Fiction Within Your Fiction

[RetroFan]

Within your works on Literotica site, have you ever written a story where the characters watch a movie or TV show or read a book that you also made up as part of the story?

For example, in my story 'Cute Celebrity Chloe Comes To Stay' titular character Chloe Connors is an 18-year-old actress who stars in an Australian soap opera called 'Sea Breeze', but like Chloe the TV show Sea Breeze does not exist, I created it for the story.

Another example is 'The Mystery of Melissa', in which the narrator Nathan as a child watched an Australian children's television block called 'Don't Sleep In On Saturday' and had a crush on one of the presenters Melissa, being most disappointed when she leaves the show and vanishes into obscurity. Many years later the now grown up Nathan is a high school teacher and has a conference with the mother of one of his students, whose name just happens to be Melissa ... One of the comments I got on this story was that the reader had run a Google search on it to see if it was real or not, but 'Don't Sleep In On Saturday' is a fictional show within a fictional story.

More recently, in my story 'Body Swap With Sister's Boyfriend' two characters watch a crime thriller movie called 'Rise of the Jersey Devil' but this movie does not exist, I invented it for the story.

I would be interested to hear if any other authors have done this in their works.

 

[SimonDoom]

I did this in my story Late Night on the Loveseat with Mom, an (obviously) incest story.

Mom, dad, and son sit down to watch their favorite TV show. Dad's drunk in a chair; mom and son are squeezed together on the loveseat. The TV show is Angel City Detective, a detective show featuring a hot blond lead who somewhat resembles mom. Steamy things happen on the show, partly contributing to the steamy things that happen between mom and son in the story. The running of the show happens simultaneously with the events of the story, and the story wraps up with the TV show credits rolling.

I thought the device worked well for that story.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I would be interested to hear if any other authors have done this in their works.

I have a fictitious street directory for the city in which I base many of my stories, where the geography is altered and street names don't exist. I picture the exact street and the exact location when I write, but vague it up by naming it something else.

Any cultural references though, will always be to real books, real films, real works of art.

I have just started a story where the real inspiration for a fictional character in a recent story cycle fictitiously recognises herself when reading that story, and contacts the author (me) who is also now fictitious, and they meet, thus becoming protagonists within another story.

 

[AwkwardMD]

https://literotica.com/s/lafayette-hills

My most recent story is about an eccentric young writer who is seduced by an older woman, and one entire scene is an excerpt of the writers story. It's fantasy in the style of Arthurian legends, and it's there to give insight into how she sees the people around her.

 

[ThisNameIsntTakenYet]

I don't use it very often, and when I do I usually keep it vague. Like saying she read "a sappy romance story featuring a cheerleader and a bodybuilder" or whatever. So far it's just been some minor details for the setting, but the idea of actually including a fictional book, show or movie would be interesting indeed. I might experiment with that at some point, thanks for the idea.

 

[SolarRay]

I think this is a fun idea and I tried it on my recent story, "A Nude Troubadours Production." The story is about a struggling theatre grad who joins an all-nude production company. In the story, the characters are performing a Shakespeare play called "Three Gypsies of Bracciano" which, of course, does not really exist. I'm not unfamiliar with Shakespeare but I had to do some additional research and read some snippets of real plays to get a refresher on the language and get into the vibe of his narratives. Then I made up the plot and worked out just enough detail to make it sound plausible. Added an interesting new dimension to the writing process.

 

[NotWise]

In my Valentine's Day Mess series, Manny and Claudia tell each other stories from their shared ancestral memory as they seek the root of spiritual power. Not a book, movie or TV show, but fictions within a fiction, anyway.

They start by telling each other about their parents who they didn't know (story placed in El Salvador's civil war), then two about their maternal grandmother, then about their paternal great-grandmother (who's story from 1932 was based on the US/El Salvadoran attempt to exterminate the Pipil people). It went from there to a ranch at the beginning of the 19th century, then to Spain in about 1546. Their next story will be at about 1,000 CE, and their last at about 0 CE.

 

[oggbashan]

I did this twice in my parody that is the first episode of The Worst Chain Story Ever:

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-worst-chain-story-ever-ch-01

 

[Voboy]

I made up a Facebook analog called Pixboox.com for a story I wrote some time ago. It's come in handy since then. Whenever my characters need to do anything kinky online, Pixboox is where they do it. My women all do their underwear shopping at Secret Whispers, too. I actually had an email once from a reader asking me if that was some sort of regional chain, because in my stories they seem to have everything on sale frequently.

 

[BelleCanzuto]

I think this is a fun idea and I tried it on my recent story, "A Nude Troubadours Production." The story is about a struggling theatre grad who joins an all-nude production company. In the story, the characters are performing a Shakespeare play called "Three Gypsies of Bracciano" which, of course, does not really exist. I'm not unfamiliar with Shakespeare but I had to do some additional research and read some snippets of real plays to get a refresher on the language and get into the vibe of his narratives. Then I made up the plot and worked out just enough detail to make it sound plausible. Added an interesting new dimension to the writing process.

