Do You Have A Time Period Or Historical Event...

[gordo12]

...that keeps showing up in your writing? A preference for a certain period of time in your settings. Is there a historical event that's important to you culturally that you focus on?

For me, it's the current years.

The next twenty years after the civil war for Westerns

The age of Dinosaurs.

Outer Space

For some reason, I have no desire to write anything from 1890-2010. Wars, disease, depression Etc do not resonate with me.

How about you?

 

[KristinKailey]

Have you considered a futuristic story in which dinosaurs from outer space arrive on Earth wearing cowboy gear to round up all the silly humans? Seems like it would tick just about all your boxes

As for time periods, I tend toward either modern day or dystopian future.

 

[gordo12]

Have you considered a futuristic story in which dinosaurs from outer space arrive on Earth wearing cowboy gear to round up all the silly humans? Seems like it would tick just about all your boxes

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OMG, DO NOT let Simon see that idea.

 

[MillieDynamite]

So, Written in Blood is in 1901

The Case of the Rich Man's Wife is set in 1945

Baptized in Blood is set at some point in the 1990s

A Kiss Before We Part is present day-ish

Carnal Crimes - Back Road Cop 1980s

In the Arms of the Succubus is in the later years of 10 century begging around 996 a few years before Sylvester II was made pope

As just a sampling of my writing and the time periods I visit. It calls for a lot of research.

 

[MillieDynamite]

For some reason, I have no desire to write anything from 1890-2010. Wars, disease, depression Etc do not resonate with me.

In all of human history, there has only been a maximum of 20 years without war somewhere on the glob.

 

[NotWise]

Starting in Part 2 of my longest chaptered stories, the two main characters relate stories from ancestral memory. They start in San Salvador in 1980 or so, and work back by generations to 1932. Then they jump to what is now El Salvador ~1800, then to Spain ~1540, and finally to Leon in about 980.

Aside from the current time, Leon at the beginning of the high middle ages is the only time and location that repeats in my stories.

Edit: Wait, I forgot about The Third Ring -- now two stories set in the distant future on the planet of Urta.

 

[KeithD]

I'll try any and all.

 

[gordo12]

In all of human history, there has only been a maximum of 20 years without war somewhere on the glob.

Sad, isn't it?

I've got a plot sketched out that will take place during the Crusades. Around 1100
or so. Lots of research going to be needed for that one. I ran across a lady on Twitter who was into that time period. I may try to contact her and pick her brain, although there is tons of reference material.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Sad, isn't it?

I've got a plot sketched out that will take place during the Crusades. Around 1100
or so. Lots of research going to be needed for that one. I ran across a lady on Twitter who was into that time period. I may try to contact her and pick her brain, although there is tons of reference material.

I haven't written a story, when

So long ago,
Knights were bold,
and the wind did blow
Ladies in Distress were cold,
and to make some dough
Merlin wrote stories to be sold

You know

 

[yowser]

Mostly contemporary (last 20 years or so). Excluding one fantasy (timeless) series, the other outliers are a couple late sixties (San Francisco and Vietnam war era) and Medieval Europe (14th and 15th centuries) tales. Plenty of characters often have unhealthy obsessions with medieval and early modern texts and themes.

 

[ElectricBlue]

OMG, DO NOT let Simon see that idea.

Too late, he's already on to it.

"Mom Fucked a Cowboy Dinosaur." Who needs a literary agent when he's got us?

 

[ElectricBlue]

...that keeps showing up in your writing? A preference for a certain period of time in your settings. Is there a historical event that's important to you culturally that you focus on?

Mine are either hard "now", contemporary urban erotica; or in my wider ranging nostalgic vibe stuff, there's a late seventies, early eighties Australian mood in my mind when I write them, for the simple reason that's when my sexuality emerged. I call down on that a lot. Australian summers on the beaches of northern NSW, or Canberra, which is my "primal city" with the lake and winds blowing cold from the snow on the Brindabellas.

 

[gordo12]

Too late, he's already on to it.

"Mom Fucked a Cowboy Dinosaur." Who needs a literary agent when he's got us?

LOL. They ought to give the OP of the thread a modify button. I could have changed that! As long as he doesn't drag Hucows or Penis Fish into it...

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Most of my stories revolve around Manhattan Beach CA in 1985

 

[RetroFan]

I write a lot of stories set in the past, hence my user name.

