That doesn't work here because no-one is paying royalties.
That doesn't matter - it's how Laurel interprets it for this site. The reality is, she generally won't allow quoting complete lyrics. As I noted above, I managed to get fifty percent of a translated Russian poem over the line, but that was only after several go-arounds (the original poem was in the public domain, the translation was not).
I know, and I can't imagine what EMI Music Publishing (one of the companies that Updike contacted) would think if they were asked for permission from an unpaid writer on an erotic literature site.
But the site itself does make money through advertising, which is probably why Laurel is a bit twitchy about it.
If they got formal permission, they could use as many lines as they got formal permission to use.
I had a story rejected once for extensive use of the poetry. When I noted that I wrote the poetry and pointed to where Literotica had previously published that poetry, the story went through as originally written.
Same and I don't think i've written lyrics into a story since. It makes things a little challenging because music is such a big part of all cultures, and who doesn't belt out the lyrics to songs every now and then? Characters are more real if they're deep in a moshpit, jumping about and belting out the lyrics to the band on stage, or perhaps singing a gentle love song to their lover.
Or, you could see how different authors interpret the same song, coming up with different stories? A few years back there was the One Night in XXX challenge, where every story title began with the words One Night in...(city or place of authors choice), resulting in many different stories.
You've brought up an interesting problem. As an author, you probably want to use references but you'll never be sure if your readers will understand them all. I guess that is inevitable. There are so many variations among age groups, races, ethnicities, nationalities, and so forth that everybody has a different frame of reference. When I tried to read Trainspotting, the dialog is in such a thick Edinburgh - call it patois? - that I couldn't get through more than ten pages. That doesn't mean it was a bad book necessarily.Same and I don't think i've written lyrics into a story since. It makes things a little challenging because music is such a big part of all cultures, and who doesn't belt out the lyrics to songs every now and then? Characters are more real if they're deep in a moshpit, jumping about and belting out the lyrics to the band on stage, or perhaps singing a gentle love song to their lover.
But it provides an opportunity for a little additional creativeness. For my story When We Were Young, it starts with some late teens getting into the back of a Holden panel van, an Australian car, also known as a ‘Sandman’, with a driver who’s been drinking, and they take pills in the dark while music is blaring. The main character, Erin, is reluctant to enter the vehicle, and naturally the blaring song is Metalica’s Enter Sandman. She ends up taking her boyfriend Charlie’s hand, knowing their decisions were dumb, dumb, dumb (in time with Enter Sandman’s drums, at least in my head!) and they pop pills, off with the fairies, heading off to never never land (fairies, tinkerbell, never never land...). Okay, probably way too obscure, where few would pick the references, but it worked for me as I listened to the song over and over while I wrote that scene!
There are others throughout the story, particularly a scene where an older and wiser Erin runs into Charlie years later, and the title song When We Were Young by Adele is playing, and she knows everyone’s been watching him all night, where the light is perfect for her to photograph him, which she does, thinking it’ll be the last time she’ll likely see him, reminding her of when they were young. All attempts at referencing the song lyrics without explicitly writing them. Like I said, it worked for me
Or, you could see how different authors interpret the same song, coming up with different stories? A few years back there was the One Night in XXX challenge, where every story title began with the words One Night in...(city or place of authors choice), resulting in many different stories.
I can't find it off-hand, but there is a Mark Twain quote to the effect that a person's views will be affected by whoever is paying their salary. Anyway, Lit makes money from selling products too. What is the financial deal with the camgirls?
This what you’re thinking of?
That’s the one I’m familiar with. Not sure about a Twain one.
So...is this thing happening? Hint, hint
Sweet. I have no idea other than I suppose you contact Laurel who runs LitE. There’s likely a few people who’ve created challenges reading this thread and would be able to offer advice.
Every day's International Music Day in my book!
