Newbie has story category questions

[zeitgeist_the_clown]

Okay, I'm sure that this is asked all the time, but . . . I'm asking again.

What do you do when you are writing a story that has elements from multiple story categories? Where on earth do you file it?

Is there a heirarchy to these things? Let's say that my story involves the following scenario (and it doesn't, this is just an off-the-top-of-my-head example): A guy crossdresses in his virgin sister's clothing. She catches him in the act, and makes fun of him for it. He gets pissed off and rapes her. Halfway into the act, she starts to enjoy it, and goes from, "No, stop, how could you" to "Oh, God, yes, don't stop fucking me" (yeah, I know, but this is a stroke story, not reality). Afterwards, she asks him to fuck her again, and since he's still pissed at her for making fun of him, he buttfucks her.

Where the Hell would this story go? I could make the argument for putting it in Transsexuals & Crossdressers, Incest/Taboo, NonConsent/Reluctance, First Time, or Anal.

Do any of these categories 'trump' the others? For example, is a sex story between siblings an Incest story unless it deals with rape, in which case the NonConsent ranks higher on the heirarchy of categories than Incest? (Or vice-versa -- rape is NonConsent unless it's family members, in which case it's Incest because the family tie aspect is stronger than the rape aspect?)

Or is there no system at all, and it's just close your eyes and pick a category out of a hat?

Let me know.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

For the most part, if it has any incest in it, it's going to get put in the incest category.

For other categories, it's best to put it in the one with the strongest element. Otherwise, stories containing multiple situations are best put in Novels & Novellas (if long enough).

 

[R. Richard]

What Crimson Maiden said about Incest.

Avoid Loving Wives like the plague, unless you like to defuse live bombs for recreation.

 

[slyc_willie]

For the most part, if it has any incest in it, it's going to get put in the incest category.

For other categories, it's best to put it in the one with the strongest element. Otherwise, stories containing multiple situations are best put in Novels & Novellas (if long enough).

Fetish sometimes trumps Incest.

But Incest and Non-Con have the most trumps.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

What Crimson Maiden said about Incest.

Avoid Loving Wives like the plague, unless you like to defuse live bombs for recreation.

Why defuse anything, I love watching things explode.


This will probably wined up on some NSA computer due to some key words in a single sentence.

 

[TE999]

Why defuse anything, I love watching things explode.


This will probably wined up on some NSA computer due to some key words in a single sentence.

This is NSA Computer 269, Mr. Carter. Please accompany me to cyber headquarters for cyber interrogation. You are under cyber suspicion of anarchy and mopery with intent to gawk. You are allowed one e-mail. Anything you type will be held against your hard drive in a court of cyber law.

 

[Leto Degeneres]

That was pretty funny, Zeb!

I was wondering this myself. I'm looking at erotic couplings, lesbian sex, or non-consent. I think I'll follow CrimsonMaiden's suggestion for a novella. I kind of thought it'd be long enough for that, anyway. I'll just make SURE it's long enough, and besides, it's not a jerk piece, and if one person reads it I'll be pleased as punch.

 

[Weird Harold]

Is there a heirarchy to these things?

Sort of. I call it the "Rule of Least Squick" -- put your story in the category that fits the element of your story that will offend the most people if they are surprised by it. Add content warnings for any lesse "squick factors."

But like most other questions in this forum, it depends on the story. If you have, a mind control/incest/rape story that focusses primarily on the long-term incestuous relationship that begins with a rape and is maintained paranormal powers, it is an incest story that needs an author's note warning about the rape at the beginning.

If the same general plotline focusses on the mind-control/paranormal powers, then it is a mind-control story that requires an author's note warning of the rape scene.

Take the same rape/mind-control/incest story and concentrate your descriptions on the romantic elements, and it becomes a romance story that needs an author's comment warning of the rape and incest elements.

The only place such a story would not requires an author's note warning of the rape scene would be in th enonconsent/reluctant category, and it woul dget killed by the voters for not being completely rape oriented. (and would get hammered by the anti-rape activists who don't even bother to read the stories; they just one-bomb anything in the nonconsent category because it is in that category.)