Strange request

[michaeljones2014]

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I was contacted by a literotica member asking me to write a story for them playing out their individual fantasy.

Anyone ever dealt with something similar? How did you handle?

Michael

 

[PennLady]

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I was contacted by a literotica member asking me to write a story for them playing out their individual fantasy.

Anyone ever dealt with something similar? How did you handle?

Michael

You can put them on your ignore list, or you can simply ignore them. Unless you want to write the story. There's no rule on this, not from the site. You are certainly not required to write such a story, or even respond to the request for one.

 

[sr71plt]

And, yes, others have received similar requests.

I've actually done it when the requester has asked in a way that interested me (and demonstrated that he/she knew my writing style) and when they've agreed that the story is then mine to post if/where I wanted. I have two coming out in an anthology that were requested as GM and a satin fetish. I'd never written one of those, one story was requested, and I wound up writing two.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I was contacted by a literotica member asking me to write a story for them playing out their individual fantasy.

Anyone ever dealt with something similar? How did you handle?

I got one to the effect of "your story was great, would you write me and my wife a hot lesbian story about Kathy Lee Gifford?"

For reference, the only story I've posted here is a talky introspective series about insecure Australians working in tech-support and wrestling with homophobia and family relationships. I'm not sure why they thought I'd be a good choice to write Sexxay Lesbian Fantasy with a celebrity who I wouldn't recognise if I met her, but I suspect they were just PMing random authors from the Lesbian category.

I gave them some sort of polite "Thanks for your interest, but that's not the sort of story I write".

 

[sr71plt]

That would have been an easy decision for me. Kathy Lee Gifford and hot? Give me a break.

 

[robertreams]

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I was contacted by a literotica member asking me to write a story for them playing out their individual fantasy.

Anyone ever dealt with something similar? How did you handle?

Michael

I might do it. I wonder if it would be against Literotica rules to charge by the page or word. Anyone know the answer to that question?

 

[Bramblethorn]

I might do it. I wonder if it would be against Literotica rules to charge by the page or word. Anyone know the answer to that question?

You can negotiate whatever arrangement you like with another author/reader, and whoever has the copyright can post it here if you choose. It's been done before.

That said, it often seems to work out badly, with buyers unhappy about the quality of the story they got for their money. If I was writing a short story on spec (say, 10k words) I'd be looking at at least $300 just to compensate for my time. If I was buying a short story to read for myself, I wouldn't be willing to pay $300 even for a great writer with a strong track record.

Commercial writing works because a large number of end-readers makes up for a relatively low unit cost. On Lit, you probably only have one buyer.

 

[DeYaKen]

Yes, twice.

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I was contacted by a literotica member asking me to write a story for them playing out their individual fantasy.

Anyone ever dealt with something similar? How did you handle?

Michael

The first one I did. She gave me as many personal details as she wanted to divulge. I sent her an outline and we agreed on it. The result was "Don't knock it till you've tried it" My only story set in the U.S. and the only one that I have attempted to write in the American language.

The second person wanted me to write a story about her but didn't give me any details other than a photograph. I found that I was inventing a character and I had no idea if it was her or not. Again it would have been set in the U.S. and she wanted a scenario that I knew nothing about. I told her I couldn't do it and I never heard from her again.


The first one told me that it turned her on to think of people reading the story and thinking "I wonder if that's the ginger I know?"

Having done it once, I did have misgivings. What if this was someone using me to embarrass someone else. I covered this with the usual disclaimer. You know the thing that says the story is fictional and characters represent no real person living or dead.

The two juicy stories were written for someone but the situation was different. She told me she liked the stories I wrote but she didn't get herself off while reading them. I took it as a challenge and wrote the first two which she said filled the bill. There should have been a third but I never got around to it.