Bitter Love Biter
This involves super powers so I wasn't sure if this should be fantasy or sci fi. If it should be sci fi let me know and I'll change it.
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I'm wanting to write a form of pick-your-own-adventure, and I want to write it in first person. What I have so far is:
Ryan is a "cop" (hired by them but not legitimately one of them) and he is sent to stop a bank robbery that is going to happen. This is introduced in chapter one. Chapter 2 begins with Johnny, a villain with fire and invisibility powers, and he is the one who's going to rob the bank. I'm hoping these 2 chapters will parallel each other. The end of chapter 2 will then give you the choice to follow either Ryan or Johnny. And each subsequent chapter is then whoever you want to win/fail.
The problem that arose with this layout is that I would essentially be writing 2 similar stories, because I would have to write out all of the win/fail chapters from Johnny's view, and then write them again from Ryans view. I was debating on making them 2 separate stories for this reason. One by Johnny and one by Ryan.
1. What do you think of the story? Ask me anything, it could get my ideas flowing (:
2. Should I write two separate stories?
3. Instead of having the choices as a win/fail, should it just be who to follow? (So the same plot but choosing who you view it through).
I believe this would be a fantasy because sci-fi involves more technology and aliens and journeys to beyond the stars and so forth.
Fantasy is a bit more general, something happens beyond our understanding that grants an individual something special.
1. I honestly think its a very ambitious project that would require a lot of work. Having to write out two plots in the same book while trying to maintain a certain page count/word count to submit to a publisher sounds exhausting. Unless you plan to self publish then by all means lol.
2&3. These two kinda go hand and hand. If you do two separate stories in the same book but you the reader choose which story you want to read first, then they can not be the same in any way. The characters should have two different stories, two different perspectives, and two different personalities. Who wants to read a book with two main characters that have the same everything? Kinda boring.
Also, what you could do is have the characters switch places in alternating chapters. Like the even chapters is Ryan and odd chapters are Johnny or something like that. That way, the reader can go, "Alright, I want to follow Ryan's story so let me skip to the next even chapter to continue it."
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