For our choose your own adventure story project I read Mystery at Loch Ness, by Roy Wandelmaier.  The story starts off with you on a vacation in Scotland with your cousin Derek.  You and your cousin are quietly watching television at home when all of a sudden a breaking news report comes on about a missing person, Dr. Gregory, a scientist tracking the Loch Ness Monster has vanished without a trace from her campsite and must be found.  "'Loch Ness is only four miles from here,' says Derek, sipping his hot chocolate.  'I bet we could find Dr. Gregory.'"  With those fateful words you and Derek set out in the night on a trecherous rescue mission to find the good doctor, little do you know of the magical and potentially fatal journey you are about to embark on.

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 When approaching my Choose Your Own Adventure book, By Balloon to the Sahara, I imagined the story world as a series of roads leading to a finite number of destinations: Each decision at a fork eliminates some of the possible endings, moving the story forward in time until the reader reaches a single ending. Theoretically, if this were the case, the first decision - "If you land the balloon, turn to page 2. If you ride out the storm, turn to page 3." - would divide the number of possible endings in half, and the stories branching out from page 2 would intersect rarely, if at all, with the stories from page 3. In fact, in my image, the options branching out from page 2 and from page 3 are represented in different colors (which was, of course, carefully planned, and not just a convenient default of the software I used). 

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