based on IM transcripts

[jimd556]

I have some yahoo IM transcripts I'd like to be turned into a lesbian story. If you are willing to write the story send me a PM and we can go from there.

 

[KarlMartinK]

I don't know about others, but to me, those are the worst stories. Maybe others will like them, but when I read a story that sounds like it's an IM transcript, it's not exciting at all.

 

[mythtrav16]

I don't know about others, but to me, those are the worst stories. Maybe others will like them, but when I read a story that sounds like it's an IM transcript, it's not exciting at all.

This is a very accurate reflection of public opinion. I wrote a story that was a collection of posts made right here in the Lit forums. It got trashed both in comments and ratings. Even the nicest comments pretty much said "Don't write another story like this, one story in this style is an interesting novelty, more would be annoying."

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

I agree with the other posters. I will not bother to read a story with a bunch of IM quotes.

You might try to write a normal story including paraphrases from the IMs and including partial direct quotes from the IM but, fleshed out to make the story flow properly.

Mike

 

[jimd556]

I don't think you are getting the idea. The IM's form the basic outline and the dialogue, the writer fleshes it out to a full story. I am not suggesting a story made up of only IM's.

 

[Noira]

I don't think you are getting the idea. The IM's form the basic outline and the dialogue, the writer fleshes it out to a full story. I am not suggesting a story made up of only IM's.

I get the idea. I in fact write with a friend via IM all the time. (Well, to be fair we've upgraded to Google docs now that it loads faster with the new version.) But I defend all IM writers everywhere--if you make sure your spelling and grammar is coherent, if you optimally use two programs (MSN and AIM, Yahoo and Skype, whatever) so that in one window you can discuss the forward motion and in the other you can do the real writing to keep all out of character chatter where it belongs... not in the story.

And I'm willing to whip out story to prove that it reads just fine, once you use Find and Replace to remove our usernames from the mix. It's non-erotica, though, so none of it's on Lit.

I would need to know more about the story to take it on, but I just wanted to step in to defend writing via IM versus posting a transcript.

 

[jeninflorida]

I have some yahoo IM transcripts I'd like to be turned into a lesbian story. If you are willing to write the story send me a PM and we can go from there.

how is the IM with? two men trying to be "online" women?

 

[Totzman]

This is a very accurate reflection of public opinion. I wrote a story that was a collection of posts made right here in the Lit forums. It got trashed both in comments and ratings. Even the nicest comments pretty much said "Don't write another story like this, one story in this style is an interesting novelty, more would be annoying."

One of my most popular stories was in a format similiar to this. If you do it well enough, and/or it has a unique angle, you can make it work.

 

[HeyAll]

Post a sample of the dialogue so we can get an idea of what's going on.

 

[Fantasies_only]

Post a sample of the dialogue so we can get an idea of what's going on.

That can't be done on this site.
There is a rule about PMs and chat transcripts being private or for members only.
You must subscribe to see chats, and a private message is private.
If it was on the board it would be public for both members and non members.

If however you were given permission by each poster, you could display it here.
You could get around this rule by each poster posting his or her own parts in the transcript (I think that's been done before).

 

[jimd556]

Post a sample of the dialogue so we can get an idea of what's going on.

Two writers are already taking a crack at it, the results will be posted if they measure up.

 

[LindsayRae]

Well, Lit does have a Letters & Transcripts category. Letters is self explanitory, but the transcripts part is meant to be taken literally. I have no idea how popular those stories are or anything, but perhaps reading other ones at Lit will give you an idea?

 

[laceNlthrgrrl]

I recently read a novel with several chunks of IM convos in it. It wasn't all that difficult to read (easier than IM's with friends who insist on text-speak) and made sense within the story. Part of what made it easy was the layout.

PersonA: blah blah blah.

PersonB: yeah yeah yeah

Honestly, in some ways it was visually cleaner than traditional dialog, with all of the requisite "he said" stuff.

 

[KarlMartinK]

I don't think you are getting the idea. The IM's form the basic outline and the dialogue, the writer fleshes it out to a full story. I am not suggesting a story made up of only IM's.

If it was converted to an actual story and didn't look like it came from IM, then I think it would work.

 

[LindsayRae]

I don't think you are getting the idea. The IM's form the basic outline and the dialogue, the writer fleshes it out to a full story. I am not suggesting a story made up of only IM's.

Oops! I missed this post before I made mine. Of course one can totally flesh out a "full" story from an Instant Message conversation!! But, also, Lit does have the "Letters & Transcripts" category.