FutureFiction
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I started this thread to have a discussion about idealism and the future of storytelling.
Perfection (within the realm of art and fiction) is mostly perception. It’s something that’s in the mind of the reader. My idea of the perfect Literotica story is something that doesn’t exist in this world. It’s something that could be described as a theoretical possibility in the future, or it could be something from another reality where interactive fiction is more prevalent, and Chyoo 5.0 (not 3.0) is up and running in 2017 with more active readers and writers than the main site.
Some writers strive for perfection by trying to be original and unpredictable, or by thinking about things like their fan base, logical consistency, or scientific and historical accuracy. Writers can strive for perfection, but I think it’s impossible for a story to be perfect (especially erotic stories) if it’s not at least partially interactive or modifiable.
I have a habit of using my imagination to reject and modify some of things that I see and hear when I’m watching a movie, reading a novel, or listing to music. I have a list of rules and expectations in my mind for the stories that I read and watch. I use my imagination to change what I’m seeing and hearing if the plot of a story makes a small deviation from what I want to see. But the imaginary changes don’t work if there are too many deviations from what I would prefer to see and hear.
On a website like Literotica that could mean changing the words that a writer used to describe the physical appearance of a character. I have a long list of ideal bodily shapes, sizes, and colors for different characters and situations. So depending on the story it could mean changing the words big to small, short to tall, pale to tanned, brunette to blond, or the opposite. The imaginary changes work as long as I don’t keep seeing the opposite of what I want to see in every paragraph.
I’m limited to my imagination in 2017, but every time I see a work of fiction, I dream about a future where artificial intelligence and other technologies will make most of the work of human writers obsolete, and all forms of entertainment or storytelling will be interactive and completely customizable to suit the individual viewer or user. So for futuristic and non-existent websites like Chyoo 7.0, humans would create the templates or the foundations of different stories, while improved forms of AI (narrow or maybe general) would modify and expand to the storylines in different ways that are ideal for the readers.
I think the changes that I described would definitely be an improvement over the current way of doing things, where you basically have to hope that a writer thinks the way you think, and likes the things you like. It may be common to find a writer that shares some of your sexual desires, but out of all of the stories that I read on Literotica, there are few where the characters and the plots are close to one of my ideal fantasies. There are several stories that I like, but it’s the little things that can ruin or change a great story (4.5 or higher) to a moderately enjoyable story. For me, it could be as simple as something like a protagonist that regularly sleeps in the nude. I’m a bit of a germaphobe. So the scenario makes me think about the trace amounts of fecal matter on the bed sheets, which ruins my immersive connection to the protagonist.
As a heterosexual male with an interest in virtual reality and immersive stories, the first thing that I search for before I decide to read a story is the author’s sexual orientation, (I prefer stories that are written by straight males), story tags that match the scenarios and physical appearances that I like, and if the story is told from a 1st person point of view. I don’t have any voyeuristic or transsexual male to female fantasies, therefore I would prefer if all of the erotic stories that I read are told from a male 1st person POV. I don’t like non 1st person narration in erotic fiction. And I don’t want to know exactly what’s going on in the mind of a female unless it’s a Sci-Fi scenario that involves futuristic technologies like brain to computer and brain to brain interfaces. When I’m reading an erotic story I want to become one with a male protagonist. I don’t think about the fact that the author is male. (I would prefer a female voice if a story was read to me) I just think about being one with the protagonist.
The other things that I look for when I’m choosing the stories that I want to read are a combination of things like statistical improbabilities, realistic or plausible scenarios, and authors that don’t expect their readers to suspend their disbelief. I hate fantasy, but I love science fiction. I want to feel like I could actually be experiencing the things in the stories that I read and watch. People regularly complain about unrealistic beauty or the unrealistic size of breasts or penises in stories, but it’s not always unrealistic if you think about large sample sizes or the law of large numbers.
Writing a story that takes place in a small town of less than 1000 people where all of the characters that engage in sexual activity have huge breasts and huge penises could be described as unrealistic. But it’s probably not unrealistic if you increase the sample size to a metropolis of over 5 million people. Especially if it’s a city with a lot of genetic diversity.
I enjoy stories about statistical improbabilities having sex with other statistical improbabilities. There’s nothing unrealistic about it if you take a moment to think about the numbers and the plausibility of the scenarios. I like fictional characters that possess unusual objective measures of beauty like symmetry and healthy skin. I usually have no desire to watch or think about average looking people in the fictional worlds of porn or erotic fiction.
