Has another member ever approached you to write a story for them?

[EmilyMiller]

This happened to me just recently. It was to write an “inspired by real events” story about something that happened to them,, something sexual obviously.

I’m not going to get into the details of their request, but did this ever happen to anyone else?

Em

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Yes. As with you, no details, but yes.

 

[Bazzle]

I've had a couple of interactions on Reddit with ideas that have lead to a couple of stories.

Always willing to have someone give me a muse to write stuff

 

[onehitwanda]

I've had a few requests in the past. My standard reply was to ask if they'd looked at my other stories, and if they really thought I was the writer they'd been looking for. None of them ever replied back again.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I've had a few requests in the past. My standard reply was to ask if they'd looked at my other stories, and if they really thought I was the writer they'd been looking for. None of them ever replied back again.

This guy said that he’d contacted me because he liked my stories .

Em

 

[KeithD]

I've received requests, yes. And such requests pop up occasionally here on the discussion board.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yes. I started writing to a scenario given to me, but lost interest very quickly because the woman the person wanted portrayed wasn't to my erotic taste at all. After a couple of thousand words the commissioner (no money involved) then wanted to direct the story, both plot and content, and I said, this is never going to work.

I have a vague feeling she (introduced herself as such, anyway) approached a few others here with the same request, but I've no idea how those efforts got on. I didn't keep any of the content. I don't know how writers can write erotica when the subject matter doesn't interest them, but there you are, people do it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Yes. I started writing to a scenario given to me, but lost interest very quickly because the woman the person wanted portrayed wasn't to my erotic taste at all. After a couple of thousand words the commissioner (no money involved) then wanted to direct the story, both plot and content, and I said, this is never going to work.

I have a vague feeling she (introduced herself as such, anyway) approached a few others here with the same request, but I've no idea how those efforts got on. I didn't keep any of the content. I don't know how writers can write erotica when the subject matter doesn't interest them, but there you are, people do it.

That sounds pretty difficult.

The guy has really only given me some details and had said he’s happy for me to “fill in the blanks”. Let’s hope so.

No money involved either.

Em

 

[KeithD]

I tell them up front that I'm just taking their scenario as inspiration and it will go where it goes and will be my story, if I write.

 

[Voboy]

Yep. I’ve done it a couple times, both with good results.
Other times, I‘ve charged. Also with good results.

 

[Djmac1031]

I had a guy email me awhile back asking if I could write a fantasy story about his wife banging a bunch of other guys.

I told him it would be impossible for ME to write a fantasy that would fit his needs without knowing anything about either of them, but suggested that, if he could write the story, or at least the outline of what he wanted to happen, I could give it a shot.

He wound up sending me a story. It was definitely not the kind of thing I'd normally write. But I figured it could be a fun challenge.

His story was very amateurish in the writing itself. He fully understood his limits as a writer so obviously I didn't critique him on it.

What I wound up doing was basically rewriting the thing, improving the grammar, sentence structure, punctuation, etc.

Also fleshed out details, extended sex scenes, added more colorful language, more vivid descriptions.

Changed his dialog only minimally, to make it sound more natural, despite my own personal opinion that most people didn't talk like these characters during sex. It was, after all, HIS fantasy, not mine.

I don't know if he ever published the thing. Or what kind of response it may have gotten.

It was a fun writing challenge, but not one I'd do often.

 

[MrPixel]

I was approached via the conversation channel a couple of times last year. I didn't respond to either inquiry because the requests sounded a little sketchy, like these individuals were shopping around hoping to "hit" on a currently-active author who might do their bidding.

I thought it particularly odd since my stories are low-profile/low-readership shoulder-shrugs that I only publish because there may be somebody out there who might appreciate my musings to myself.

 

[RunningJib]

Yes.

Mostly, they wanted a very specific story with highly detailed features. What's the fun it that?

On the other side, they typically didn't provide any return for your effort.

 

[NoTalentHack]

Yes. He had one very specific story idea that I told him I couldn't help him with (a kink that I don't feel I'd write well and wouldn't enjoy trying to write), and another that was more freeform that I'm going to turn into something.

He was very pleasant, and very detailed on the first one. I told him he should write it, given his thorough notes, but he didn't feel his English was good enough.

 

[Emilymcplugger]

This happened to me just recently. It was to write an “inspired by real events” story about something that happened to them,, something sexual obviously.

I’m not going to get into the details of their request, but did this ever happen to anyone else?

Em

Sort of, but not.

I had an idea for a sequel to a story, approached the author who gave me permission to write aa long as I acknowledged and respected that these were his characters.

The rest, as they say, is history.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Two ways this can swing.

If they want me to write a story for them to publish under their own name, then they get control of all the details and I get money. Firm deal, no exceptions.

If on the other hand they just want me to write a story for them under my own name, then there's no fee and I'm willing (generally insistent) on working with them. I will generally have a bunch of questions, all starting off with, "Don't tell me about you, but what does your main character look like? What's their profession? What foods and drinks do they like? Hobbies?" And so forth - I get a pile of data corresponding to what they want in a story. I often go so far as to ask them to go online and find a photo of somebody they think looks like their main character. All of this makes it easier for me to tailor the tale to suit their wishes and it's no real trouble for me.

