First story -- Dealing with emotional feedback

[Carnal_Flower]

It also aches with the distinct echoing prose of Literotica's Incest Stories. In other words, it's highly fanciful. There is great reason to doubt it's true.

We need a Confessional category. This girl's story aches with a terrible truth and she is clearly purging demons. She is not writing to arouse or titillate, and it's not fluffy fantasy.

All I hope, for her sake, is that writing this (very powerful piece) has helped her. What readers and writers may think is secondary, I think. She's written for herself, not them. It's as honest a bit of writing as I've ever seen. Powerful and heart breaking.

 

[NicoleZ]

There is great reason to doubt it's true.

Do you know this for a fact or are you just being your usual charming self here? I hope that when you sober up you immediately, profusely and sincerely apologise to Mistakenconfidence for such an abominable and heartless accusation.

Shame!

 

[mistakenconfidence]

No apology is necessary. Honestly it doesn't really matter if it's truth, fiction, or anything inbetween to anyone but myself. Perhaps it's actually better if people do view it as fiction, who knows.

Either way is perfectly acceptable to me, and I truly mean that. Neither outcome has any bearing on why I wrote the story in the first place, so what difference does it make?

Thank you all again for the insight and the constructive feedback. You truly have helped me through a difficult time. I think I'll continue writing under a different name for future stories, so I'll be seeing you guys around under this name or another

 

[Carnal_Flower]

No, how could I know it for a fact?

To be honest, I was suspicious from the beginning, but it was when I got to the anal rape scene at the end that it was really blown for me. It was simply too much like a lit story with the obligatory big finish.

There are a lot of incest fantasists out there. And a lot of people have posted fake true stories in incest. And I've had a lot of people contact me with "true" stories that aren't. A kind of rule of thumb is if it comes with astounding detail and reads and sounds exactly like a work of erotic fiction on this site, it's to be doubted.

If it is true, if this is a tale of abuse, it's unclear what the point is. I found the tone extremely ambivalent. The acts were horrible, but her reaction wasn't. It was factual, toneless. The repugnance has come mainly from only some readers; she does not want sympathy or tears, so . . .? Is doubt such a horrible reaction?

If it is true, maybe it was part of her therapy to reshape and recast her experience as if it all happened like a lit incest story unfolds, complete with "quivering breath." Maybe that was the point, idk.

We're not therapists. If I was her therapist or a cop taking a statement, it would be a very very different set of circumstances; but she's approached us as writers for her story, or her tale, as she calls it.

My writerly reaction is that it was too much like a fictional tale to be believable, but that it was an excellent work of written fiction, if not to my taste content-wise

Do you know this for a fact or are you just being your usual charming self here? I hope that when you sober up you immediately, profusely and sincerely apologise to Mistakenconfidence for such an abominable and heartless accusation.

Shame!

 

[mistakenconfidence]

If it is true, if this is a tale of abuse, it's unclear what the point is.

I honestly wish I could tell you. I'm trying to figure that out myself.

 

[plesmore]

No, how could I know it for a fact?

To be honest, I was suspicious from the beginning, but it was when I got to the anal rape scene at the end that it was really blown for me. It was simply too much like a lit story with the obligatory big finish.

There are a lot of incest fantasists out there. And a lot of people have posted fake true stories in incest. And I've had a lot of people contact me with "true" stories that aren't. A kind of rule of thumb is if it comes with astounding detail and reads and sounds exactly like a work of erotic fiction on this site, it's to be doubted.

If it is true, if this is a tale of abuse, it's unclear what the point is. I found the tone extremely ambivalent. The acts were horrible, but her reaction wasn't. It was factual, toneless. The repugnance has come mainly from only some readers; she does not want sympathy or tears, so . . .? Is doubt such a horrible reaction?

If it is true, maybe it was part of her therapy to reshape and recast her experience as if it all happened like a lit incest story unfolds, complete with "quivering breath." Maybe that was the point, idk.

