{"id":311,"date":"2008-09-16T13:42:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-09-16T13:42:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T17:42:30","slug":"cyoa-reflection-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/09\/16\/cyoa-reflection-4\/","title":{"rendered":"CYOA reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through mapping out my Choose Your Own Adventure book I obtained a stronger grasp on how these types of books are set up. Although these books are obviously an easy read, it seemed like creating one would have been a daunting task for an author. With the formation of my concept map I learned certain techniques the authors used to format these books. I remember as a child always running into the same plots over and over again, but through mapping my book, <em>Deadwood City<\/em>, I realised just how many possible endings the authors had to create (my book alone having 38 seperate endings). Although there were quite a few stories that connected together, I was also surprised at how many seperate plots there really were in this barely-over-one-hundred-page book. It&#8217;s intriguing how simple and yet so complex these books tend to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through mapping out my Choose Your Own Adventure book I obtained a stronger grasp on how these types of books are set up. Although these books are obviously an easy read, it seemed like creating one would have been a daunting task for an author. With the formation of my concept map I learned certain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/2008\/09\/16\/cyoa-reflection-4\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CYOA reflection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2008\/343\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}