cathoberscaravan
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I am sort of new here, more about that later. And I am seeking advice from those who have been successful writing here. (BTW I define that as number of reads, number of favorites and positive comments, and score in descending order.
I have a multi-part story I want to write. It is based on a true story. But to tell the story cleanly and avoid “outing” the less involved conspirators – nobody is “innocent” in this story – it will be told as fiction.
I was thinking – since it may take me years to write it all – of splitting it into multiple stand alone stories that I would name alphabetically in chronological order according to the MCs discovery of events. Since the site does not allow an explicit “’Aapple Wine’ is continued in ‘A Berry big Mess,’” I was thinking of ending each story with a clear reference that would be the next title. So, the story “’Aapple Wine’ would end “Which is of course why we all call her “Betsy Ross.” Then ‘Betsy Ross’ would stat with the statement: ”This story is a continuation of “’Aapple Wine,’ and ‘Cabin for Two’ will start out: “This is the continuation of the story begun in ’Aapple Wine’ and continued in ‘Betsy Ross.’
Alternately, I could name them for years of my life, 'When she was Twenty-one' and 'When she was Twenty-two' or even just '21' and '22' which would then be listed in order in my index.
Questions – comments – opinions?
The story contains a “Squick” topic – the two protagonists share the same biological father. Since it is fiction, I tried fleshing it out without that fact, but that one fact in major part explains the seemingly illogical or self-destructive motivations of every significant character in the story. If the two MCs relationship is a significant part of each story, I assume all stories would go into I/T. I also assume keeping the whole tale in the category that most potential readers would negatively react to is wise.
Questions – comments – opinions?
There is a significant pre-sexual backstory between the two MCs. They were raised in the same house, by a man who publicly professed virtue and adherence to the law, but privately was without morals or ethics. In the story I will limit the father’s criminal activity to economic ones, as I said fiction is cleaner.
The two MCs were inseparable as kids and classmates at school. They grew up privileged but disliked by the townspeople. Everyone was told that he was “adopted” during her father’s noble missionary work (in fact he was her father’s child by a poor housekeeper who was “sent away with a parting gift of cash” after he was born and kept as a trophy for his wife to raise – two salient points that will likely have to be omitted).
(At puberty – which again will have to be omitted) the two were told to find other “more appropriate” playmates. But by then her two younger siblings were a dyad, and she believed that the admonition was racial, she hadn’t been told he was her half-brother. She ignored it. When her parents forbade them from seeing each other outside of school they stated sneaking off together – again strictly platonic, they considered themselves brother and sister.
The Sheriff, who had been on her father’s payroll for years but hated him, saw an opportunity for career advancement. He framed the male protagonist for a theft at a time when he was alone with the female protagonist. When her “brother” was arrested she alibied him, confessing to disobeying her parents. Her parents first tried to get her to recant her alibi by telling her the truth, when that did not have the desired effect, they sent her away to college.
The Sheriff claimed to have proof that the two were sneaking off together for sexual reasons and threatened to publicize this (it wasn’t true – I don’t know if this can this be told. I would think so if both MCs were over 18 at the time). The father despite being a thief, rapist and all-around scumbag had feelings for his son and got the judge to make a deal sending him to the Army for two years. The male protagonist was not tried. Everyone in town – except the involved characters – thought he was guilty. This disarmed the Sheriff rendering his “blackmail material” worthless.
I wanted to start the story when he gets out of the Army two years later – he was sent overseas, but they kept in touch. They reunite when he goes to see her at the college, the four preceding paragraphs being told in flashback…
How do I tell this within the rules? IRL they were 21 almost 22 when they became “romantically involved” with one another. But the groundwork, the trust and understanding the shared knowledge of their family history, and their hypocritical hometown that observed rules in the breech – sometimes – and dispensations granted – cash only so as to not leave records. Is all from before?
Questions – comments – opinions?
Thank you, Cathy
I have been “Literotically reincarnated” as Cathy Ober. This site published a very few of my stories over a year ago under a different name. They were first efforts and probably not very good. I had to resubmit several of them after going back and clarifying exactly when events told in flashback occurred, and I also included (or didn’t include elements) that led to the stories being categorized differently than I had wished.
I am still not clear on what I can say in a story about a rape that does not occur to a MC but informs decisions they make in a story – I ended up changing it to a mugging and aggravated assault. I did figure out how to keep everything out of IR however.
