Question about an idea I have but it's not actually for a story

[Chloe2002]

Hi and thanks already for your time and hopefully, help.

Sometimes I go to the chat here and then....
So what i was thinking...

The way people (not all people) try and strike up a conversation with me (probably not only like that with me alone) is, to say it diplomatically, clumsy and sometimes funny but surely colorful.
I have (had) no experience with this and so far I like it. Let's say I learned a thing or two. And I am eager to learn (IRL that's not exactly easy). Most people are incredibly interesting to say the least.

So what I thought is, maybe there's an audience that would like to read about chatting from my perspective (first time)?
I have an idea to write about these experiences in a journal or diary format (no, not "dear diary")

Needless to say, apart from me not going to use Emojis too much, usernames and other identifiable information would be changed or left out and the actual conversations (lewd or not) will be rewritten so no one could be able to figure out who I was chatting with.
Or I adapt everything so much, to the point that it would be completely fiction and loosely based on these experiences.

Considering that it is well written, would this be something you would read?

 

[AlinaX]

You've just reminded me how much fun it can be scrolling through bash.org
- am I showing my age?

 

[Nouh_Bdee]

Is your question: "If I wrote this, would people read and enjoy it?"

I say yes. Turn it into a story. Why not?

 

[yukonnights]

Hi and thanks already for your time and hopefully, help.

Sometimes I go to the chat here and then....
So what i was thinking...

The way people (not all people) try and strike up a conversation with me (probably not only like that with me alone) is, to say it diplomatically, clumsy and sometimes funny but surely colorful.
I have (had) no experience with this and so far I like it. Let's say I learned a thing or two. And I am eager to learn (IRL that's not exactly easy). Most people are incredibly interesting to say the least.

So what I thought is, maybe there's an audience that would like to read about chatting from my perspective (first time)?
I have an idea to write about these experiences in a journal or diary format (no, not "dear diary")

Needless to say, apart from me not going to use Emojis too much, usernames and other identifiable information would be changed or left out and the actual conversations (lewd or not) will be rewritten so no one could be able to figure out who I was chatting with.
Or I adapt everything so much, to the point that it would be completely fiction and loosely based on these experiences.

Considering that it is well written, would this be something you would read?

I think this could be done. However, instead of just a recitation of past chat-room exchanges — it would be more of a "story" if told in your point-of-view. In that, you would be able to write about your own thoughts (arousal to disgust and everything in between). I think this is in the middle between just a "journal of chat sessions" and the "completely fiction" options. The important thing to remember is that the reader has to become engaged in the story in order to experience the same strong emotions you did while chatting. A lot of that has to do with them "becoming you" through the story narrative.

Give it a go — have a friend or two proof-read it and get some feedback from them. Good luck!

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'd say give it a go, but as Yukon notes, make it more than just the chat transcript: fill in the personal elements to make it more alive. A plain transcript, just by itself, could be very mechanical.

 

[Bramblethorn]

You've just reminded me how much fun it can be scrolling through bash.org
- am I showing my age?

I'm wearing my robes and wizard hat.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

I'd say give it a go, but as Yukon notes, make it more than just the chat transcript: fill in the personal elements to make it more alive. A plain transcript, just by itself, could be very mechanical.

What EB said. I hd two lady friends share an erotic chat they had with me to post on this site. Lesbian Cyber Sex is hot but one of my 4 low scored stories because it's short and written almost like a script.

If I had chnaged it into a story format, it would have scored higher. But the ladies didn't want that, they wanted to save this chat for posterity.

 

[davion2308]

Sure

You could do this and probably tell a funny story, throwing in humor, and then having someone sweet-talk you into taking your clothes off for a voyeur watching on the other end of the computer.

Call me a grumbler but all those parenthesis made that first post challenging to read. Let's go easy on the punctuation.

But I think you have something. If you do the first scene right, with the comments and conversation accurate, we'll instantly buy into what you're saying. Everyone has experienced clunky and awkward conversation starters in a chat room, especially when they're trying to be intriguing or sexy and it comes off wrong. That level of hilarity is shared by all of us.

Get writing!

 

[sirhugs]

Several of my stories are edited versions of online chats (Holly Likes Handcuffs comes to mind, but I know there were others, mostly around that time period)