A challenge: mutating idea

[KillerMuffin]

They say that if you give ten writers the same idea, they will write ten stories so varied that you couldn't really tell what the original idea was to begin with. I wonder if that's so.

So here is my idea:

A woman who had been raped on the last date she had is ready to experiment with sex again. She asks her friend, a man she thinks is gay, to help her find a guy. He wants to be that guy, but he's afraid she'll hate him when she finds out he's not gay.

No restrictions on it whatsoever, make what you will of it. Pick whatever category suits your fancy, write the characters however you like. The only restrictions are to stay within the basic outline of the idea.

Whattya think?

 

[Chicklet]

nice idea = ) I'd love to give it a go.

 

[curious2c]

Hmmm...sounds like..****. I haven't been writing as of late so perhaps this will get me back on track. I'll give it a go KM.

 

[book_man_03]

Any time scale on this?

BM3

 

[Chicklet]

Any time scale on this?

BM3

I would guess that as long as you subscribe to this thread and remember to post a link once your version is done, there doesn't really need to be a time frame.

 

[curious2c]

Heh...I posted this morning. Ummm...I had a story along this line already well started and hadn't finished it. Heh...I know...I am a cheater.

 

[destinie21]

what about the

lesbian category?

 

[snooper]

Heh...I posted this morning. Ummm...I had a story along this line already well started and hadn't finished it. Heh...I know...I am a cheater.

Give us a link then, or we won't find it.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

A woman who had been raped on the last date she had is ready to experiment with sex again. She asks her friend, a man she thinks is gay, to help her find a guy. He wants to be that guy, but he's afraid she'll hate him when she finds out he's not gay.

It's not my cup of tea at all, because it sounds like a melodrama with maybe one or two erotic parts thrown in, and because the topic gives me the general shudders.

I have no idea how I would handle this. Rape is such a heinous crime and sets such a totally anti-erotic tone, that I really don't think it's possible to produce anything th eleast bit erotic from this. All I can think of is some cliche-driven learning-to-love-again weeper, which is something I have never tried and and is way out of my field. I feel totally unqualified to undertake this.

Just thinking on paper: She's ready to start "experimenting" with sex again. Okay: let's say we've managed to get her together with her 'gay' friend. You're going to have a very delicate and clinical learning-to-trust scene here as they get intimate, and at some point it'll become apparent that he's not as gay as she thought. How do you handle this revelation in the middle of the climactic (NPI) moment of her overcoming her trauma? Christ, I don't know.

I'll be extremely interested to see what those more capable in this genre can make of this, but if this were even a paying assignment, I think I'd still have to turn it down as being out of my league and of no erotic interest to me.


---dr.M.

 

[Sabledrake]

The Iron Chef approach ... KM's just presented the theme ingredient! Allez Cuisine!

Sabledrake

 

[curious2c]

Give us a link then, or we won't find it.

Haven't got one ...it isn't posted in the stories section quite yet.

I will as soon as it is posted.

 

[Chicklet]

Re: Re: A challenge: mutating idea

I have no idea how I would handle this. Rape is such a heinous crime and sets such a totally anti-erotic tone, that I really don't think it's possible to produce anything th eleast bit erotic from this.

personally i was thinking that rather than the violent "rape" you're thinking of, she was in a sort of non-consensual situation like in my non-consent stories, where she sort of wants it sort of doesn't and then when it's over she's still confused. over time, my female character resents the male more and more for taking advantage of her, and distrusts all men. her friend (in my story) jokes and plays with her, teasing about how all men aren't that bad. some of the things he says are the reasons she begins to suspect that he's gay. finally, she's ready to trust men again, and confides to her friend that she's on the prowl. she asks him to go out to a bar with her and point out guys they think are cute, his first glance to the fact that she thinks he's gay. surprised, he's sort of amused and also sort of disapointed. so, he goes with her, but instead of helping her, points out everyones faults. that sort of thing. thinking on paper as well = )

 

[curious2c]

Posted on new stories this afternoon...here is the link to my story 'Lesson's Learned'

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=95765

Ummm...if you have comments...heh...be nice please.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Well, it's like Dr. Johnson said about the dog that played the trumpet: what's remarkable is not that he plays well, but that he plays at all.

I've got to hand it to you, Curious, you rose to the challenge and met it head on. The dual narrator idea was very clever.

I have to admit though, that "oral ministrations" is a red flag for me. You lost me there.


---dr.M.

 

[Rainbow Skin]

Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON: 'Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprized to find it done at all.'


I don't see the rape as a problem in writing the story, since you don't have to depict it. It could be a long time in the past, mentioned once, and as she's willing to try again she is evidently no longer in such a traumatized condition as would be painful to write.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I meant Dr. Steve Johnson. of Dr. Johnson's All-Animal Orchestra.

Or something

---dr.M.

 

[curious2c]

Well, it's like Dr. Johnson said about the dog that played the trumpet: what's remarkable is not that he plays well, but that he plays at all.

I've got to hand it to you, Curious, you rose to the challenge and met it head on. The dual narrator idea was very clever.

I have to admit though, that "oral ministrations" is a red flag for me. You lost me there.


---dr.M.

Heh...I did have some...trepidations about using that particular term. Oh well...can't hit it all the time. (Now, if I could hit it partof the time I would be happy.)