The joy of making shit up

[YANKEE DAN]

Then either do the research if you enjoy that kind of thing, or just write without much research it if you doubt she'll notice it. The weeds in Europe seems to be overkill, I think.

There seems to have been at least three movies with the Brides of Dracula title. Did one of those inspire her?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053677/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1

She loves Bram Stokers Dracula, the one with Anthony Hopkins. I'm only kidding about the research, I do enjoy it that's why I went to school for history, but it is also a lot of work.

I enjoy knowing that there are things like, real place names, real family concerns of the time, real cultural phrases and artifacts, even though the readers won't notice. I hope that the IDEA of the time feels as though it's being conveyed.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Personally, it’s that keen attention to detail that makes a good story great.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

I don’t exclusively write semi-autobiographical stories, but the majority of them have been in this category thus far. I guess it’s less problematic coming up with a story structure, even if - like I often do - you merge different real events and add in some fabricated bits in between. You at least know where the story is basically going and can focus on other things.

My last published story was entirely a work of fiction, from my POV at least (it was based on a scaffold of events, real or desired, described to me by another Lit member). So even there I had parameters.

I was whining and moaning about AH members selecting alien tentacle porn as my next genre to attempt, but I take it all back. The freedom of just making up whatever I like is kinda intoxicating. Whether a story written by someone who is drunk ends up being worth reading is another matter. But for now I’m having more fun than since I wrote my Futanari fantasy (also entirely fictional - well d’oh!)

I guess I should do this more often .

Em

The first story I wrote was an unofficial sequel with permission from the author, the new one is a sex-version of HOT FUZZ.

I don’t know if you’d class either of those as being truly from my imagination as there was a story structure there in both cases to hang my hat on, BUT, they definitely weren’t autobiographical.

Maybe they’d be classed as somewhere in between.

 

[SimonDoom]

The first story I wrote was an unofficial sequel with permission from the author, the new one is a sex-version of HOT FUZZ.

That sounds interesting. I love that movie. Shaun of the Dead could be adapted into an interesting erotic story, too.

 

[Rob_Royale]

My sexual exploits before marriage were nothing to write about and afterward, well that's none of your business.
My stories are then clearly all fictional. However, my stories all feature women that I knew and fantasized about somewhere in my past. Dropping that hot blonde from work into a fictional situation on a cruise boat is terrific fun because I'd have loved to see that plus-sized goddess in a swimsuit or less. Or writing them into a story in a similar setting that I knew them in, is totally hot. The stories and situations are made up. But the beauties that inspired me ... ? Not.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

That sounds interesting. I love that movie. Shaun of the Dead could be adapted into an interesting erotic story, too.

It’s in Group under the imaginative title “HOT AND FUZZY”.

It’s almost like it writes itself.

 

[gunhilltrain]

She loves Bram Stokers Dracula, the one with Anthony Hopkins. I'm only kidding about the research, I do enjoy it that's why I went to school for history, but it is also a lot of work.

I enjoy knowing that there are things like, real place names, real family concerns of the time, real cultural phrases and artifacts, even though the readers won't notice. I hope that the IDEA of the time feels as though it's being conveyed.

Hah. I had somebody comment to me something like "What does 198th St. and Webster Avenue look like?" I should have sent back, but I didn't, "Well look at Google street view and you'll find out." I don't knew if Google has done Romania yet, but they probably will. Even if it's not 1895 views.

Actually, Transylvania was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire then?

 

[gunhilltrain]

The first story I wrote was an unofficial sequel with permission from the author, the new one is a sex-version of HOT FUZZ.

I don’t know if you’d class either of those as being truly from my imagination as there was a story structure there in both cases to hang my hat on, BUT, they definitely weren’t autobiographical.

Maybe they’d be classed as somewhere in between.

Hott Fuzz had a lot of subtle English inside jokes. Like every older person in the town claimed to have been an extra in 1971s Straw Dogs. I think I was the only person in the theater to find that funny.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Hott Fuzz had a lot of subtle English inside jokes. Like every older person in the town claimed to have been an extra in 1971s Straw Dogs. I think I was the only person in the theater to find that funny.

