an odd development

[killallhippies]

that doesn't look right, but anyhoo...


have you ever been asked to put someone in your story? and by someone i mean as anyone ever requested that you put them in your story?

someone has just asked me to do that and i have no clue how to respond.

 

[cantdog]

Oh yes. I used to hang out at the story ideas board. A lot of people want themselves in a story. I'd write 'em and send them off to the person via e-mail.

One I almost posted here. But nobody liked the way the characters' motivation was handled, and I didn't bother to fix it.

Many of them were not Lit fare.

It's good writing exercise, I told myself, and I had a good time doing them.

What's the problem? If you publish, I mean really publish, change the name and whatnot.

cantdog

 

[killallhippies]

Oh yes. I used to hang out at the story ideas board. A lot of people want themselves in a story. I'd write 'em and send them off to the person via e-mail.

One I almost posted here. But nobody liked the way the characters' motivation was handled, and I didn't bother to fix it.

Many of them were not Lit fare.

It's good writing exercise, I told myself, and I had a good time doing them.

What's the problem? If you publish, I mean really publish, change the name and whatnot.

cantdog

no, i mean they want me to add them as a character in an on going series i'm writing, but i could probably handle what you're talking about.

still, it'd be a bit a weird to write a story about someone i don't really know. i try to write for a broad audience. trying to please just one person sounds hard.

 

[carsonshepherd]

Sometimes I take a particular thing someone told me about themselves, and write a story around it. But I use my own imagination to fill in the details; and if they don't like it... well, they've always liked it, so... don't know what I'd do.

I don't know if I could do what you're saying though. Be hard to negotiate if your portrayals weren't flattering.

 

[BlackShanglan]

Put me in Every erotic story needs a drunken, randy, gender-confused horse.

Shanglan

 

[killallhippies]

Sometimes I take a particular thing someone told me about themselves, and write a story around it. But I use my own imagination to fill in the details; and if they don't like it... well, they've always liked it, so... don't know what I'd do.

I don't know if I could do what you're saying though. Be hard to negotiate if your portrayals weren't flattering.

i'm talking to her in email right now. so far what she wants seems simple enough, but i still don't know.


no horses, sorry. bestiality is gross.

 

[cantdog]

no, i mean they want me to add them as a character in an on going series i'm writing, but i could probably handle what you're talking about.

still, it'd be a bit a weird to write a story about someone i don't really know. i try to write for a broad audience. trying to please just one person sounds hard.

It was always a bit anxious, because you could tread very hard on someone's toes like that, and you worry.

But in the end, they all professed themselves overjoyed.

Could you write them in only for them, and publish the series without them (or without them explicitly) anyway? A sort of personal version of Chapter 6, only for Friend B? Imagine if your grandfather's cousin had known Twain and had him do that. It that cooler than an autograph or what?

Maybe I'm missing the difficulty.

cantdog

 

[cantdog]

Hell I've put people in my stories when it was my idea. Only two people ever noticed, and they both liked the idea. If they'd been pissed, I could, I suppose, have lied and denied it.

 

[killallhippies]

It was always a bit anxious, because you could tread very hard on someone's toes like that, and you worry.

But in the end, they all professed themselves overjoyed.

Could you write them in only for them, and publish the series without them (or without them explicitly) anyway? A sort of personal version of Chapter 6, only for Friend B? Imagine if your grandfather's cousin had known Twain and had him do that. It that cooler than an autograph or what?

Maybe I'm missing the difficulty.

cantdog

the difficulty is in how i write. i just go off and let it go where it wants to and then i chop what i don't like and go on from there until i get a story i like. if i have to take someone else's feelings into account i might not be able to do that so easily.

 

[Boxlicker101]

no, i mean they want me to add them as a character in an on going series i'm writing, but i could probably handle what you're talking about.

still, it'd be a bit a weird to write a story about someone i don't really know. i try to write for a broad audience. trying to please just one person sounds hard.

A majority of my stories are written about specific readers. I even wrote stories about two Lit. aurhors. I used to send stories to a group of women and usually I would suggest they might like to be featured in a story. I would get their descriptions, sometimes including very specific things like tattoos, and write a story where the sex is what they like to do or a fantasy they have. I enjoyed doing this and sometimes they did too. sometimes they may have taken offense but they never told me so.

The story about Karen's birthday is a six chapter novella written about the real Karen, whom I have never met, and I sent it to her for her birthday, which was the swame date as the date in the narrative. While writing the story, I developed a certain amount of affection for Karen even though I have never actually met her.

If any women or couples are interesdted, I can write a story featuring them.

 

[killallhippies]

is it wrong that i might feel awkward about writing about a mute character? i don't think i've ever even met a mute.

 

[cantdog]

I'd want to, but the person would need to help me grok the life a little. If she had the patience for that, it would help me, in the end, more than having the story would help her. I think. I can see where it would be very daunting.

There was a very cool rainy day story by gauchecritic, Thunder Follows Lightning. It will get you an idea about the way of life. His style in this story is not going to influence you, I imagine, but the story is informative as well as brief, so it will repay your time to read it. It's really very good, too. Between that and a few telling questions you can pose to your client, I imagine you can get enough data in an afternoon to have an idea what you want to do with the new character.

If it still leaves you feeling out of your depth, skip it. No harm done, I assume, if you have to beg off, for now? I have had to turn down requests for BDSM stories, because I have almost no sympathy with power games, and I suffer from a conviction that all authority is illegitimate. I'm just not the man for the job.

Immediately after that, I started my 40 Days of the Weasel, to explore the idea. It's not a conventional BDSM story, and it's not getting much voting or attention over there. So I was probably right to tell her no.

I'm rambling. Sorry.


cantdog

 

[CharleyH]

If they'd been pissed, I could, I suppose, have lied and denied it.

LOL.

So, that's what I should have done!

 

[cantdog]

I made sure

LOL.

So, that's what I should have done!

Yeah. I made sure, when I put them in, that they were disguised enough to be innocent if they had to be, for some reason. I would do that not just for porn, either. There are barracudas out there who know just what kind of paper to file.

cantdog

 

[eric shawn listo]

I once got an e-mail asking that I write a story about this guy, his wife, his sister-in-law, her husband, his mother and father-in-law. And then "no incest, please". I shit you not.

esl

 

[LadyJeanne]

I once got an e-mail asking that I write a story about this guy, his wife, his sister-in-law, her husband, his mother and father-in-law. And then "no incest, please". I shit you not.

esl

Coffee spew on that one!

No incest? So let's see, that leaves you with these options:

-the current couples as is
-mom with him and her son-in-law
-dad with him and his son-in-law
-his wife with her brother-in-law
-him and his sister-in-law and brother-in-law

So he and the brother-in-law get the best end of the deal.

Piece of cake!

 

[eric shawn listo]

Coffee spew on that one!

No incest? So let's see, that leaves you with these options:

-the current couples as is
-mom with him and her son-in-law
-dad with him and his son-in-law
-his wife with her brother-in-law
-him and his sister-in-law and brother-in-law

So he and the brother-in-law get the best end of the deal.

Piece of cake!

Yeah, but where's the love?

 

[cantdog]

I love this place


That rocked.

Good luck, killallhippies. I hope you can manage to do the schtick.

cantdog

 

[killallhippies]

Re: I love this place

That rocked.

Good luck, killallhippies. I hope you can manage to do the schtick.

cantdog

me too. i agreed to do it, sort of. i told her she'd have to wait until after i finish what i'm working on and then i'd see what i can do. i also talked her into allowing me to write it as an entirely seperate story.

i hope i can do it. it'll be a nice challenge.