Thread:MJNSEIFER/@comment-33210834-20171008010704/@comment-2170890-20171012005420

Thank you. :) I attempted to do quite a few actually, but none of them really got anywhere.  In no particular order, they were;

Book 1: You and your friends go to a funfair, and enter a House of Horrors that turns out to be real. Not really sure how I intended there to be more than one scenario in this one.

Book 2: You find a strange device, left by the previous owner of your home, that makes you shrink, and obviously you have to return to normal size by getting a hold the device again. You would either get shrunk at home or at school depending on what choice you made earlier. This was somewhat inspired by Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter due to the shrinking.

Book 3: You buy a Dungeons and Dragons type of board game, but it turns out to be enchanted and you either get sent to the world that the game is set in or the creatures from the game get released, and have to be sent back, depending on an earlier choice - which was determined by dice throw. Ultimately, it was Dungeons and Dragons meets Jumanji.

Book 4: You go into a room in a television store, and find a strange TV and remote and you either use the remote to (accidentally) transport you into the television world, and have to make your way through several made up TV shows to find your way back to the real world, or you leave the store with the remote (this may be done by accident - like you forced out, because you're not allowed in that room or something, but you don't realise you're still holding the remote, I never got to that part), and find that it affects the real world instead of TV ("Pause" actually pauses people, etc.) The first scenario was inspired partly by Little Comic Shop of Horrors, but with TV shows instead of comic books (some of the shows would have been parodies of real ones), and also the fact I've always liked the idea of being able to literally be in a TV show (as though it was real) anyway. The second scenario, was inspired by a Round the Twist episode, and not the Goosebumps short story Click nor the unrelated movie of the same name (though I was tempted to have one of the endings be the way the Goosebumps book ended, but I probably won't do that as it is too similar.

Book 5: There was a book which involved a female magician who, of course, was really magical, and you either stole her wand and/or book (you would have definitely took the wand) and realised they could do real magic, but you had no real idea how to use them or you wrote that she was fake on her magic box, and were then told to do some jobs at her home to apologise, but it turns out to be a magic house that you have to survive. Looking back, this one was pretty weird, as it was meant to play with morality tales in a sense as you initially bring things on yourself, but it's pretty extreme for what you did (so the magician can still be classed as a villain), as real morality tales tended to have extreme punishments, when I read/heard them. This book was actually not inspired by either of the magic themed Give Yourself Goosebumps books, to my knowledge.

Book 6: In one I never attempted to write, you love videogames, and somehow ended up being transported to one of two worlds from within the games you were playing. Kind of like Zapped in Space, but more focused on the fact that you're now in a videogame world.

Book 7: You are dropped of at a sports and activities camp, but it turns out, that you are the only human, and the camp is actually run and attended by anthropomorphised animals, and you are at risk because humans aren't liked there, but you're stuck at the camp, so you're forced to take part in either the sports or the activities while looking for ways to escape.

Book 8: Another one I don't think I attempted to write; You and your family are in Egypt and you either ended up in a pyramid or somewhere else depending on your earlier choice (maybe the museum you were looking at earlier?), and you have "your" two brothers with you at times in this book. I don't even have an actual goal for the reader yet. Not sure if Diary of a Mad Mummy played any part in the inspiration or not.

Book 9: I have more recently-ish planned on one that is a bit of departure, in that you're actually one of the bad guys in the story (the book would be a spin off of one of the other books, but I haven't come up with that actual book yet).

Book 10: Another I never tried writing, I had a vague idea about writing a CYOA where the reader's character was actually someone who reads CYOAs (which is likely to be true) and there was some self-awareness to what was happening, and somehow evidence that they are part of a CYOA in someway - like maybe you could actually see your choices written in books in the story before you made them? The Werewolf of Twisted Tree Lodge inspired this, due to the fact that it involved moments of "living the story" and was self-aware, but never outright said "I'm in a CYOA book."

Book 11: Speaking of werewolves, I did plan on doing a werewolf CYOA, because werewolves. Critical as I am towards it's choices, Night in Werewolf Woods was the Give Yourself Goosebumps book that inspired me, because I read that first, in addition to the fact that I find werewolves to be cool.

More may be announced, and I hope you didn't mind me including the ones I didn't actually attempt.