Have You Ever Been Too Personal?

[Wantonica]

I am curious ... have any of you ever written a story that was so personal to you that you chose not to share it? Not due to writing about yourself specifically, but just the thoughts of yourself and a special person? I recently wrote a story that was grand, but held extreme connotations and thoughts, and I can't let it go public ...

Wantonica

 

[gauchecritic]

Do you mean the person it's about might find out? Or do you mean it's just too filthyand perverted?

Forget those questions.

Many many authors here on Lit. when asked why they write will reply in a couple of ways. One is because they need to. Did you need to?

The other is that they write for their own pleasure.

I can well imagine that there are lots of writers on Lit. that feel as though this story is just too special, that it's for them alone.

I say post it. There's only you that's you. No one can take away anything that you feel about your work. Why not give someone else a little enjoyment for whatever it's worth.

"So take the photographs and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth it was worth all the while.
I hope you had the time of your life." :GreenDay

I've never written one I couldn't post.

Gauche

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Me, being thouroughly perverted, I do it for the money!

 

[MathGirl]

Me, being thouroughly perverted, I do it for the money!

Dear Svenska,
If you do it for the money you get on here, you must have a hard time making ends meet.
MG

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Yes...

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

No,
I'd submit it, no one is going to know how personal it is unless you tell them. As far as readers are concerned it's all made up unless you the author tell them otherwise.

Wicked

 

[Wantonica]

I can well imagine that there are lots of writers on Lit. that feel as though this story is just too special, that it's for them alone.

I say post it. There's only you that's you. No one can take away anything that you feel about your work. Why not give someone else a little enjoyment for whatever it's worth.

Gauche

You were correct in the observation above; I am feeling this way because the story feels too special to me. Normally, I make up my stories and characters, but in this case, wrote about a real incident with a few minor changes. No one would ever know that (until now ... ), however, it feels like putting something personal out on display.

Thanks Gauche, I'll put it up as soon as it's finished.

Smiles,
Wantonica

 

[Wantonica]

Wicked,

Thanks to you too ... I was wondering if any other people have ever fought with these feelings? It's never happened to me before.

Happy day,
Wantonica

 

[Quint]

I'm never going to share any of the poetry that I write on Lit. I've written some for the forum before, but nothing that comes directly out of my soul like that will end up here. It's a stepping-stone that I'm going to have to get over--after all, I am rather hoping to careerize my verbosity someday, and I can't say "well, only the people that I deem worthy may purchase this book of heartfelt poetry." But for now? Nothing doing.

In other words, I understand your feelings.

 

[pop_54]

Hmmmmmmmm

Some of my stories are very personal, I suppose half of my crud is 60 - 70 percent factual, the other half ranges from a bit of fact to pure fiction.

One story did get held in the files for a while, I was of two minds about posting it here, but gave in and did so in the end, hell why did I write it if I didn't want anyone else to read it.

Up to you to decide, but if nobody other than you can tell how personal and or true it is, why worry, post it and be damned.

pops...............

 

[destinie21]

Yes some stories that I've written whether they be based on a true story or the actual real deal are to personal. not that my fantasies aren't personal mind you. But the stories I choose not to submit are tetherd to me by some sort of emotional umbilical
cord if you will. Just like some of the art that I do (oil paints and watercolors being my mediums of choice) Is to personal or emotional to put on display for the masses. I don't mind having my opions and the like put forth to be judged, congratulated condemed or appreciate but my heart, that's a whole different story.



I've locked myself in a dungeon, and I cannot find the key. And I suspect if the door were open I'd be half afraid to walk out.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Some of my poems are very personal. However, most are completely cerebral and in some level designed for a particular effect. I doubt anyone can extricate the two or three personally painful poems from the rest.

Poets feign and conceal
So completely feign and pretend
That the pain which they really feel
They'll feign for you in the end.

Same thing goes for stories. I don't have any submited to Lit (most are in Portuguese, for now), but if amidst so much made up stuff pops a true story, who's going to know?

 

[Gabriel_Lee]

Some stuff I write is very personal; not in the true-real-life-this-really-happened sense, but in the this-is-saying-something-about-me sense. Sometimes, especially when I am not too sure exactly what it is saying, I do not want to release it. Not never, but just not until I understand what it is about a bit more. Then, of course, I may still not want to release it, but I will know why.

GL

 

[Bluepoke]

hi

 

[Wantonica]

But the stories I choose not to submit are tetherd to me by some sort of emotional umbilical cord if you will.

That was exactly my point when starting the thread. Some stories just spit right out, and others are akin to giving birth.

Thanks to all of you for your responses; it is good to know I'm not the only one with these feelings.

Happy day,
Wantonica