ChloeTzang
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Has anyone ever converted one of their stories from Erotic to non-erotic?
I've done it with a few stories except I wrote the story and then added the sex in because....Literotica. I've actually been thinking of bowdlerizing the sex and expanding them and turning them into rather more mainstream novels to publish, which would be totally doable.
As for stripping the sex out, I did that years ago when I was doing writing classes - I took excerpts and used them and it went pretty well. I didn't do the entire story, and all I did was extract snippets that had no sex in them and use them for my writing exercises. That was actually how Welcome to Nockatung Station came about - it started in a writing class where we had to come up with a story idea and then write 2k words in class - and that was actually the kickoff fr the actual story, where the sex got added way later.
Sounds like it might be a lot of work to do that for your story tho - might be better just writing a new one without the sex and then just add it in later. Good luck - and don't let them know your Lit pseudonym and keep the titles completely different LOL or they might start looking sideways at you
(I haven't even told my wife yet)
Don't tell her at all unless you are 100% positive she would be comfortable with what you are writing. Ditto with your co-worker. These days, it is so easy to track stuff down on the internet, and you might find yourself outted before you can blink. NOT good, esp for things like writing incest. Keep your anonymity on Lit at all costs. If you want to write fiction without the explicit stuff and you're happy about people knowing that, then create a totally distinct persona and keep the two 100% seperate. Don't get carried away by the excitement of writing - it's a temptation to share, for sure, but sharing you are writing erotica with the wrong people can lead to all sorts of negative shit, depending on your job, family, friends, etc. Better just to keep it to yourself, and if you share with your co-worker, you'll end up having to bullshit them and it just gets more and more complex. Better to just let it drop - tell them it was shit and you gave up and threw it away or something than get involved in that sort of complexity where eventually you WILL get caught out.
For me, aside from my husband, who loves all my stories and got me to start writing on literotica in the 1st place. nobody I know in real life has any idea I write erotica at all and I keep it that way. In my writing classes, I was a wannabe sci-fi writer LOL.
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