While most of my stories are set in my country Australia, in the ones I have set in New York and the surrounding states the Twin Towers tend to feature. For example Madison from 'Spoiled Princess Hates Camping' set in 1994 and Tina from 'Tall Tina's First Time' which is set in 1977 both see the WTC towers, while Allison's husband Dennis from 'The PTA Queen Bee & the Teen Rebel' which takes place in 1988 works at the WTC North Tower. Sabrina from 'The Babysitter & the Waterbed' which is set in 1992 is babysitting for a yuppie couple on Long Island who are going into the city to attend a function at the WTC.

 

[gordo12]

Most of my stories revolve around Manhattan Beach CA in 1985

If anyone feels like sharing WHY their period is important to them...go for it.

 

[SimonDoom]

OMG, DO NOT let Simon see that idea.

Hmmm. My name pops up in odd places. Not sure what to think about that.

In response to the original post: no. Almost all of my stories are set in the present. My focus has been on covering the various kinks and sexual activities I'm interested in writing about rather than something in a historical setting. I suppose it's odd, because I love to read history.

It would be a good challenge, so I'll give it some thought.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

I spent 3.5 years stationed at LAAFB and lived in Manhattan Beach between 1990 and 1993. I really enjoyed it.

 

[gordo12]

Hmmm. My name pops up in odd places. Not sure what to think about that.

In response to the original post: no. Almost all of my stories are set in the present. My focus has been on covering the various kinks and sexual activities I'm interested in writing about rather than something in a historical setting. I suppose it's odd, because I love to read history.

It would be a good challenge, so I'll give it some thought.

We're not trying to say you're odd or anything like that. No, definitely not that.

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[BiscuitHammer]

Strictly based on the story, I guess.

The Alexaverse takes place in the 21st century, with flashbacks to the mid-to-late 80's.

Time Rider happens, well... literally whenever and wherever I send the characters. They've been to Louis XIV's France, they've been to Imperial Rome... Mark showed up back in our time with an enraged velociraptor, so his trip to the late Cretaceous apparently didn't go so well.

The Great Khan happens in Mongolia at the time of the Song Dynasty.

I'm going to be publishing another story soon that takes place in the Roaring '20's.

Most of my stories talk place in the here and now, but I love, love LOVE historical fiction, so I am very likely to produce yet more.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Most of my stories revolve around Manhattan Beach CA in 1985

There is a Manhattan Beach in Denver Colorado, on a lake in the City!

 

[TadOverdon]

Have you considered a futuristic story in which dinosaurs from outer space arrive on Earth wearing cowboy gear to round up all the silly humans? Seems like it would tick just about all your boxes

I'm sure that Chuck Tingle has already done it. With buttsex.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I'm sure that Chuck Tingle has already done it. With buttsex.

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[yukonnights]

I have several that use the time period as part of the story premise and foundation.

* Choosing Love; a lesbian romance set in the Viet Nam war era ~ mid 1960's (An impatient husband leaves his young wife alone in his eagerness to go join the fight.)

* Mountain Man; This one is my second story published back in 2008 and is a gay-male / transgender story set in the early 1800's USA west of the Mississippi River. (Finally! After more than three months of river travel, James got his first look at St. Louis. From his home in Pennsylvania he had followed the same difficult route down the Ohio River and then the toilsome grind up the Mississippi that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had done seven years earlier.)

* One Night In Baton Rouge; Hetero Romance set in July 30, 1968 at a Jimi Hendrix concert. ( The story is inspired by the words of the song Me & Bobby McGee)

* Secret Canyon; Gay Male romance set in the post Civil War era and ranges from central Texas to the gold rush in Colorado Territory in the mid 1800's. (I have another western story in progress set in a similar way in the gold rush era around Cripple Creek CO. - This one is a heterosexual western romance with outlaws and ladies of the night.)

* Seduction, Submission & Surrender; Gay Male story set in 1969 Bolder CO. Involves a Viet Nam vet and younger man. ( A recent Nam vet saves a younger man when a Halloween street party turns violent and the police intervene.)

* Valentine's Day In Wild Alaska 1983; Heterosexual romance set in the oil boom years in along the Taylor Highway between Jack Wade and Chicken Alaska near the Canadian border.

*** Other than these, the rest are simply "in the present time" whatever that may be.

 

[jaykaythree]

The Light And the Fire:
Starts in 1979, then jumps ahead to 1999.

Naples, Missouri/The Sunrise:
Some lead-in, but mostly 1995 and 96.

The common elements are these: we start with (as it happens) the first time for both the narrator and his partner, and ends up following them to the present day.