We're not therapists. If I was her therapist or a cop taking a statement, it would be a very very different set of circumstances; but she's approached us as writers for her story, or her tale, as she calls it.

My writerly reaction is that it was too much like a fictional tale to be believable, but that it was an excellent work of written fiction, if not to my taste content-wise

It really does not matter if the story is true or not. This clearly is not a story of incest. However, isn't it the function of any story to reach out and connect with the reader? If one has experienced abuse, this may not be their story, but they will relate to the content from their own experience. If one has not experienced abuse the description,even if embellished, should move one to empathy.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

To be honest, I feel discussion of this story and these comments should be transferred over to NC Readers. That's really what it's all about. And I have zero real input into that.

It really does not matter if the story is true or not. This clearly is not a story of incest. However, isn't it the function of any story to reach out and connect with the reader? If one has experienced abuse, this may not be their story, but they will relate to the content from their own experience. If one has not experienced abuse the description,even if embellished, should move one to empathy.

 

[plesmore]

To be honest, I feel discussion of this story and these comments should be transferred over to NC Readers. That's really what it's all about. And I have zero real input into that.

Leaving this whole thing

- what type of story have you not had an opportunity to explore yet?

 

[CyranoJ]

I was going to let this pass, but it's just too much:

We agree and would go even further; they aren't that rare, they're hidden because of the stigma that exists because of the non-consensual.

Speaking of people trying to normalize incest by romanticizing it? That old chestnut right there is a dead giveaway. Yes, there's all this totally healthy incest happening out there for really reals that somehow never turns up in the vast body of research on incest because of "stigma." That's the ticket. Too bad OP, maybe if you were born under a different star you wouldn't have missed out on this mythical bonanza of sweet-natured and unproblematic incestuous romance.

It's incredibly fucking ballsy of you to serve up that bullshit and then have the utter nerve to affect sympathy while saying this to the OP:

Anyone that's experienced it is likely to avoid and it almost feeds the offenders.

I mean really. Yes, brave of you to share but let's subtly hint that your sharing "feeds" people like the one who allegedly abused you. That's twisted logic at best, but it's even worse if you did in fact believe the claim that this is an account based on real-life experience, which is the apparent premise of that post.

 

[NicoleZ]

No, how could I know it for a fact?

To be honest, I was suspicious from the beginning, but it was when I got to the anal rape scene at the end that it was really blown for me. It was simply too much like a lit story with the obligatory big finish.

There are a lot of incest fantasists out there. And a lot of people have posted fake true stories in incest. And I've had a lot of people contact me with "true" stories that aren't. A kind of rule of thumb is if it comes with astounding detail and reads and sounds exactly like a work of erotic fiction on this site, it's to be doubted.

If it is true, if this is a tale of abuse, it's unclear what the point is. I found the tone extremely ambivalent. The acts were horrible, but her reaction wasn't. It was factual, toneless. The repugnance has come mainly from only some readers; she does not want sympathy or tears, so . . .? Is doubt such a horrible reaction?

If it is true, maybe it was part of her therapy to reshape and recast her experience as if it all happened like a lit incest story unfolds, complete with "quivering breath." Maybe that was the point, idk.

We're not therapists. If I was her therapist or a cop taking a statement, it would be a very very different set of circumstances; but she's approached us as writers for her story, or her tale, as she calls it.

My writerly reaction is that it was too much like a fictional tale to be believable, but that it was an excellent work of written fiction, if not to my taste content-wise

Since you made an honest, explanatory reply I will respond in kind. The first thing that I need to mention is that the emotional detachment you noticed - "factual, toneless" - is a defensive mechanism. When it's happening and you're unable to prevent it any longer, you sort of disengage and become an observer and that stays with you for a very long time. To you, that was a sign indicating that it could be fiction. To me, it's a sign of authenticity.

The second thing I'd like to ask you is whether or not it is so very surprising that the first story of someone who has confessed that she has read a lot of Lit stories borrows much of the style and elements?