Choose : An Interactive Webserial
“Webserial” meaning that I’m writing it as I post it.
“Interactive” meaning that I frequently pause to offer a poll to readers, giving YOU the opportunity and power to shape and change the story.
A young, eccentric heiress on a mission. A sky pirate looking for a lucky break. Together, they and their crew are about to embark on a journey that will take them from one end of the world to the other. What will they find along the way? Love? Adventure? Treasure? Or will he end up throttling her before they make their next berth? You can help us decide!
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Awesome cover :)
@Steve
Thanks!
OOO I LOVE IT! The font used is perfect with the source material. Bravo!
<3<3<3 Thank you! It helps that I had such great art to work with. The cover really "POP"s!
[...] Choose is a choose-your-own-adventure style webserial. I post an installment and a poll on a loose schedule of every other week. The results of the poll determine something about the story. [...]
Would I be considered a big, fat cheater if I particpated in the poll WITHOUT having read all of Choose? Would you say ugly things about me up in Wisconsin?
Honestly, I may be okay with all that.
I find it quite difficult to get immersed in the story when the only means I have for reading it is on the computer. Lacking the technology to take the computer with me and sit comfortably on the sofa, I continue to associate computer time with work. I can, with little guilt, take short breaks from work and play or do laundry, but reading??
Surely, I have made this complaint already.
So let me know just how insulting this action would be so that I can make a proper risk assesment and proceed.
You may commence voting. Furthermore, a hard copy (paper and EVERYTHING) copy will be made available for the first 16 installments before the end of the month. =]
Procrastination is not my favorite thing, and waiting until the end of the month to get involved and fully informed was not to my liking. Casting a reckless and not fully informed vote seemed like a better option.
However, I did hesitate. You did not clarify if my name would be slandered and vilified by this action. It almost felt like entrapment the way you gave permission to commence voting.
I overcame this trepidation when I realized that there is little you could say that would cause me more pain than the comment that was uttered this morning by a mere second grader.
“Those jeans are really cute, but you have a really fat butt. The shirt is REALLY cute, though, and doesn’t show your fat arms at all!”
Henceforth, the jeans will be officially known as the “These Jeans DO Make Me Look Fat” jeans!!
I scuttled the second grader out of my room and grumbled, “Honesty is really important in relationships. You are so sweet to be so honest with me. I am just feeling THAT love.”
*laughs* Your name will be neither slandered nor vilified based on your uninformed voting status. It might be bantered around a bit, but always in good spirits.
Wow, second grade honesty. Ouch. Remind me to avoid small children. I prefer my delusions of scrawniness. And I really like these jeans.
Tami’s too gentle: We WILL make fun. But not of you. Generally, of ourselves (i.e., I make fun of myself, etc.).
I promise to try become an informed voter. Although, if you knew my attitude about voting for political candidates, you might not be very impressed with concept of informed voter!!
Small children need not scare you. They may shatter your delusions at times, but they are immensely creative and imaginative. That outweighs the brutal honesty for me.
And the comment is a girl-thing. My boys never said things like that. It is just her way of letting me know that my appearance matters to her. She wants me to look nice…and young and beautiful, but she didn’t bother to come along until I was finished with youth and beauty. So who’s fault is that!!??
Here was the shattering comment that my oldest made when HE was in second grade.
“Teenage girls are just like grown women. I mean, they look just like them. Well, except teenage girls don’t have hair on their faces or really big dupas (Polish slang for butt). But otherwise, they are like adult women.”
That one took my breath away. What was an eight year old boy doing looking at teenage girls anyway!!!??
@Anne
There’s no such thing as a bad vote in this. I rig the election candidates. I never know the outcome, but I always know who’s running.
I highly doubt you’re finished with youth and beauty. Your outlook is too fresh for you to age. =]
Also, ‘dupas’ is slang for butt? How have I never heard this?
Well, your elections are no different than any others,rigged by the sponsors! Do Chicago voting rules apply in your elections? Vote early and vote often??
Youth and beauty disappear on the exterior, no matter what the outlook of the interior.
Well, clearly you never had a father say, “Sit your dupa down!!”
@Anne
The Tami Moore Choose Provisional Government is very open about our Poll policy.
http://tamimoore.com/choose/2009/02/do-the-polls-always-dictate-the-next-step-in-the-story/
The rules say you should only vote once – loosely enforced via an IP address check. I don’t try to police it beyond that. If someone’s THAT determined to vote multiple times, I don’t stop them. =]
I’ve never had an anyone say “Sit your dupa down!!”
Is it pronounced “DOO-pah” or “doop-AH”?
DOO-pah
Well, the lessons my grandfather taught me about voting in Chicago all involved being paid for voting early and voting often. If you are not going to pay me to sway an election, I’ll stick with my own voting criteria.
@Anne
*laughs* Good heavens, no. Not even my husband votes “my” way. Although people are encouraged to lobby for their favorite option in the comments, as far as I know, we don’t have any cartels or muscle gangs swaying the polls. ^_^