work place "hook-ups"

[jeninflorida]

Okay, jumping back into the work place stories...are these best (from the readers pov) from the male or female POV? Also do these read best from the boss or worker pov?

Thoughts?

[MatthewVett]

Originally Posted by jeninflorida

Okay, jumping back into the work place stories...are these best (from the readers pov) from the male or female POV? Also do these read best from the boss or worker pov?

Thoughts?

I think I'd prefer for the worker's POV. If it's from the boss's, it can come off as predatory due to the power disparity. Of course, if you like predatory...

[Tigerdrew73]

The other thing to do is write it as a paired set of stories. One from each POV.

[Euphony]

Originally Posted by jeninflorida

Okay, jumping back into the work place stories...are these best (from the readers pov) from the male or female POV? Also do these read best from the boss or worker pov?

Thoughts?

You have an equivalency.

Both are equally valid. Which is "correct" is simply decided on how you want to tell the tale.

Whomever you want to be "in the dark" so to speak, is not your POV. So if you want her to struggle with "Is this just sex?" POV her.

If you want him to be on a psychological roller coaster re: is she going to turn him in and why can't he stop fucking this woman even though the risks are getting greater and greater by the day. POV him.

Both can be done but its oftentimes done poorly. Third person works too but I have a sense you want the emotional punch of being one of them.

As for the readers, they just want you to tell them a good story. If its from her or him they aren't going to hassle you so long as you wrote it well. (so write whichever one fits or you can do "best")

[sirhugs]

Mine tend to be written from the Boss POV, but as a reader I like variety. Wouldn't say either is necessarily "best".

[DRS_EROS]

Originally Posted by jeninflorida

Okay, jumping back into the work place stories...are these best (from the readers pov) from the male or female POV? Also do these read best from the boss or worker pov?

Thoughts?

It would depend of the story content most of all, would it not ?

[DRS_EROS]

Originally Posted by DRS_EROS

It would depend of the story content most of all, would it not ?

sorry, "on" the story content.

[sassysasha89]

Originally Posted by Euphony

You have an equivalency.

Both are equally valid. Which is "correct" is simply decided on how you want to tell the tale.

Whomever you want to be "in the dark" so to speak, is not your POV. So if you want her to struggle with "Is this just sex?" POV her.

If you want him to be on a psychological roller coaster re: is she going to turn him in and why can't he stop fucking this woman even though the risks are getting greater and greater by the day. POV him.

Both can be done but its oftentimes done poorly. Third person works too but I have a sense you want the emotional punch of being one of them.

As for the readers, they just want you to tell them a good story. If its from her or him they aren't going to hassle you so long as you wrote it well. (so write whichever one fits or you can do "best")

One that I often don't see is someone blackmailing boss or someone with authority being threatened by one of his/her subordinates. Soon the blackmail material is just a precaution because they are coming on their own.

Her - she seems to be on top of things and has the command of her employees but one male employees finds the power to make her yield and behind the scenes has her helpless to resist him. Some time afterwards, she maintains the look which is more like a facade now while the male employee reduces her to a horny panting bitch in heat.

Him - a powerful man, who wisely resists and reports the advances of a female in favor of his job and/or marriage at first, gets a upped by a female employee who wants his favor, money, etc. Soon he can't get enough of her.

[jeninflorida]

Originally Posted by sassysasha89

One that I often don't see is someone blackmailing boss or someone with authority being threatened by one of his/her subordinates. Soon the blackmail material is just a precaution because they are coming on their own.

Her - she seems to be on top of things and has the command of her employees but one male employees finds the power to make her yield and behind the scenes has her helpless to resist him. Some time afterwards, she maintains the look which is more like a facade now while the male employee reduces her to a horny panting bitch in heat.

Him - a powerful man, who wisely resists and reports the advances of a female in favor of his job and/or marriage at first, gets a upped by a female employee who wants his favor, money, etc. Soon he can't get enough of her.

I think blackmail can be a unique angle...example a CEO who has a reputation for being dominating yet has a Dommie .... so he's worried about his submissive side being exposed. and also, the fact that the CEO enjoys being taken by a stap-on...

now, what is the goal with blackmailing him....

[soflabbwlvr]

Originally Posted by jeninflorida

Okay, jumping back into the work place stories...are these best (from the readers pov) from the male or female POV? Also do these read best from the boss or worker pov?

Thoughts?

Work place stories is one of my favorite sub-genres. It doesn't matter to me if the story is told from the male or female point of view, or whether it is the boss or subordinate telling the story. The most important factor for me, as a reader, is that you tell a credible story with well-developed characters. Write to your strengths--are you better at telling a story from the male or female POV? Do you do well with Noncon/reluctance, or are you looking at more of a romantic angle? With whom do you want the reader to sympathize? The answers to those questions should inform your decisions to a greater extent than reader expectations.