I loved Shaun of the Dead, but couldn’t get what was funny about Hot Fuzz. I thought it was as i didn’t know the cop movies they were referring to, but - at least to me - it was more Anglo-centric than SOTD.

Em

 

[gunhilltrain]

My sexual exploits before marriage were nothing to write about and afterward, well that's none of your business.
My stories are then clearly all fictional. However, my stories all feature women that I knew and fantasized about somewhere in my past. Dropping that hot blonde from work into a fictional situation on a cruise boat is terrific fun because I'd have loved to see that plus-sized goddess in a swimsuit or less. Or writing them into a story in a similar setting that I knew them in, is totally hot. The stories and situations are made up. But the beauties that inspired me ... ? Not.

I think any woman I actually knew becomes a minor character at best. One exception was one of my ex-wife's friends. She was rather low-key looking however. Not that she was homely, but she'd blend into a crowd. Woman like that don't necessarily look hot but they can be hot anyway.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I loved Shaun of the Dead, but couldn’t get what was funny about Hot Fuzz. I thought it was as i didn’t know the cop movies they were referring to, but - at least to me - it was more Anglo-centric than SOTD.

Em

Oh, SOTD is Shaun of the Dead. So, The Postman Always Rings Twice would be TPART. (Pronounced Tee-Part.) But yeah, Hot Fuzz was very Anglo-centric.

 

[TheRedChamber]

I loved Shaun of the Dead, but couldn’t get what was funny about Hot Fuzz. I thought it was as i didn’t know the cop movies they were referring to, but - at least to me - it was more Anglo-centric than SOTD.

Em

Well, Hot Fuzz was all about taking those cop movie tropes and editing styles and applying them to an idyllic rural Engand setting. You really need knowledge of both to make it work. For me it was one of those movies that started off only mildy amusing and then built and built till the last half-an-hour or so was one of the funniest things I've seen in decades. On the other hand Shaun of the Dead didn't land quite so well with me, maybe because I'm less into and familiar with zombie movies.

 

[YANKEE DAN]

Hah. I had somebody comment to me something like "What does 198th St. and Webster Avenue look like?" I should have sent back, but I didn't, "Well look at Google street view and you'll find out." I don't knew if Google has done Romania yet, but they probably will. Even if it's not 1895 views.

Actually, Transylvania was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire then?

Yes. I'm actually setting the story north of Bucharest. I decided to make it a sequel to Dracula, where a 4th, unknown bride has wandered the countryside alone following the events of the novel, I'm calling it "The Widow"

I used the Google maps trick myself recently to see what streets really look like in Southern Mexico.

 

[ouchfeelsgood]

Mine was a bit wild TBH .

Em

After reading "Because I Deserve It - Redux", I can certainly believe it!

 

[nice90sguy]

I used the Google maps trick myself recently to see what streets really look like in Southern Mexico.

Ah, so it's not just me that does that.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

Well, Hot Fuzz was all about taking those cop movie tropes and editing styles and applying them to an idyllic rural Engand setting. You really need knowledge of both to make it work. For me it was one of those movies that started off only mildy amusing and then built and built till the last half-an-hour or so was one of the funniest things I've seen in decades. On the other hand Shaun of the Dead didn't land quite so well with me, maybe because I'm less into and familiar with zombie movies.

Thankfully with me being from “round here” not only do I get the humour but understand the broader strokes as well that may not land for an overseas audience.

However I have not yet visited Wells in Somerset were it was filmed but I’m hoping to do that this year.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Yes. I'm actually setting the story north of Bucharest. I decided to make it a sequel to Dracula, where a 4th, unknown bride has wandered the countryside alone following the events of the novel, I'm calling it "The Widow"

I used the Google maps trick myself recently to see what streets really look like in Southern Mexico.

I wonder how ambitious Google intends to be in the long run. Southern Mexico is pretty ambitious. In this country, they may not street-view every back road in the Jersey Pinelands, much less Montana. So far I haven't researched exactly where their limits are at this point.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Ah, so it's not just me that does that.

