Issue with Autobiographies

[BlackSnake]

Have anyone know any issues with writing autobiographies of an erotic nature which include pillow talk?

 

[Vermilion]

Have anyone know any issues with writing autobiographies of an erotic nature which include pillow talk?

I should imagine (and this is supposition only) that if you're going to use real names, then you'd better be damn sure of your facts with, preferably, something to back your claims up, otherwise you could be on the receiving end of a brutal libel suit. Of course, it depends who you're naming and what you're saying about them...

I would be happy to be disabused of this notion, but doubt that I will.

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[Safe_Bet]

Have anyone know any issues with writing autobiographies of an erotic nature which include pillow talk?

I'm actually writing an autobio for NaNo. (that was fun to say! ). I'm using my hubby's real name cuz she can't say shit - if she ever want sex again, but for everyone else I changed their names just to be safe.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

We used to have a law here that penalized the truth if it caused people to lose esteem for the subject of the revelation. This was US Law, too, for a long time. But I think the law was nullified.

 

[Buzz]

Have anyone know any issues with writing autobiographies of an erotic nature which include pillow talk?

....and I thought that this had to do something with a car








okay okay..

 

[sr71plt]

If it's an autobiography about a life of masturbation, you would seem to be free and clear. To the extent that it involves anyone else, not so much.

 

[BlackSnake]

I've had a very exciting two years, which time I was away from Lit....better stuff than I could make up. It has ended in tragedy, but it's a tell that is worth telling to me at least.

I told a friend of mind that I wanted a whore. He brushed it off, but I said it again and again. A few days ago, he told be that I should have been careful of what I wished for....

The tragedy is the broken heart in the end, but what a ride, and I would like to capture it for all times.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Write it as a roman 'a clef.

Report all pillow talk verbatim, but attach different names to the people; Latoya can become Lateesha, jane can be Joanne, Mike can be Mark.

Famous strategy, that one!

Did she also break your wallet as well as your heart?

 

[BlackSnake]

Write it as a roman 'a clef.

Report all pillow talk verbatim, but attach different names to the people; Latoya can become Lateesha, jane can be Joanne, Mike can be Mark.

Famous strategy, that one!

Did she also break your wallet as well as your heart?

No, I gave her nothing really. I got everything that I had plus the hundreds of great photos that I don't think that I can share because she is really worried about them. I also have our new Pacifica and she still have her 1989 mini van that she had when we meet. She has mislead her family into thinking things that are not true, but that her family and I know that they know she is misleading them. I do miss her, but I wouldn't want to be married to her again. The sex and wild times were great. I do miss looking into her eyes and she always wear shades when we see each other now, because she knows that they just melt me.....lol My goodness....I have become so soft...lol I fucked this woman last night...really hard and it felt like nothing....ding....I wish no one a broken heart and marriage. I don't even pl.....shoot

I am talking about writing a story and what boundaries can't I cross. I do have photos to backup any of the claims that I have.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I dunno, dude but it's good to have you back.

 

[sr71plt]

No, I gave her nothing really. I got everything that I had plus the hundreds of great photos that I don't think that I can share because she is really worried about them. I also have our new Pacifica and she still have her 1989 mini van that she had when we meet. She has mislead her family into thinking things that are not true, but that her family and I know that they know she is misleading them. I do miss her, but I wouldn't want to be married to her again. The sex and wild times were great. I do miss looking into her eyes and she always wear shades when we see each other now, because she knows that they just melt me.....lol My goodness....I have become so soft...lol I fucked this woman last night...really hard and it felt like nothing....ding....I wish no one a broken heart and marriage. I don't even pl.....shoot

I am talking about writing a story and what boundaries can't I cross. I do have photos to backup any of the claims that I have.

Write it and tell us out it worked out--assuming you have are able to move anything in the hospital bed after her new boyfriend/husband has finished with you. (joking--well, sort of. Give it some thought.)

 

[emap]

The safest thing to do is to simply change the names and alter certain things that would scream out who that is your talking about in the story. No libel suits because it would mean saying that's me being that bad and nobody wants to do that.

The libel suits are still there and anyone can file one if they want, though there is a certain disclaimer you can do that makes it safe from suits. I'm sure you have all seen them, Law and Order seems to have one permanently attached to the beginning of every episode, along with South Park.

Goes something along the lines of:
this story is an act of fiction, no characters are meant to emulate any persons living or dead.

There's more but I don't remember what it is at the moment. So you can do a gangbang story of sarah palin cheating on her husband with high school football teams with little difficulty from her so long as you change the name and put the disclaimer. That is what is protected because of Larry Flynt.

 

[sr71plt]

The safest thing to do is to simply change the names and alter certain things that would scream out who that is your talking about in the story. No libel suits because it would mean saying that's me being that bad and nobody wants to do that.

The libel suits are still there and anyone can file one if they want, though there is a certain disclaimer you can do that makes it safe from suits. I'm sure you have all seen them, Law and Order seems to have one permanently attached to the beginning of every episode, along with South Park.

Goes something along the lines of:
this story is an act of fiction, no characters are meant to emulate any persons living or dead.

There's more but I don't remember what it is at the moment. So you can do a gangbang story of sarah palin cheating on her husband with high school football teams with little difficulty from her so long as you change the name and put the disclaimer. That is what is protected because of Larry Flynt.

That's all true--and good for one aspect of what needs to be considered. But you also need to be comfortable with whatever fallout there will be from friends/relatives who see themselves in what you've written regardless of what law says you can get away with. I've lost count of the manuscripts I've seen go into print that resulted in relationship griefs that caused the author to be very sorry he/she never gave enough consideration to how this was going to play out in their life. (I had to pull back a book myself and pay for revisions when I woke up in a cold sweat one night and realized I'd written too close to the bone on a friend who I'd never in a million years want to see themselves in print in that light.)

Back to the avenging boyfriend and the hospital bed.

 

[BlackSnake]

That's all true--and good for one aspect of what needs to be considered. But you also need to be comfortable with whatever fallout there will be from friends/relatives who see themselves in what you've written regardless of what law says you can get away with. I've lost count of the manuscripts I've seen go into print that resulted in relationship griefs that caused the author to be very sorry he/she never gave enough consideration to how this was going to play out in their life. (I had to pull back a book myself and pay for revisions when I woke up in a cold sweat one night and realized I'd written too close to the bone on a friend who I'd never in a million years want to see themselves in print in that light.)

Back to the avenging boyfriend and the hospital bed.

No worries about avenging boyfriends. She knows me too well for that kind of silliness. It's probably not a very good idea, but I may just write it for myself...or just not.

 

[SlickTony]

Blacksnake! Nice to see you again. It's been a while.