I have a multi-part story I want to write. It is based on a true story. But to tell the story cleanly and avoid “outing” the less involved conspirators – nobody is “innocent” in this story – it will be told as fiction.
I was thinking – since it may take me years to write it all – of splitting it into multiple stand alone stories that I would name alphabetically in chronological order according to the MCs discovery of events. Since the site does not allow an explicit “’Aapple Wine’ is continued in ‘A Berry big Mess,’” I was thinking of ending each story with a clear reference that would be the next title. So, the story “’Aapple Wine’ would end “Which is of course why we all call her “Betsy Ross.” Then ‘Betsy Ross’ would stat with the statement: ”This story is a continuation of “’Aapple Wine,’ and ‘Cabin for Two’ will start out: “This is the continuation of the story begun in ’Aapple Wine’ and continued in ‘Betsy Ross.’
Alternately, I could name them for years of my life, 'When she was Twenty-one' and 'When she was Twenty-two' or even just '21' and '22' which would then be listed in order in my index.
Questions – comments – opinions?
The story contains a “Squick” topic – the two protagonists share the same biological father. Since it is fiction, I tried fleshing it out without that fact, but that one fact in major part explains the seemingly illogical or self-destructive motivations of every significant character in the story. If the two MCs relationship is a significant part of each story, I assume all stories would go into I/T. I also assume keeping the whole tale in the category that most potential readers would negatively react to is wise.
Questions – comments – opinions?
There is a significant pre-sexual backstory between the two MCs. They were raised in the same house, by a man who publicly professed virtue and adherence to the law, but privately was without morals or ethics. In the story I will limit the father’s criminal activity to economic ones, as I said fiction is cleaner.
The two MCs were inseparable as kids and classmates at school. They grew up privileged but disliked by the townspeople. Everyone was told that he was “adopted” during her father’s noble missionary work (in fact he was her father’s child by a poor housekeeper who was “sent away with a parting gift of cash” after he was born and kept as a trophy for his wife to raise – two salient points that will likely have to be omitted).
(At puberty – which again will have to be omitted) the two were told to find other “more appropriate” playmates. But by then her two younger siblings were a dyad, and she believed that the admonition was racial, she hadn’t been told he was her half-brother. She ignored it. When her parents forbade them from seeing each other outside of school they stated sneaking off together – again strictly platonic, they considered themselves brother and sister.
The Sheriff, who had been on her father’s payroll for years but hated him, saw an opportunity for career advancement. He framed the male protagonist for a theft at a time when he was alone with the female protagonist. When her “brother” was arrested she alibied him, confessing to disobeying her parents. Her parents first tried to get her to recant her alibi by telling her the truth, when that did not have the desired effect, they sent her away to college.
The Sheriff claimed to have proof that the two were sneaking off together for sexual reasons and threatened to publicize this (it wasn’t true – I don’t know if this can this be told. I would think so if both MCs were over 18 at the time). The father despite being a thief, rapist and all-around scumbag had feelings for his son and got the judge to make a deal sending him to the Army for two years. The male protagonist was not tried. Everyone in town – except the involved characters – thought he was guilty. This disarmed the Sheriff rendering his “blackmail material” worthless.
I wanted to start the story when he gets out of the Army two years later – he was sent overseas, but they kept in touch. They reunite when he goes to see her at the college, the four preceding paragraphs being told in flashback…
How do I tell this within the rules? IRL they were 21 almost 22 when they became “romantically involved” with one another. But the groundwork, the trust and understanding the shared knowledge of their family history, and their hypocritical hometown that observed rules in the breech – sometimes – and dispensations granted – cash only so as to not leave records. Is all from before?
Questions – comments – opinions?
Thank you, Cathy
I have been “Literotically reincarnated” as Cathy Ober. This site published a very few of my stories over a year ago under a different name. They were first efforts and probably not very good. I had to resubmit several of them after going back and clarifying exactly when events told in flashback occurred, and I also included (or didn’t include elements) that led to the stories being categorized differently than I had wished.
I am still not clear on what I can say in a story about a rape that does not occur to a MC but informs decisions they make in a story – I ended up changing it to a mugging and aggravated assault. I did figure out how to keep everything out of IR however.
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