What is author guidance and how does it work?
When reading works on Protagonize, you may notice a link entitled “Click to view author guidance” to the right of the chapter you’re reading. Author guidance allows the original work’s author to describe their plot outline, setting, characters, narrative mode, intended length, inspiration, or any other notes they’d like to add about their work. The entry area is free-form, and entirely optional. The purpose of author guidance is to allow the author to communicate some guidelines about how they’d like other participants to follow up on what they’ve started. The original work’s author can update the author guidance block at any time after their work has been posted, so that they can follow up on further posts with notes or changes to the way they see the narrative going. One thing to keep in mind is that author guidance may contain spoilers for the story you’re reading, so unless you’re planning on contributing a new chapter or branch to it, you may not want to read it right away.