Yeah, it's pretty amazing how much they show. I've seen a Google van with all of those cameras on the roof. I have no idea how they stitch together the huge number of images they collect.

In the old days, you had to send out photographers who painstakingly did it building by building.

https://1940s.nyc/map/photo/nynyma_rec0040_2_02868_0111#13.69/40.84973/-73.90861

 

[EmilyMiller]

After reading "Because I Deserve It - Redux", I can certainly believe it!

I’ll take that as a compliment, hun .

Em

 

[Duleigh]

Personally, it’s that keen attention to detail that makes a good story great.

As my stories grow with multiple chapters and side stories I'm finding that most of my time is spent searching through earlier chapters for little details that those readers will point out should I miss one slight detail.

I loved Shaun of the Dead, but couldn’t get what was funny about Hot Fuzz. I thought it was as i didn’t know the cop movies they were referring to, but - at least to me - it was more Anglo-centric than SOTD.

I have never been to England but through forums like Literotica I've vicariously spent a lot of my life there and found Hot Fuzz was a hilarious look at small village life in rural England. I'm still angry with the USAF for not sending me there!

 

[SimonDoom]

As my stories grow with multiple chapters and side stories I'm finding that most of my time is spent searching through earlier chapters for little details that those readers will point out should I miss one slight detail.

I have never been to England but through forums like Literotica I've vicariously spent a lot of my life there and found Hot Fuzz was a hilarious look at small village life in rural England. I'm still angry with the USAF for not sending me there!

I've been to England, though it was a while ago and I'm certainly no expert on village culture there. But I've watched tons of buddy cop movies and zombie movies and I thought HF and SOTD, respectively, were great send-ups of both genres. Plus, I just like Simon Pegg. I think he's always funny and watchable. I like him in the Mission Impossible and Star Trek movies too.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

I've been to England, though it was a while ago and I'm certainly no expert on village culture there. But I've watched tons of buddy cop movies and zombie movies and I thought HF and SOTD, respectively, were great send-ups of both genres. Plus, I just like Simon Pegg. I think he's always funny and watchable. I like him in the Mission Impossible and Star Trek movies too.

Yeah, I nearly worked with Pegg about 20 years ago but it didn’t work out.

In terms of HF and SOTD they capture two aspects of English life, the city living and country aesthetic, although I have yet to visit Wells, Somerset where HF was filmed. I’m gonna try and get there this year (interesting side note: The hotel is called The Black Swan…just the one swan actually).

 

[Duleigh]

I've been to England, though it was a while ago and I'm certainly no expert on village culture there.

I trained exclusively on F-111D/E/F aircraft and there was only 2 places on earth where they were, England and New Mexico. I knew that plane inside and out and was ready to head off to either place and where does Uncle Sam send me? North Dakota to work on B-52s. They're not even the same color!

I never got to England, the closest I got to England was drinking a few beers at Joe Sheridan's in Shannon Ireland and a couple of dates with a girl in the RAF while stationed in Turkey.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I've been to England, though it was a while ago and I'm certainly no expert on village culture there. But I've watched tons of buddy cop movies and zombie movies and I thought HF and SOTD, respectively, were great send-ups of both genres. Plus, I just like Simon Pegg. I think he's always funny and watchable. I like him in the Mission Impossible and Star Trek movies too.

See, I knew the zombie flicks, not the buddy cop flicks. Also I know London (a bit at least) and not really rural England. So SOTD is more my cup of Earl Grey (note culturally sensitive spelling!).

Em

Em

 

[SimonDoom]

See, I knew the zombie flicks, not the buddy cop flicks. Also I know London (a bit at least) and not really rural England. So SOTD is more my cup of Earl Grey (note culturally sensitive spelling!).

Em

Em

I'm more of a coffee person, and given my tea preference I'd select Darjeeling, but you can't go wrong with a nice cup of Earl Grey. It's such a nicely balanced flavor.