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A Serious Problem Regarding my Story
11 years ago
So for those who know my Interactive, there's something that's been troubling me lately. I may not have written much of it out yet, but I have specific goals in mind for my story and specifically some of the characters that I have created.
One member in particular seems to have been doing their own thing however, and I believe they're basically hijacking my story and turning it into a way for them to have their own Choose Your Own Adventure without having to pay for a Writing.com upgraded membership (I have my own objections to charging for a feature that was once free, but that's another topic).
If you look at the recent chapters list it will become obvious who this person is, as they and another new author have made almost 50 chapters non-stop over the past week. I feel like it's derailed my interactive and is giving the wrong impression of what this is about for new readers.
I plan on deleting said chapters sometime soon, but would like to ask how my few watchers on here would feel about that? I will talk to these two first before I delete anything by them, but I would like opinions from you guys.
Thanks everyone.
One member in particular seems to have been doing their own thing however, and I believe they're basically hijacking my story and turning it into a way for them to have their own Choose Your Own Adventure without having to pay for a Writing.com upgraded membership (I have my own objections to charging for a feature that was once free, but that's another topic).
If you look at the recent chapters list it will become obvious who this person is, as they and another new author have made almost 50 chapters non-stop over the past week. I feel like it's derailed my interactive and is giving the wrong impression of what this is about for new readers.
I plan on deleting said chapters sometime soon, but would like to ask how my few watchers on here would feel about that? I will talk to these two first before I delete anything by them, but I would like opinions from you guys.
Thanks everyone.
I'd talk to them and then give them a week or so to copy and save their chapters to their computers. Just make sure they know it's coming and have time to save their stuff. I remember one interactive I wrote for (Master), where the owner deleted it... Twenty chapters, just gone. Still a bit bummed about that...
Despite the fact that I even bought him a basic account so he can make his OWN interactive to practice in and write his own stories.
And this is all because I don't have the heart to tell him his writing is bad and I think it's bringing down the quality of the story. I don't even know if it's worth continuing my interactive anymore. I don't think anyone gives a damn and it feels like pointless effort, especially if I have to deal with this nonsense. :c
The only other thing you could possibly do for him is save his chapters for him and present him with a folder full of the entries transcribed into word documents, but that would be far above and beyond what anyone could possibly expect from you.
I'd say not to give up on continuing your interactive and just tell him, but that would probably ring hollow, as I'm not the one who has to deal with this sort of thing.
Other than that, I'm not sure what else to say.
But yeah, once I get back to the story that'll likely be what I do now. Needs a bit of an overhaul.