Influences & Inspirations

[desecration]

I found this weird little story today:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03394-6

Kind of gothic sci-fi cyberpunk at an odd source.

What are your influences and inspirations? The former would be other writers, the latter could be just about anything that makes you feel like writing.

 

[rescatooor]

Sometimes people who really piss me off get me inspired to write again.

Madison's Game is a result of that. Recently I have been thinking of writing some kind of lecturer-student story. I didn't like the last grade my prof gave me and I felt it was unjust. Way to get it out of my system.

 

[SimonDoom]

My inspirations have come from many sources. They include (but are not limited to) the following:

1. Other erotic authors' stories.
2. Personal experiences. To be honest, my personal experiences are not that wild. But I've dabbled here and there in some things and extrapolated wild fantasies based on those limited experiences, and those have become the basis of stories. "Nude Day Running Adventure," for example, was inspired, though certainly not based on, my experiences with running a lot and one time I went skinny dipping while running, many years ago.
3. Pure thin air. Stuff plucked straight from the imagination.
4. News stories. This is how Penis Fish came to be.
5. The desire to exploit a weird fetish. My tentacle porn story fits into this category.
6. Pornography. Most visual porn has almost no story behind it, but sometimes it gives me the idea for making it into a story.
7. Sexing up favorite novels or stories from the past. E.g., my Hobbit-Elf sex story. Someday I'd like to try re-writing Pride and Prejudice with a heavy BDSM slant.

 

[ElectricBlue]

What are your influences and inspirations? The former would be other writers, the latter could be just about anything that makes you feel like writing.

Being alive, seeing an attractive woman in the street, the friendly waitress, the memory of that woman, that place, that time. I write erotic nostalgia as I grow old, vaguely disgracefully.

 

[RoperTrace]

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[NotWise]

Hemingway and Fitzgerald were my biggest influences. I guess that makes me outdated. Beta readers here have also been important influences, especially for stories early in my catalog.

My inspirations come from all over the place: dreams, scenery, photos, research, a perceived necessity, people I have known, and so on.

 

[windar]

Often news stories.

Sometimes historical biographies.

 

[SimonDoom]

I forgot to include an important one:

8. Other real people I encounter online who want me to write a story about them. I make up a story that caters to their fantasy. That can be a lot of fun. I'm doing it right now.

 

[RoperTrace]

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[SimonDoom]

Hemingway and Fitzgerald were my biggest influences. I guess that makes me outdated. .

I don't think it makes you outdated at all. Literature is timeless. Anybody, anywhere, can read anything, from any time, and be influenced by it.

If I had to pick one work of fiction that influenced me the most, it would probably be Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach. I read it when I was young and impressionable, and it influenced me and the way I think about things a lot. I think of my views about life, art, fate, and philosophy as that of a morbid optimist: life is full of shit and darkness, but there's always an opportunity for redemption, improvement, kindness, reason, humor, and hope. And sex, of course.

 

[windar]

Someday I'd like to try re-writing Pride and Prejudice with a heavy BDSM slant.

Someone I know started on that. The first chapter was very good, but he never went further...

 

[ElectricBlue]

"Morbid optimist." I like that .

I consider myself more an erotic nostalgist, but at least I'm not in Shady Pines yet.

 

[TadOverdon]

Hemingway and Fitzgerald were my biggest influences. I guess that makes me outdated.

Not on my account. Hemingway is still tops for me. More troubled than he would let himself appear to the world at large, a brilliant writer who changed everything.

 

[lovecraft68]

For my smut, a lot of porn influence, from classic tropes to the kind of out there.

My horror has a lot of 80's slasher influence in the level of violence especially revenge themes exploitation/rapesploitation things like I spit on your grave.

Last my wife and I have done role plays and a few of them have inspired stories. Two of my best received stories here are based on them, both romances...cause when I'm role playing I can pretend to be sweet.

 

[lovecraft68]

philosophy as that of a morbid optimist: life is full of shit and darkness, but there's always an opportunity for redemption, improvement, kindness, reason, humor, and hope. And sex, of course.