When I read your story, I thought the plot of your made up play sounded very plausible as a Shakespearean RomCom. The part I liked the best was the spontaneous spoofing of Shakespearean dialogue by your main characters in the build up to the sex scene. Which is to say, imho, your research paid off, and increased my enjoyment of the story.

 

[LoquiSordidaAdMe]

I wrote a song for my current work-in-progress. Does that count?

 

[ChuckWolf]

I wrote a song for my current work-in-progress. Does that count?

A story I'm working on involves an 80's actress at a TV convention, hooking up with a younger male fan in cosplay (from a sci-fi TV show she had guest-starred in as a wicked villainess).

In the story, a couple of fictitious TV shows/movies that she appeared in are referenced.

 

[WoolyWorm]

For my forthcoming series, I'm writing a "bonus" chapter, which is a transcript of an interview with one of my characters for a fictitious podcast.

I thought it would be a semi-creative way to info-dump some background material that people can read if they want, but without clogging up the main narrative.

That same series will mention several fake porn videos, a fake porn production company and website, a couple of fake mainstream movies, and a fake TV series.

It's fun to come up with ridiculous but still-plausible titles.

 

[KeithD]

Yes, I put stories within stories, I have paintings and videos reflecting the action of the story, and I even use my own previously published books as relevant props in stories.

 

[Voboy]

A story I'm working on involves an 80's actress at a TV convention, hooking up with a younger male fan in cosplay (from a sci-fi TV show she had guest-starred in as a wicked villainess).

In the story, a couple if fictitious TV shows/movies that she appeared in are referenced.

Use Fox Force Five. I dare you.

 

[ThisNameIsntTakenYet]

That same series will mention several fake porn videos, a fake porn production company and website, a couple of fake mainstream movies, and a fake TV series.

It's fun to come up with ridiculous but still-plausible titles.

Make sure you do some thorough research on those names, you'd be surprised what names for sites/companies actually exist in the porn world. Even if you think it's completely ridiculous, there's a non-zero chance someone also thought of it but considered it brilliant and actually registered that name for something. The porn industry is weird.

 

[Jada59]

Yes. I was reading a book in one of my stories.

 

[ChuckWolf]

Use Fox Force Five. I dare you.

Nah. The actress is kind of a hyper-sexualized version of Joyce DeWitt (Played Janet on Three's Company), with a little bit of Markie Post & other 80's actresses thrown in.

She had been the 3rd lead on a Three's Company-type show, but also occasionally took on the role of a space-villainess on Tony Future (that's the placeholder name for now) kind of like Julie Newmar & Pamela Hensley (she was on the 80's Buck Rogers TV show).

 

[Voboy]

I like "Tony Future" a lot. It sounds real, but failed. As it should.

 

[SolarRay]

When I read your story, I thought the plot of your made up play sounded very plausible as a Shakespearean RomCom. The part I liked the best was the spontaneous spoofing of Shakespearean dialogue by your main characters in the build up to the sex scene. Which is to say, imho, your research paid off, and increased my enjoyment of the story.

Thanks Belle!

 

[ChuckWolf]

I like "Tony Future" a lot. It sounds real, but failed. As it should.

Thanks!

Maybe I'll keep that then.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Within your works on Literotica site, have you ever written a story where the characters watch a movie or TV show or read a book that you also made up as part of the story?

Years and years back, a friend and I had a joke going about a comedy movie called "Cardinals". Two guys with the same name, one a hard-living baseball player, the other a Catholic priest; due to a communications snafu, the priest gets recruited to the St. Louis Cardinals and the baseballer is appointed a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. Hilarity ensues.

I referenced that in one of my stories, as a film two of the characters are watching. I've also featured a fictional painting by Alphonse Mucha. In both cases I mixed them in with real works.

 

[SamScribble]

A while back, I wrote a short story based around a fictional novel. In the course of the story, I also mentioned a '60s musical hit of the same name. A month or so after the story was published, I got a note from a reader (via the publisher) saying that he had managed to track down the song, but he couldn't find the book. Had I got the title wrong, perhaps?

 

[KeithD]

A while back, I wrote a short story based around a fictional novel. In the course of the story, I also mentioned a '60s musical hit of the same name. A month or so after the story was published, I got a note from a reader (via the publisher) saying that he had managed to track down the song, but he couldn't find the book. Had I got the title wrong, perhaps?

Sounds like a series of mainstream novels I wrote with a Mediterranean island setting. I put a real building in it, an ancient, multistory mill that was set into a hillside above a mountain stream. In real life there is a restaurant at the top and the owner is contemplating putting a boutique hotel in the four stories below it--contemplating it, still hasn't done it. I made it a boutique hotel in my novel series and after that came out he complained to me that people were calling the restaurant and trying to book in the hotel.

 

[SamScribble]

I made it a boutique hotel in my novel series and after that came out he complained to me that people were calling the restaurant and trying to book in the hotel.

Ha ha ha. I love it!