 

[SimonDoom]

I've had several readers (and at least one author I can think of) approach me about writing stories. Two of my published exhibitionist stories were written at the request of readers and based loosely on the information they provided about themselves. In both cases, I greatly enjoyed writing the stories and the Lit members were also very happy with the results. It can be fun to do this AS LONG AS you are totally on board artistically with the task and it fits with your own creative purposes. I won't write something for someone else unless I feel like it is MY story. The one thing I don't like about doing this is the feeling of extra pressure that I need to keep writing for someone else. I'm an undisciplined writer who likes to do things at my own pace, and nobody is paying me anything, and it makes me anxious to feel like I have to stay on track to satisfy someone else's expectations about publication.

 

[Bazzle]

If someone has the same kink, or idea about the same kink, then it works well.
I know my fetish writing is not enjoyed by the majority. But there are minority that like it?
The difficulty comes in when I want the character to do things that the ideas person doesn't?
Or go further than I am willing to write.
My sliding down the bank story was written at the suggestion on someone on Reddit, they really wanted certain things that I was not comfortable writing.
But I wrote what I was happy with and they got their story.
Art is difficult everyone has their own ideas.
Fetish is impossible because everyone has their own kink!
B

 

[PennameWombat]

My 'Mermaid' stories stemmed from a request here. The characters in the first story, as the Foreword states, came explicitly from the request. Beyond that, it was not a perfect mesh between my style and what the asker really wanted. The second one (same universe but not a direct sequel) I wrote and its direction was my view and veered significantly.

Not that I get many requests, but I would be a bit firmer about my vision lining up the asker's before accepting. IMHO, I wrote solid enough stories, both get good scores (especially the second one), but I didn't quite fulfill all of the asker's requests.

 

[Rustyoznail]

I've had a few. The first time was from a writer who I edited a few stories for. She suggested it would be interesting if I wrote a story using her characters. That seemed like a good idea, so my "Cricket Anyone?" came to life.

Another was a request for a "siblings caught by mom" story. That triggered an idea with twins, which did quite well.

Another idea proposed by someone else was just no. I could not conceive an idea around what he wanted.

Short answer is, I'll listen to your idea but don't get upset if I don't do anything with it.

 

[Defluer]

Yup, a few of them over the years. A couple I just ignored because they seemed scammy to me. The others I responded to with the truth, I literally have no power over what stories that I can write/finish so there is no way I'd ever take on some outside suggestion that one comment along the way might ruin my steam, if I ever got it up and running. I think I even put it into my profile that I don't do that, because I feel like a jerk saying, "Never gonna happen."

There is a comment somebody made once on one of my stories that has a spot in my head that I really want to make into a story one day, that's as close as I've gotten.

 

[Andrew1968]

I have had a few people approach me. One guy, who I won't name, wanted me to write a hot-wife/cuckold type story for him. The only problem was the fact that he had been asking a lot of writers to write something like that for him and there were all these stories about this guy and his wife. I didn't want to add to the collection. I was exchanging a couple of messages with someone who wanted me to write a hot-wife/cuckold story for him. He offered to send me a photo of his wife. That was helpful, but I needed so much more info, particularly about the personalities/character of the people involved and I never heard another word from him - appearance is important, but personality/character are just as important, in my view. I finally wrote a story for someone just recently. It was an enjoyable process for me. She gave me plenty of info around the characters. She gave me a plot. The story just took off. She seemed to really like it. She was constantly checking in to see how I was going. That was quite good as it pushed me to get the thing done.

 

[Defluer]

That was quite good as it pushed me to get the thing done.

Part of me says that that would be the bonus of accepting something like this. That I'd have a deadline or somebody waiting for the finished product and might surprise myself by delivering. Might change my crappy track record of starting stories only to abandon them. But... It will probably just be stress I don't need in my hobby that is supposed to be fun and a release, that I already get from work and life in general.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Well, among my bespoke tales are, two mermaid stories (one of which involved coersion, but only a side-order, so to speak. There was a tale from a woman with a very full bosom who wanted a tale of teen (18+) romance ending short of intercourse. There was a woman with a CMNF fantasy. There are others, I'm pretty confident I've generally dodged writing revenge stories.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I have had a few people approach me. One guy, who I won't name, wanted me to write a hot-wife/cuckold type story for him. The only problem was the fact that he had been asking a lot of writers to write something like that for him and there were all these stories about this guy and his wife. I didn't want to add to the collection. I was exchanging a couple of messages with someone who wanted me to write a hot-wife/cuckold story for him. He offered to send me a photo of his wife. That was helpful, but I needed so much more info, particularly about the personalities/character of the people involved and I never heard another word from him - appearance is important, but personality/character are just as important, in my view. I finally wrote a story for someone just recently. It was an enjoyable process for me. She gave me plenty of info around the characters. She gave me a plot. The story just took off. She seemed to really like it. She was constantly checking in to see how I was going. That was quite good as it pushed me to get the thing done.

I think I’d struggle to write something I wasn’t in to myself. I guess that’s me being a limited writer.

Em