Mine is summed up pretty much with as a race we are irredeemable trash. We're the infestation of the Earth burning, breaking, murdering, raping, stealing bickering whining...cockroaches of the universe.

As for any type of afterlife for me its Ex Nihilo, from nothing to nothing which leads to Hedonism in that this is one life we have so live it as best you can among the cockroaches.

In other words I am a ray of fucking sunshine.

 

[desecration]

Literature is timeless. Anybody, anywhere, can read anything, from any time, and be influenced by it.

In fact, many would say that's what separates literature from popular introspective fiction.

Roald Dahl... what an interesting influence.

For me, lots of Celine and Borges.

 

[SamScribble]

Yesterday, I whacked out a little story 'inspired' by four smiling, naked people standing in front of a caravan.

Who took the photograph? I wondered.

And the dogs were suddenly running.

 

[jsmiam]

I had a couple good “opposites day” inspirations. More than one author here can paint pictures with their words in ways I never will.

They are inspiring though, because I enjoyed their writing, learned a little, but nonetheless I was smart enough not to try it myself. Seeing first hand how good they were and obviously bad I would be if I tried it reminded me to stick to what comes natural to me, and to do it myyyyyyyy wayyyyyyyy. (There. I’ve now sung to you all too. )

 

[PennameWombat]

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7. Sexing up favorite novels or stories from the past. E.g., my Hobbit-Elf sex story. Someday I'd like to try re-writing Pride and Prejudice with a heavy BDSM slant.

Oh... hey... https://forum.literotica.com/showpost.php?p=94431314&postcount=24 - Pride and Prejudice and Penises. Elizabeth Bennett learns to use a whip.

Admittedly, I haven't actually written it.

 

[LAHomedog]

Mine is summed up pretty much with as a race we are irredeemable trash. We're the infestation of the Earth burning, breaking, murdering, raping, stealing bickering whining...cockroaches of the universe.

As for any type of afterlife for me its Ex Nihilo, from nothing to nothing which leads to Hedonism in that this is one life we have so live it as best you can among the cockroaches.

In other words I am a ray of fucking sunshine.

You crack me up.

 

[LAHomedog]

Look around you. Watch and listen. There are stories everywhere.

It can be as small as a touch of a hand, something that you've read or watched on a screen. A picture, a song lyric, a memory. Maybe it's something big, The world and life are filled with stories.

As I'm writing this I am sitting in my living room watching a movie about a doctor. A doctor is many stories, a nurse, the patient. A fireplace is to my right, that's a story. A roaring fire, brandy by it, a seduction in front of it.

My kitchen is to my left. 100s of stories there. She's cooking dinner and you notice her ass, you reach into your fridge and realize you've always wanted to pour chocolate sauce on someone. You have always wanted to fuck on the kitchen counter.

My wife has already gone to bed. I can sneak in and surprise her while she is sleeping, or use this as an opportunity to meet my lover.

Every moment of your life has an opportunity for a story. I use to play a game with myself where something would happen and I'd make up a story. When I'm walking and someone passes me, I look at them and make up a story about their life.

Life is a conversation, and conversations create stories. My two cents.

 

[rainbowbite]

Most of my inspiration comes from real life experiences. Sometimes a picture inspires me and I create a poem or a story centered around it. I'm also inspired by nature. I enjoy detailed writing. Beautiful, descriptive imagery is something that keeps me excited to write, and one of the main reasons I love to read. It's exciting to hear when readers feel like they are in the story.

 

[NotWise]

Look around you. Watch and listen. There are stories everywhere.

A moment in a day is all it takes. It might depend on your setting though.

I commented once about the women I see in the grocery story, and TxRad replied to the effect of "most of the women I see in the grocery store look like three pigs fighting in the front and two pigs fighting in back."

Maybe that's a story, but Eew.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Someday I'd like to try re-writing Pride and Prejudice with a heavy BDSM slant.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a spanking."

 

[NotWise]

Why does everyone want to rewrite "Pride and Prejudice?" We already have "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" in both novel and movie versions. It isn't like you're breaking new ground.