Do You Have A Hidden Folder?

[gordo12]

A folder containing stories that will never see the light of day? Stories that are sooo far out there...?

Demented, outlandish, illegal or otherwise something you'd never want anybody to ever see?

Stories that will have the police knocking at your door!

Confession: I do. About 8 of them. That there are squirrels running loose in my head is a given. Sometimes they take too much liberty. I blame them entirely.

A secret folder. Locked and passworded so nobody will ever...!

Do you?

 

[KeithD]

No. Close, but no banana.

 

[TxRad]

Nope. I have a lot of folders but none are hidden, or locked, or have a password.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Other than a few personalised oddities written by request, no - and from what I gather about other sites (that I rarely looked at, and years ago), nothing that wouldn't fly someplace else.

You're just a deviated prevert, Gordo, accept it .

 

[gordo12]

Other than a few personalised oddities written by request, no - and from what I gather about other sites (that I rarely looked at, and years ago), nothing that wouldn't fly someplace else.

You're just a deviated prevert, Gordo, accept it .

Well yeah, I accept that, but I'm thinking there's too much innocence here. We may need a lie detector

 

[litfan10]

Throughout the years I've amassed a file cabinet full of loose threads, stalled research, vague plotlines and plot bunnies galore.
It's not hidden; it's over there, that clunky metal file cabinet amongst the other file cabinets in the office.
It's not locked, the plot bunnies are free to hop hither and thither.
As long as they clean up after themselves.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have a few scenes I wrote that after thinking on it-or my editor asking me if I'm fucking kidding-I removed from the finished product.

Most of these are more violent than any type of cringe worthy sex/fetishes, However, there is something I wrote a few years ago that I have no idea what was going through my head at the time, and still don't.

I crack it open once in awhile as a reminder that just because something slinks out from the most depraved broken part of my psyche, it does not have to be put to written word.

But its not hidden, its titled "fragments'. Nothing on my computer is hidden. My wife knows I'm a perv and my daughters long since left the roost.

 

[lovecraft68]

Well yeah, I accept that, but I'm thinking there's too much innocence here. We may need a lie detector

I got a sneak peek into your 'folder' recently

 

[Emirus]

I don’t have a secret folder containing draft stories which will never see the light of day, because of their subject matter, but I do have both draft and submitted stories in which I’ve had to curb my enthusiasm and imagination.

I had to alter a story to show a rape victim enjoyed being raped, which is ridiculous, in order to get it published. I’ve had two stories, originally rejected, published after I convinced Laurel the offending parts were essential for the plot. I would never write a story which I would personally find distasteful if written by another writer. There will be sites willing to publish such stories but they’re not for me.

 

[oggbashan]

I still have a draft of my first ever erotic story, originally written on a single 360k floppy IBM XT. It was started long before I found Literotica and before my first stories were published on Yahoo Adult groups.

It could never have been published on Literotica because the first few thousand words were about the main character's sexual abuse as a child and his later efforts as an adult to establish himself as a respected member of his village.

I have used parts of it for later stories but the revised draft will never be published, partly because of its content, and partly because I have lost the original version on a 360K floppy that became corrupted. The revision was a mistake. The original was much better, but it is now on CD, three PCs' hard drives and two memory sticks - where it will stay.

Even if I decided to revise it yet again to make it suitable for Literotica, I am not the same person who wrote that story. I would find it difficult, if not impossible, to go back twenty odd years as a writer.

 

[KeithD]

The Internet, under various pen names, not my computer files, is my secret folder.

 

[Panty Wrangler]

Nope. I do have a folder I use for drafts, but it's not exactly hidden.

 

[JuanaSalsa]

I have a secret folder, it's inside my head.

Certainly there are things inside my head that would fit all the criteria you describe. That's why it's inside my head, and not outside.

I had to edit my first story I tried to publish here, Gio's Freedom, to fit within Lit guidelines and that was pretty mild by the standards of my imagination. Apparently it had gratuitous violence. I thought the violence was a key part of my character's growth and a driving factor that made him risk his life for something better, but you know, it was too much I guess.

