What aspect of your Choose Your Own Adventure book did your map\u2014or did the mapping process crystallize?<\/p>\n
For me, the mapping process made me exercise patience.\u00a0 I was mapping the first branch of the book and completed it without any major issues.\u00a0 Then, I began to map the second branch, due a connection between the first and second branch, I noted \u201coh nice, it maps out to the other branch,\u201d thinking I would be done soon.\u00a0 After two hours went by, I counted the number of endings and I had forty-two instead of the book\u2019s advertised thirty-eight.\u00a0 This was a problem.\u00a0 Instead of starting from the beginning of the second branch, I decided to go backwards from the endings that I had missed initially.\u00a0 So when asked, what did the mapping process crystallize for me?\u00a0 It crystallized the mapping process should be done from beginning to end.\u00a0 Three to four hours later, I had worked backwards from several endings back to the beginning; it was not an easy task.\u00a0 Not all pages refer to exact page numbers, some are a page or two behind and it was rather difficult to map it this way.\u00a0 However, having mapped the book forward and backwards I have a better sense of how CYOA adventure books work in terms of construction.\u00a0 The map itself did not reveal any specific moral or ethical values; it did however reveal that there are three thematic endings, which were: a successful life, somewhere in the middle and death.\u00a0 At least in my book, out of the 38 endings, 21% were happy, 31% were somewhere in between and 44% resulted in death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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