1] Strike 3 may be when I don't take good advice given to me, but since many here don't take the good advice I give them & none of them have ever given me any good advice, it won't happen here.
Let me also add a few more pieces:
1] Why do I take medications for diabetes even though I know I'm not diabetic? I believe it's popularly referred to as "playing along". it's basically the same thing Lebron James does anywhere in the world when someone tells him how great he is & he knows they're full of it (why he didn't win the MVP award recently given out by the players' association). It's insulin & not heroin/crack/something like that, so I can't be arrested when I take a shot in a McDonald's, & I'm unaware of any side effects.
2] For any of you who may have ever been involved in any version of CHYOO/CHYOA, or have simply read the posts by "Saint" on the topic, let me point out a few...
A] http://forum.chyoa.com/threads/researching-stories.264/page-2#post-3105 = Is Saint admitting he was still attempting to "find himself as a writer, & most of the story got "fleshed out" by other writers (including me, though he of course refuses to admit that).
B] http://forum.chyoa.com/threads/how-did-you-all-find-this-place.292/#post-3106 = Perhaps even better. Says his joining had mostly to do with laziness/not wanting to do work, & nothing to do with writing any part of anything (also that he simply wanted to try his hand & the rest is history).
C] http://chyoa.com/story/a-bird-in-the-hand/thread/visit-the-lady-in-her-current-chambers = Thread approved in last 24 hours by someone who adopted that story... Written by me a-year-&-five-months ago (added to both CHYOO & CHYOA a few times since then).