Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-34263048-20200130000145/@comment-31359001-20200201141230

I've noticed that the scenarios that do the best over here usually just prompt the reader with a location and an obstacle. For example:

location- at a university / obstacle- mamono zombie outbreak

Location- zipangu / obstacle- lusty translator

Or in the wwyd above, location- road through the forest / obstacle- a group of orcs is trying to find you Etc. Etc.

It helps to flesh out the location and the obstacles, by being creative and making them unique. Using the previous examples: you're trapped in your dorm room and a close friend is a mamono-zombie coming to get you. Or in the second example: your lusty translator has used the language barrier to trick you into showing up somewhere embarrassing.

Add details, and definitely be creative! But detailed and creative doesn't necessarily have to mean complex.

The biggest challenge (for me, at least) is to leave the situation open enough so that readers can insert their own characters as the protagonist to the scenario. I don't want to force people to be a specific character, but instead see what their characters will do.

Aaaaaaand, sometimes you just get unlucky and a wwyd prompt simply doesn't get much action for whatever reason. It happens. Don't let it discourage you from writing, and good luck out there!