Write Your Own Story

Write Your Own Story, abbreviated WYOS, is a collaborative narrative game previously hosted in Off-Topic and the forefather to DRAW Your Own Story. The first self-titled WYOS was created by Judge_Deadd in 2003, but the idea can be traced as early as 2001 to a thread by willemvanoranje named "Let's write a story II". WYOS never gained the same level of popularity as its offspring, with the most successful threads reaching 75 posts and many threads failing to grow beyond a single page.

In March 2014, WYOS was revived by Omega124 and KaiserElectric, erstwhile DYOS participants known for verbose roleplay in Imperium Offtopicum, who were more comfortable writing than drawing. A second thread was spearheaded by gay_Aleks in 2016, set in the Fallout universe. Unlike previous threads where posts were only 2–3 sentences maximum, the latest installments encourage chapter-length entries and independent plotlines.

Timeline

Pre-WYOS

• Let's write a story II — May–August 2001
• Let's write an other story — June 2001
• Let's Write a Story I — March '02–January '03

WYOS

• Write-your-own-story — June 2003
• Write Your Own Story 3 — June 2003
• Let's Write a Story — August 2003
• Write your own story... reborn! — March 2004
• Write-your-own-story (H&J) — April 2004

Revival

• The Sun Also Rises for Writers — March '14–October '15
• A Prairie Apocalypse — October–December 2016