Do You Have A Hidden Folder?

[Stillrandy]

Have very little published, but have several outlines I am too lazy to put in the effort to finish. Be that as it may.... I keep my personal salacious material on a SanDisk USB thumb drive that is password protected. And some material in MS Word files that are also password protected. My passwords are fairly complex so I feel reasonably protected.

 

[yowser]

My Secret Folder - Henry Spencer Ashbee - ISBN : 9780394173979

 

[oggbashan]

When I thought I was about to die soon, I emptied out my folder of longer drafts and posted them here as oggbashan Stew 1 to 4.

Since then, I have as many in what had been an empty folder...

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

No one in my life knows I write erotica. Finished and drafts alike are saved in a password protected OneDrive folder called 'Lit'.
Don't share my secret!

 

[_Lynn_]

No one else uses my computers. My adult kids know I write. In fact, my daughter used to post on Lit with me. When I'm gone, I doubt they'll read anything more than they do now . . . which is nothing. My siblings won't be allowed to go through whatever I leave behind. So why have a hidden folder? They'll end up in the trash somewhere anyway.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

My husband got me one of those drives and I love it. They are great at easing the mind if you're apt to misplace things.

I once thought I lost my basic thumb drive full of erotica at work. It was not password protected.

I've never been so happy to find a piece of technology in the washing machine. (It still worked too.)

Not really. The master copies are on a portable HDD, that's password protected, only because all my downloaded movies, anime, etc was too much for it Of course they're also copied on to a plain ass thumbdrive, and the laptop itself. I don't really have any stories to hide. Then all my recent stuff is on my phone, since using msword app is more convenient than the old writing laptop, with it's worn out keyboard, forever boot times, janky charger jack, saved on the sd card.

 

[VilHaMer]

Nope. I have a lot of unfinished stories (about 50 on the idea stage), but the reason they are still on the "drawing board" is that I haven't had time to write them, not that they're going too far.

That said, I have recently started writing that I used to think went too far, notably incest stories between blood-related family members. As they're just inventions of my own mind, they don't really go into the realm of illegality, and I have just discovered that there is indeed a "market" for such stories - here on Literotica.

 

[Tye_Ohm]

I have memories I have written down which, if looked upon in certain lights, would be considered unethical but they happened to me and I can't say I disliked them or that they caused me any harm. Nor are they in locked folders. They may be in obscure places on my PC or on paper in some real folder but easily discoverable.

None-the-less, every time I have tried to include them in stories I have removed them for fear of being considered that which created such memories.

Oh! I'm Tye, by the way. Hi! Hope you don't mind me jumping in amidst the fun here at the Authours Hangout.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

Not a folder but there is a group of stories in my Docs folder with DNP in front of the name. Some were co-author projects that the other writer abandoned. Some were my ideas that didn't flow well or were plain bad. Some are extended versions of published stories that I wrote long after I should have stopped.

I will admit sometimes I do take parts of them for use in other stories. No writing is wasted.

I recently found a file with my first stories from the late '90s all handwritten. I plan on typing them up eventually to see if I can use them or finish them or whatever.

 

[gordo12]

I have memories I have written down which, if looked upon in certain lights, would be considered unethical but they happened to me and I can't say I disliked them or that they caused me any harm. Nor are they in locked folders. They may be in obscure places on my PC or on paper in some real folder but easily discoverable.

None-the-less, every time I have tried to include them in stories I have removed them for fear of being considered that which created such memories.

Oh! I'm Tye, by the way. Hi! Hope you don't mind me jumping in amidst the fun here at the Authours Hangout.

Welcome!

Edit: I was going to respond to another post but decided not to and didn't delete it before posting. I removed it.

 

[RoperTrace]

On the Cloud

Two of my earliest stories were lost when an old PC crashed around the same time as my mother and father dying. It didn't seem like a big deal at that time, they were stored on old 3.5" floppies. When I finally bought a new laptop, floppy disk drives were no longer being offered. I've since moved my files onto the cloud @ Microsoft Onedrive, where it's password protected. At any rate, both of those stories were heavily non-consent and probably wouldn't pass muster today.

 

[Tye_Ohm]

That's what some of mine are like as well, though mine were definitely harmful and disliked. I wrote them at my therapist's direction. I'm still fearful of people not realizing they are memories rather than fantasies because the only way I could write them was in third person.

Apologies if I stirred those memories up again.
Third person would be the best way to distance those memories I should think, to get them out but I can definitely see your concern regarding other folk seeing them.

 

[RejectReality]

My sister is in charge of my stuff if I fucking snuff it. She knows what I write, so she knows to stay away from those folders, and go straight to snatching up my game and movie stuff. LOL

My brother might be techy enough to get into the PC without the password, but I don't think he'd bother. Nobody else would have the slightest clue.

So no need to hide anything.

 

[DCO_65]

No, but I have a collection of rejected stories (to include some very intense stories and a few CNC stories that I won't allow to be published as NC).

 

[DCO_65]

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

I have some files that I have forgotten the passwords to... Not really the same thing.

 

[Tye_Ohm]

Welcome!

Edit: I was going to respond to another post but decided not to and didn't delete it before posting. I removed it.

Thank you

No apologies necessary, but thank you for the gesture.

Third person definitely creates distance emotionally, but in some ways it makes the physical aspects more vivid. It's a weird thing to deal with. I think it makes me a better writer in some ways because I can easily switch between observer and participant.

Back to the topic at hand: yay password protected files!

Yay!