Let's play: Stroker or Not?

[AwkwardMD]

Here we go. Lafayette Hills. A watershed story for me. 30k words

On the stroker side: POV you're a wallflower, and the woman who is covertly sleeping with half the neighborhood has noticed you.

On the not side: the story only uses the word autism once, in the epilogue, when the protagonist Mary is receiving her diagnosis, but the signs are there. It only uses the word suicide once, to explain the deadline Mary has been fretting about the whole time with regards to her writing, but the signs are there. It never uses the word narcissist, to describe the older woman seducing Mary, but there are red flags everywhere.

Sometimes, though, in the moment, being used can feel so good.

 

[NaughteeDragon]

Motivation is several strokers strung together. After the date is over (about 3500 words) there is a 2000 word sex scene. At the end is an 8,000 word threesome that could stand on its own as a pure stroker.

 

[Statius]

Accessibility Compliance
A first-person narrator accidentally becomes voyeur to a sexting conversation and explicit pictures sent between two strangers. They get so turned on that they need to sneak away to the office bathroom to get some relief, but complications arise!

It might be a stroker because it's fairly short (5k words), it kind of starts in media res, it plays with some semi-taboo topics, and it ends in a pair of messy orgasms...

It might NOT be a stroker because it doesn't actually involve any penetrative sex, and in fact doesn't even involve any characters physically touching at all. Also the central conceit of the story involves looking at HTML code

My thoughts: I think it's not a stroker, my intention when writing it was to fulfill an intellectual writing challenge, and as it developed it also became strangely, awkwardly romantic. But... It's also an attempt at writing something dirty and naughty, and the MC is a bit of a horny creep in their own weird way

Probably not the thread to do this but you write a great deal based on American folklore. Do you have book recommendations that you use for source material? I have 1 but it's all like Paul Bunyan type material. Just curious. Thanks.

 

[PennyThompson]

Probably not the thread to do this but you write a great deal based on American folklore. Do you have book recommendations that you use for source material? I have 1 but it's all like Paul Bunyan type material. Just curious. Thanks.

I have to admit that my scholarship is pretty casual Mostly google scholar and wikipedia for anything factual or historical, and a variety of graphic novels, movies, tv, video games and roleplaying source books for inspiration.

I'm a big fan of Mike Mignola's Hellboy graphic novels, the Dandelion story was partly inspired by his story The Crooked Man. There's a movie adaptation, it's interesting but not great!

Somewhat coincidentally, @RudelyAbrupt commented on my story to recommend Manly Wade Wellman, who wrote folk horror pulp fiction and who served as an inspiration for Mignola. On Rudely's recommendation I got a copy of Wellman's John the Balladeer, and absolutely loved it. I enjoyed it and highly recommend it, but I kind of regret reading it because now it's making it difficult for me to write a second Dandelion story without feeling too derivative of Wellman's stuff

 

[AwkwardMD]

I have to admit that my scholarship is pretty casual Mostly google scholar and wikipedia for anything factual or historical, and a variety of graphic novels, movies, tv, video games and roleplaying source books for inspiration.

I'm a big fan of Mike Mignola's Hellboy graphic novels, the Dandelion story was partly inspired by his story The Crooked Man. There's a movie adaptation, it's interesting but not great!

Somewhat coincidentally, @RudelyAbrupt commented on my story to recommend Manly Wade Wellman, who wrote folk horror pulp fiction and who served as an inspiration for Mignola. On Rudely's recommendation I got a copy of Wellman's John the Balladeer, and absolutely loved it. I enjoyed it and highly recommend it, but I kind of regret reading it because now it's making it difficult for me to write a second Dandelion story without feeling too derivative of Wellman's stuff

You should definitely try to track down the film version of John The Balladeer. It is an all-time classic.

 

[Statius]

I have to admit that my scholarship is pretty casual Mostly google scholar and wikipedia for anything factual or historical, and a variety of graphic novels, movies, tv, video games and roleplaying source books for inspiration.

I'm a big fan of Mike Mignola's Hellboy graphic novels, the Dandelion story was partly inspired by his story The Crooked Man. There's a movie adaptation, it's interesting but not great!

Somewhat coincidentally, @RudelyAbrupt commented on my story to recommend Manly Wade Wellman, who wrote folk horror pulp fiction and who served as an inspiration for Mignola. On Rudely's recommendation I got a copy of Wellman's John the Balladeer, and absolutely loved it. I enjoyed it and highly recommend it, but I kind of regret reading it because now it's making it difficult for me to write a second Dandelion story without feeling too derivative of Wellman's stuff

Thanks!