>>5768997>>5769000Its a little more complicated then that. As a QM you generally need to have a your finger on the pulse of the thread. See what people are voting and saying and weave that into your mc. You can't stop and ask them every single time a decision needs to be made, you just over time start to "get" the character they are playing and make some assumptions about what the character needs to do in order to move things along. But having every single person vote to leave the sword just confused the shit out of me.
Imagine you are writing a quest, and you give the mc a side kick called "jester". Now the quest has been running for 2 months and like 1/3rd of the exposition is about jester and he is a big part of the story. Then you get to a point where you make a devil show up and give the player an ultimatum about killing jester for power and like 100% of people vote to kill jester. It's not about not knowing what to write or wanting to write it. You are sitting there thinking people like jester but it turns out everyone hates him. At that point you start to question everything. You question what the fuck are your readers on, but more importantly you start to question the work itself. Are people even reading your quest? Are they reading or just voting? How disconnected from the readers are you? Do they even understand what they are voting for? Is it you? Is it them? you think you are on the same wavelength as the readers but then you realize you are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Really took me out of my game and the thread died before I got a chance to sort it out.
It's really hard to know where to take the story after that. I have been basically sitting on a 90% done update. I got the art done the writing done, but I don't know if it's what the readers want.
>>5769000It just wouldn't work, because it's not the problem. Either way the thread died at the climax, if I start the quest up now it just wouldn't hit the same. Its like watching rocky right up to the boxing match, quiting, then coming back to watch it a month later. Hits completely different.
