I understand your struggle, but even if you like the siblings, I recommend you let the player decide if they feel those same sentiments. I found terrible annoying as a player all those moments that writers shoehorn a type of relationships and feelings when is not needed by the plot, simply because the writer loves them or loves those scenes and wants to force everyone to experience the game exactly as the writers do.
Let the player who wants to have them around enjoy those scenes but not to the point the ones who kill them have no content and no rewards for doing so. A text game is a different equilibrium to write a novel.
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I’m also writing a scene relating to siblings for my wip but no manipulations 
And the player can try to build relationships with them if they feel like it
Although it’s work but it will be worth it.
Keep it up.
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@_@ I’m not going to lie, I wasn’t sure how someone could write a 20k+ chapter…Then I was introduced to the world of branching. It gets intense.
I’ve been drawing my ROs a lot when I get stressed out with writing, which is a lot of fun! It’s nice to feel like I’m working on something even if I’m not pounding away at the keys.
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Tell me about it I am still in the prologue of the first chapter and I am already in 13k. With branching as Cog games have 20+ episodes is nothing
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Sounds great. I love Monkey island, pirates of the Caribean and 7th sea. XD
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Thank you Elisa. I’ll do my best to keep up with your expectations. Wait. What’s that behind you? A three headed monkey! 
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Guybrush is maybe my childhood hero. So 100 onboard the Stan’s ships.
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How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
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Seems like releasing the state of my little project into the wild has been benficial. I have avoided my normal attention rotation and worked a bit more consistently on it over the last few days. August is going well so far, both in planning as in writing.
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The funny thing is as kid, I played the game in Spanish and the jokes were insane and different And difficult to follow As Guybrush Threepwood was not translated, so until I played in English didn’t really understand why the wording come from still that Carpenter was incredible. I love Ottis.
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Ugh I need to vent a little.
I’m genuinely pretty happy and proud of what I put out, most of the time. And I don’t feel like I write for attention or for fame (if I wanted that, I feel like I would go into a different field 
) And I have a lot of fun writing!
I just wish I didn’t…hit a brick wall so often. Sometimes I get distracted, but sometimes writing turns into this whole existential thing where I start questioning why I even do something when ‘X’ does it better, or why I write when sometimes it feels like I’m releasing things into an empty void. I know these things aren’t true, but I think it’s just very easy to feel isolated when I’m working on my story.
Sigh. But I really do appreciate the people who support me, and this thread has been a life saver. I think it’s just hard to keep everything in perspective, sometimes.
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For what it’s worth, I completely get that.
I think part of it is that a lot of tasks have a reasonable completion time with the attendant gratification of being done if nothing else, but writing? That usually takes a long time to get a project to completion stage. So there’s not really a way to get yourself the dopamine hit that comes with the success of just finishing something, at least not on a regular basis.
(Sometimes that can be ameliorated by sharing parts of the work and getting feedback, but then you can get the ‘talking to the void’ problem.) And for me, ‘X does it better’ rears its head even when I’m not talking into the void.
I still struggle with this sometimes too, so I don’t have any big fix for it, unfortunately. Heck, I’m not even sure if advice would be welcome, so I’ll just say that yep, I feel that, and it’s a pain. But I’m confident that you have stories to tell that people are going to enjoy, and this too shall pass, as it were. 
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I think you hit the nail on the head for me. I think it’s easy for me to worry about one particular sentence and scene and lose sight of everything else in the story. And I think it’s easy for me to forget feedback if enough time passes, so I kind of lose the drive I would get from someone’s motivational words in the past. Still, it’s helpful to know that I’m not the only person that feels this way.
Your advice really helped, honestly–I would say it’s more than welcome! Thank you so much, really. I’m really grateful that you took the time to comfort me. 
And again, just having this support thread makes me feel a lot less alone when I’m writing.
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OK, I’m not actually a writer so I don’t really have any business at all posting here and I maybe feel this could be better suited to the “why are you feeling thread” but here goes. I’m learning choicescript using the tutorials on the IDE download so I can give it a go, it’s a little more complicated than I thought but I’m going to keep at it, but what @bubblesodatea mentioned made me want to post something, I often think in a similar way though more generalised, it’s not a good way for me to think and I’m not proud to admit that seeing the popularity some people achieve with their stories here makes me jealous as hell sometimes. But, that’s not their fault I know that, I’m trying to learn so I can try for myself and not be jealous of people who rightly deserve so much praise for all the time and effort they put into their stories to make them so great. Here’s hoping I can channel some creativity into something worthwhile. 
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Ooh, good luck on learning CSIDE! I really hope you do keep working on the tutorials, and that you share your stories with us one day.
Ack, this is so dang relatable. I definitely experience this too, and I feel like it’s not fair to anyone. I keep trying to remind myself that writing isn’t really a competition - it’s not like someone can only enjoy one book ever.
Sometimes it’s easier to say positive things than actualize them, but it always helps to hear them from someone else. I can’t wait to see what you do!
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So I haven’t written much and it isn’t because of writers block…I need to find out the way a boarding school should be since it’s needed in my WIP
I also have a question,are there rules regarding the changing of the style.css file cause I feel tempted to play with it 
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I am starting to think I have Wip phobia. I can sit and write about anything and any other story. But at the moment I sit to write my WIP I get scared and erase anything that wrote and end with an empty screen. I know it sounds stupid as hell, but I have an immense amount of fear to do the ridicule in this forum that is like a home to me.
I don’t care so much write elsewhere but writing here has me scared as I feel I am not good enough and nobody will like my work and will insult me.
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No one here will insult you. At least not without being hit by the banhammer.
Also, you’re a better writer than you give yourself credit for. You just need to believe in yourself. If you somehow screw up, hey, that’s what we’re here for, right? We can let you know what you did wrong and you can fix it (or not, your choice). No need to beat yourself up over it.
Just present your work when you’re ready, alright? No need to rush it in. Good luck 
In other news, hospital sucks.
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ever 
Thank you for inviting me into this awesome community, I am learning a lot from you. 
I hope to have a testable WIP before mid-September.