Falling into your own story.....

Carnevil9

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How about a Lit author is writing a particularly convoluted tale. It could be a mystery, a romance, or just a saucy sex romp, but either way, it is a sticky situation for the characters. And then, by some magical means or other, he (the author himself) finds himself sucked into the actual story! Maybe he has become one of his own characters, or maybe he is still himself, as a new character in the story. He is no longer writing it now, of course, but he is stuck with the characters, settings, and conflicts that he himself had set up, and must deal with them, for good or for evil.

Okay, this idea isn't even half-baked yet, it's not even in the oven. But it is wide open for possibilities. What do you think could happen? What kind of stories, characters, conflicts, and resolutions would lend themselves to this treatment?
 
Since it is not in the oven yet, adding a little magic yeast might help it rise :D
 
The 1991 John Candy comedy Delirious is actually about a man who wakes up in the soap opera he has written.

I never heard of a porn/erotica version of that concept. But now that I have all I can think is "Damn, I wish that had been mine."
 
I see two avenues of going about this. You can play it straight by having the writer fall into erotica enriched by bigger themes or stronger characterization. In other words, something with more effort than your average one-page Lit stroker.

Oh, he/she could instead be more of a stroker writer. Their characters and situations either reflect straight up no-consequence fucking, or the erotic world is a silly parody of less favored erotic tropes. Tits with insane waistline measurements, monster cocks, "gallons of semen."

As LeandraNyx said, there are endless possibilities. Right now I'm picturing an Incest story writer. He's having an otherwise quiet breakfast in the dining room with the fuck orgy family he created. It's the only calm moment during their daily routine. Cereal, oat meal, protein bars and orange juice are a balanced part of a fuck orgy family's breakfast.
 
Love the movie "delirious"

Yeah, really depends on what tone you want it to have.

1. Ironic punishment. Writer takes advantage of the knowledge they have and winds up having lots of sex and adventure...but it all feels hollow. No matter how good of a writer they are, they can't capture what it means to be a real person so the characters can't really connect with them and the world feels unsatisfying.

2. Horror. Writer specializes in horror and non-con. Now they have to get through their own creations. Bonus points if the characters from their stories are manipulating things to get payback.

3. Humor. Writer was a stroke story writer so all of their stories are short one-offs. This gets shown as them getting tossed from one situation to another each time they have sex. For extra fun, half-finished ideas get included to so they end up in patchwork stories ("boss calls secretary into office to spy on a mother and son double teaming his dickgirl stepsister while a tentacle monster who is also a cheerleader finds a unicorn to screw"). They have to find a way out or take control of the situation before they run out of ideas.

4. Pure wish fulfillment. Nothing substantial author can now freely manipulate this new reality and begins escapades of increasing ludicrousness.
 
The 1991 John Candy comedy Delirious is actually about a man who wakes up in the soap opera he has written.

I never heard of a porn/erotica version of that concept. But now that I have all I can think is "Damn, I wish that had been mine."

Ralph Bakshi's "Cool World" is what inspired this idea for me.
 
How about a Lit author is writing a particularly convoluted tale. It could be a mystery, a romance, or just a saucy sex romp, but either way, it is a sticky situation for the characters. And then, by some magical means or other, he (the author himself) finds himself sucked into the actual story! Maybe he has become one of his own characters, or maybe he is still himself, as a new character in the story. He is no longer writing it now, of course, but he is stuck with the characters, settings, and conflicts that he himself had set up, and must deal with them, for good or for evil.

Okay, this idea isn't even half-baked yet, it's not even in the oven. But it is wide open for possibilities. What do you think could happen? What kind of stories, characters, conflicts, and resolutions would lend themselves to this treatment?

I wrote a few stories like that - my latest (pending) is yet another. Not really that wacky if you're an avid sci fi reader - best done by Philip K Dick
 
Sounds like a pr0nish subset of the whatever-I-write-actually-happens trope. Doom usually ensues there. This falling-into-the-story variant implies lack of authorial control and thus a chance of redemption. As long as I can't direct my fantasy, I'm not really responsible, am I?
 
Sounds like a pr0nish subset of the whatever-I-write-actually-happens trope. Doom usually ensues there. This falling-into-the-story variant implies lack of authorial control and thus a chance of redemption. As long as I can't direct my fantasy, I'm not really responsible, am I?

maybe it is about the struggle for control and leads to redemption?
 
Here's an idea that doesn't need magic or science fiction. If anyone likes it, feel free to use any part or all of it.

Steve, an author of some very highly rated erotic stories on Lit, is commissioned to write a ten page stroke story based on a topic he’s never written about before, Blackmailed by a Tranny.

Normally, Steve writes only what he is turned on by, which is big breasted, highly sexed women and the men they fuck. But when he is offered a nice sum to write a very detailed story about a Tranny named Lucille who blackmails a straight man into all kinds of kinky, tranny and gay sex, he can’t turn it down.

The anonymous person who commissioned the story gives Steve certain parameters and directions, but allows Steve a lot of leeway with the story.

When the story is finished, Steve is expecting his payment, but instead the customer sends him a file from the company Steve has been embezzling funds from, and tells Steve that if he wants to stay out of prison, he’ll do everything he is told.

Steve is given an address and told to show up in two hours. When Steve gets there, he is greeted by a sexy woman named, Lucille, who just so happens to be the tranny that Steve has been writing about. Lucille has all ten pages of Steve’s story and uses that as a guide to turn Steve into her cum receptacle.
 
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