Now that I know the rules of posting here, I don't write things that wouldn't work here. I suppose I could write those things for some other place, but at the moment I have plenty of material to write that fits within Lit standards so I don't feel the need. The stuff in my head will keep, no matter if I write it or not.

 

[SamScribble]

I have (or don't have) a couple of lost folders. Do they count?

 

[SimonDoom]

No. I expect all my perversity will eventually see the light of day. And the world will be better for it.

 

[gordo12]

I got a sneak peek into your 'folder' recently

Yeah, that was the kindergarten stuff. The rest is...but we don't need to talk about the actual content. Just whether or not you're hiding stuff.

I still have a draft of my first ever erotic story, originally written on a single 360k floppy IBM XT.

That brings back fond memories. Coded my first software on the XT around 86-87. Cost damn near 7k and really did nothing.

The Internet, under various pen names, not my computer files, is my secret folder.

I knew it. There was more to that banana than you'd confessed!

No. I expect all my perversity will eventually see the light of day. And the world will be better for it.

You, of everybody here, are the most accepting of out there material. Your penis fish and the talk of Hucows would qualify in my opinion.

 

[gordo12]

I have (or don't have) a couple of lost folders. Do they count?

Only if you were purging the contents before the cops walked in.

 

[SimonDoom]

You have to read my next story. It's almost done. It makes me laugh as I write it. Totally nuts.

 

[HeyAll]

All my stuff is in Google Docs. If I scrolled down, I have a bunch of unfinished stories and older stories that need to be reedited.

 

[oggbashan]

After losing the original draft of my first story, I have hundreds of files of drafts, completed works, possible stories. all duplicated on three computers and CDs. I'm obsessive about keeping written pieces even if they went nowhere.

But NONE of them has been uploaded to the cloud or wherever, only my completed works on Literotica (and copied by dozens of people).

 

[jsmiam]

Two topic at hand here, how paranoid are we at hiding any of what we do, and what do we do if a story finds itself beyond our comfort zone.

I’m about an 4.69 score on paranoia. I use various technologies to prevent snooping and more on point, so the relatives who come to sort through my things after I die won’t find them.

And I have a “story ideas” file. Even if I never publish my weirder thoughts, the concept is still in that document, or in my head.

Good thoughtful thread though. Seems like there have been a lot of thought provoking threads lately.

 

[ScrappyPaperDoodler]

Don’t give anything away… The 5-0 might be reading this thread.

Personally, I’ve never written anything worth hiding and not for lack of trying. Do I have a few things I’d never publish? Sure. I’ve taken a handful of commissions in the last year and they tend to be more out there. Certainly nothing illegal. Then again, I don’t live in a country with obscenity laws against fiction, so I’d have to try very hard to fall afoul of the law.

I wouldn’t put anything on a work computer, but my personal PC is brimming with smut and porn and Spice Girl songs I’m ashamed of listening to.

 

[rescatooor]

A little while ago I didn't even have a folder for them. They were just scattered around my documents folder. I can now proudly say that I'm a full-grown adult that has packed all that stuff into a neat little folder titled "fiction".

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Nope. And I have written all those stories that if true, could get me in trouble, yet as fiction are called mysteries.

 

[gordo12]

Two topic at hand here, how paranoid are we at hiding any of what we do, and what do we do if a story finds itself beyond our comfort zone.

I’m about an 4.69 score on paranoia. I use various technologies to prevent snooping and more on point, so the relatives who come to sort through my things after I die won’t find them.

And I have a “story ideas” file. Even if I never publish my weirder thoughts, the concept is still in that document, or in my head.

Good thoughtful thread though. Seems like there have been a lot of thought provoking threads lately.

If you're talking 4.69 out of 5 I'm on board. I've reached that age where people tend to drop dead suddenly and I don't want people eulogizing me with their fingers crossed. Most of my stories pass any kind of rating system. (except my daughters ewwwww, demon porn!) But there are a few. Although I was reading through Smashwords TOC yesterday and startled to discover a couple of them would be perfectly fine there. And even pass at some of their distributors. Go figure. Maybe I'm too harsh on myself.