Final If:Then story Reflection

The final assignment has both been one of the most enjoyable and the most stressful. The long length allowed me really explore the situation and write it out as I saw fit without cutting too many corners. I felt that with the limitations of the past assignment, I was too rushed into telling the story and left out some details. The weeks of preparation really let me work through some of the problems and develop the story as a whole. The process can be seen here. Of course the longer length involved more if/then moments which is the part I struggle most with. I find myself writing out the story in the way I think it should be laid out and going back and adding the decisive moments in afterwards. This leaves the secondary options much less developed than the original story. This for sure is not my strong suit in writing, but with the constant developing of technology, this is an important thing to practice and I will continue to write in this style in my free time. I think my problem is, as a writer, being sympathetic with the characters personalities. In the choose your own adventure games of my childhood, I failed to relate to the process since the options we're never something I would have chosen myself.

I realized in this assignment that the decisions aren't as relevant to the personality of the audience as to the personality of the characters. The character bios really helped in terms of writing character and character development. Image courtosy of http://jonathanshipley.blogspot.ca/2010/09/forked-path-childhood-death-and-choose.html