So what’s your idea of the perfect erotic story? And what do you think is the future of storytelling?
Perfection (within the realm of art and fiction) is mostly perception. It’s something that’s in the mind of the reader. My idea of the perfect Literotica story is something that doesn’t exist in this world. It’s something that could be described as a theoretical possibility in the future, or it could be something from another reality where interactive fiction is more prevalent, and Chyoo 5.0 (not 3.0) is up and running in 2017 with more active readers and writers than the main site.
Some writers strive for perfection by trying to be original and unpredictable, or by thinking about things like their fan base, logical consistency, or scientific and historical accuracy. Writers can strive for perfection, but I think it’s impossible for a story to be perfect (especially erotic stories) if it’s not at least partially interactive or modifiable.
I have a habit of using my imagination to reject and modify some of things that I see and hear when I’m watching a movie, reading a novel, or listing to music. I have a list of rules and expectations in my mind for the stories that I read and watch. I use my imagination to change what I’m seeing and hearing if the plot of a story makes a small deviation from what I want to see. But the imaginary changes don’t work if there are too many deviations from what I would prefer to see and hear.
On a website like Literotica that could mean changing the words that a writer used to describe the physical appearance of a character. I have a long list of ideal bodily shapes, sizes, and colors for different characters and situations. So depending on the story it could mean changing the words big to small, short to tall, pale to tanned, brunette to blond, or the opposite. The imaginary changes work as long as I don’t keep seeing the opposite of what I want to see in every paragraph.
I’m limited to my imagination in 2017, but every time I see a work of fiction, I dream about a future where artificial intelligence and other technologies will make most of the work of human writers obsolete, and all forms of entertainment or storytelling will be interactive and completely customizable to suit the individual viewer or user. So for futuristic and non-existent websites like Chyoo 7.0, humans would create the templates or the foundations of different stories, while improved forms of AI (narrow or maybe general) would modify and expand to the storylines in different ways that are ideal for the readers.
I think the changes that I described would definitely be an improvement over the current way of doing things, where you basically have to hope that a writer thinks the way you think, and likes the things you like. It may be common to find a writer that shares some of your sexual desires, but out of all of the stories that I read on Literotica, there are few where the characters and the plots are close to one of my ideal fantasies. There are several stories that I like, but it’s the little things that can ruin or change a great story (4.5 or higher) to a moderately enjoyable story. For me, it could be as simple as something like a protagonist that regularly sleeps in the nude. I’m a bit of a germaphobe. So the scenario makes me think about the trace amounts of fecal matter on the bed sheets, which ruins my immersive connection to the protagonist.
As a heterosexual male with an interest in virtual reality and immersive stories, the first thing that I search for before I decide to read a story is the author’s sexual orientation, (I prefer stories that are written by straight males), story tags that match the scenarios and physical appearances that I like, and if the story is told from a 1st person point of view. I don’t have any voyeuristic or transsexual male to female fantasies, therefore I would prefer if all of the erotic stories that I read are told from a male 1st person POV. I don’t like non 1st person narration in erotic fiction. And I don’t want to know exactly what’s going on in the mind of a female unless it’s a Sci-Fi scenario that involves futuristic technologies like brain to computer and brain to brain interfaces. When I’m reading an erotic story I want to become one with a male protagonist. I don’t think about the fact that the author is male. (I would prefer a female voice if a story was read to me) I just think about being one with the protagonist.
The other things that I look for when I’m choosing the stories that I want to read are a combination of things like statistical improbabilities, realistic or plausible scenarios, and authors that don’t expect their readers to suspend their disbelief. I hate fantasy, but I love science fiction. I want to feel like I could actually be experiencing the things in the stories that I read and watch. People regularly complain about unrealistic beauty or the unrealistic size of breasts or penises in stories, but it’s not always unrealistic if you think about large sample sizes or the law of large numbers.
Writing a story that takes place in a small town of less than 1000 people where all of the characters that engage in sexual activity have huge breasts and huge penises could be described as unrealistic. But it’s probably not unrealistic if you increase the sample size to a metropolis of over 5 million people. Especially if it’s a city with a lot of genetic diversity.
I enjoy stories about statistical improbabilities having sex with other statistical improbabilities. There’s nothing unrealistic about it if you take a moment to think about the numbers and the plausibility of the scenarios. I like fictional characters that possess unusual objective measures of beauty like symmetry and healthy skin. I usually have no desire to watch or think about average looking people in the fictional worlds of porn or erotic fiction.
So what’s your idea of the perfect erotic story? And what do you think is the future of storytelling?