The Chrissy B show

Okay, this is pretty awesome.  Next wednesday i'm heading down to London to be on the Chrissy B show.  Let me clarify what the Chrissy B show is.  It's an inspirational talk show (it's on mondays, wednesdays, and fridays at 9:30 on sky channel 203, check it out) and i'm going to be appearing on an episode about achieving dreams.  I'm going to be talking about my book and how I, well, achieved my dreams.  The air date of the show is on the monday the 4th of march (Although that isn't definite, so stick around for any updates).

I'm writing an interactive fiction story.  You probably don't know what that is.  Ever heard of a choose your own adventure book?  No?  Yeah, I guessed that.  Well, choose your own adventure books used to be popular a long time ago.  They were basically stories, but instead of you having one story being set out in front of you and you reading that, there were multiple paths the story could take.  For example...

You and your knights ride up to the castle, flags aflutter in the wind.  Atop the battlements you see legions of goblins, readying their spears and other makeshift weapons.
Turn to page 50 to charge into the castle.

Turn to page 65 to pee pants.

That's the basic idea.  Anyway, around the 70's, a popular type of game on the computer was the text based adventure game, which is basically like a choose your own adventure book, only on the computer.  Players would use commands like "move west" or "hit troll" to do things, sort of like in one of the aforementioned stories.  

So what i'm writing now is a more simple version of a text based adventure game.  It's called interactive fiction.  What I do is write what's happening in the story, like normal, but then give players a number of options so that they can change what happens in the story.  Yes, it's pretty hard. 

What i'm writing won't be great, as it's a first attempt, but oh well.  I'll notify everyone when it's done so you can go play it (if you want to)

One more thing.  If you like to write (and you're under 13) then be sure to enter the 500 word competition.  It's a pretty awesome short story competition in which you have to write a story that's 500 words or under.  You might as well check it out.  The link is below.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/500words/2013/

That's all for now.

Stay frosty,

-Joe