I believe you would have to do html markup within your text to create the links. It sounds harder than it is.
Formatting links for a Choose Your Own Adventure style game?
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Be careful. It's best to close all HTML tags for valid markup and to prevent nasty gotchas. As well, be consistent in your HTML tag structure. If you start with CAPS (A HREF="#"></A>) then continue the entire document in CAPS.
Additionally, prior to HTML 5, semantics followers would be aghast at you wrapping a href tags around paragraph tags. But it's accepted now.
So, George did the hard work, but I'll be the annoying editor:
Your book idea sounds pretty cool. It's a lot of work, but I can see readers really enjoying your effort. I recently thought of writing a similar game and let authors fill in their questions/answers themselves. Best of luck to you! 
Additionally, prior to HTML 5, semantics followers would be aghast at you wrapping a href tags around paragraph tags. But it's accepted now.
So, George did the hard work, but I'll be the annoying editor:
Code:
<p>1. You're in a forest. Do you A) <a href="#4">Go north</a> B) <a href="#453">Fight the three-eyed tentacle monster of doom</a> or C) <a href="#23">Go back to sleep</a></p>
<p><a id="4">4. You're north of a forest, blah blah blah...</a></p>
<p><a id="23">23. You're asleep. Zzzzzzzz.....</a></p>
<p><a id="453">453. The three-eyed tentacle monster blah blah blah...</a></p>SB: Thanks. There's certainly a lot to consider, and something like this definitely needs a lot of extra time on proofing (a broken link, for example, could ruin the whole thing). I think I can get round the double page problem by ensuring that related sections are kept apart; so you don't get a set of choices and immediately see that one option can kill you, say.
Tracy: Nothing wrong with being an annoying editor- I could have done with more of them! It certainly is a lot of work in terms of keeping options/ links consistent (not to mention the difficulty in introducing elements when the reader can take different paths), but I find that writing text in sections is actually far quicker. And if you do decide to have a go at something like this, I'll be happy to share my experiences
Tracy: Nothing wrong with being an annoying editor- I could have done with more of them! It certainly is a lot of work in terms of keeping options/ links consistent (not to mention the difficulty in introducing elements when the reader can take different paths), but I find that writing text in sections is actually far quicker. And if you do decide to have a go at something like this, I'll be happy to share my experiences
Sorry. Everything I know about HTML - true story - I learned by reading the first edition of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to HTML" for a job I had...Tracy Leach said:
...in 1996.
And I've probably forgotten 80% of what I knew, back then. In retrospect, I probably shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a text editor, anymore.
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