. And then after you chose a character you are presented with as many choices of age/settings. And that's about as far as the story goes. At least on writing.com there is a enforced limit on the number of options.

Weakness 4: Lack of focus. I don't think that site has any kind of chapter filtering at all. Stories change subject and theme so much there is no point even looking at the original blurb.
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