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CYOA STORIES

Can You Survive the Ukraine War?
Your task is to lead a Disaster Relief Team to assist the refugees streaming across the Ukrainian border into Moldova. Make life and death decisions as you guide your team into ever more perilous situations.
Explore the future! Directed Fiction is the only writing technique that uses the Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) format to immerse the reader in a developing real-world situation.
This proof-of-concept eBook offers a powerful new foresight tool to explore the future. When you complete the task, you will be given a detailed explanation of the process of the technique that you can use for yourself to apply to any situation.
Directed Fiction Research
Merritt, T. (2022). Directed Fiction: Using fiction as a foresight method to compare competing narratives in political discourse. Regent 2022 Research Rountable, Merritt_Directed Fiction Presentation.docx - pCloud
Merritt, T. (2022). Directed Fiction: Scanning the future with scenario trends. ResearchGate, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31029.76008
Merritt, T. (2022). Alternative Futures: The use of fiction to explore competing visions. ResearchGate, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.21485.26080
Merritt, T. (2022). Imagining the future: The rapid classification of fiction archetypes. ResearchGate, http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.12922.82884