Looking for someone to write my story.

[shaggMagee]

Looking for someone to write my story.

 

[DarkSollat]

It's against Lit rules to describe real events

 

[shaggMagee]

Sorry, I wasn't aware

 

[gunhilltrain]

Sorry, I wasn't aware

It's not forbidden I think if it goes into Review and Essays or especially the How To sections. I've seen many people describe real events in those, including sexual ones. Or just pretend you made it up. What have you got for us?

P.S.: Like this seems to be about real events. https://classic.literotica.com/s/how-i-pull-men-on-the-airplane

Of course, maybe she did make it up. Or it's a man pretending to be a woman. Who knows? But it was published. Here is the other section.

https://www.literotica.com/c/reviews-and-essays

 

[DarkSollat]

Sorry, I wasn't aware

Technically, it's not I think if it goes into Review and Essays or especially the How To sections. I've seen many people describe real events in those, including sexual ones. Or just pretend you made it up. What have you got for us?

I should elaborate more. The rule is: no real stories. And yes, many stories claim to be real. But, you're idea seemed like something very specific when it comes to details, and that was no-go zone.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Honestly change the names around. Once you do that even if it is a true story good luck proving it.

 

[AlexBailey]

You should probably give some details on what genre and how long you’re looking for.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I should elaborate more. The rule is: no real stories. And yes, many stories claim to be real. But, you're idea seemed like something very specific when it comes to details, and that was no-go zone.

That's kind of hard to define - what is a "real story?" Like I have this in Reviews and Essays, which is slightly modified (the name of the newspaper is changed, but some real first names are used; a few are not.)

https://classic.literotica.com/s/the-past-is-a-foreign-country

So is it a story or an essay? It's all true as far as I could remember it and its very specific about the details. I did change the name of the woman "Jenny" near the end. She did participate as the main model in an amateur porn shoot, as described. I haven't seen her in more than forty years, and I haven't found her by her real name in an online search. If she's still alive at this point, I don't care what she thinks in the slight chance that she would find Lit, much less the specific text about her.

My view: if Laurel makes the rules, then it's her job to enforce them, not the writers. Yeah, the underage rule and a couple of other things are so strict that it would be foolish to challenge those because it's a guaranteed rejection. For everything else, it's open for negotiation. My advice to shaggMagee is: write as you wish, pick the right category, and see what happens. If Lit doesn't like it, they won't be shy in telling you. Otherwise, it might go through.

P.S.: Oh, I saw again that you are not writing it, you want someone else to do it. The same advice still applies.

 

[gunhilltrain]

shaggMagee: just wondering, you've been here since 2014, and you want to pay someone else to write whatever you've got? Why not try writing it yourself? How do you do that? One sentence at a time, like everyone else.

 

[Sean Renaud]

They aren't even THAT strict about the age limit. It hasn't been that long since I was in high school. Only two of my friends, three if you count me were 18 at graduation. Laurel and the others tend to "okay they are in high school, ergo senoir, ergo 18. They tend to be a little stricter about fictional characters when they care. Like you can't age up a character to make them 18 and generally you're stuck with the most famour iteration of said character. Like Robin (Dick) is in college even beforre he turns into Nightwing. Starfire is old enough that we know she's not a virgin. Dick makes an off joke during training to show the new kids what they practiced and she responds "I don't think that would be appropriate" to which he clarifies the combat move.

 

[Carnevil9]

It's against Lit rules to describe real events

I've never seen any such rule.

And besides that, he never said anything about it being a true story, just a story.

And even if there were such a rule, how in the world would you ever enforce it? Stories that are exactly true, based on truth, or completely made up are indistinguishable once they're written into story form.

 

[gunhilltrain]

They aren't even THAT strict about the age limit. It hasn't been that long since I was in high school. Only two of my friends, three if you count me were 18 at graduation. Laurel and the others tend to "okay they are in high school, ergo senoir, ergo 18. They tend to be a little stricter about fictional characters when they care. Like you can't age up a character to make them 18 and generally you're stuck with the most famour iteration of said character. Like Robin (Dick) is in college even beforre he turns into Nightwing. Starfire is old enough that we know she's not a virgin. Dick makes an off joke during training to show the new kids what they practiced and she responds "I don't think that would be appropriate" to which he clarifies the combat move.

Okay, now I seem to be contradicting myself, but if I have a high school senior story, I specify that they are over eighteen. Usually, I have it in the second half of the senior year.

If I really can't fit it in, there are other sites with lower age limits. I don't use them to write pedophilia, but if I have a coming-of-age story, I use those sites to drop below eighteen. It's has been a long time since I was in high school (fifty-year graduation anniversary in June), but I rarely set stories after about the year 2000. I just don't know how people think nowadays.

Mike Davis was born in Fontana, if you've heard of him. I think he mentioned the end of the Kaiser Steel Plant in one of his books. He's kind of a polarizing figure because of his politics and also the controversies about the accuracy of what he wrote.

 

[jaF0]

I've never seen any such rule.

"Works that promote real (non-fictional) prostitution or sex work. These themes and topics may be used freely in fictional stories, but authors may not promote any real life sex work services or real life prostitution services."

"Works professed to be true about real people in the title, tags, and/or description. You can use “true” within the body of a story as part of your fictional storytelling. This policy is to protect authors as well as third parties."

https://literotica.com/resources/content-guidelines


Real 'real life' is a no go.


"The story you have just read is true. The name and places have been changed to rpotect the participants" would probably fly.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I looked it up. There is no such rule for Lit other than your tags cannot mention that its a true story. You can add it into text, just not in the tags. Some of these rules have changed since I last checked them since they said younger characters can be aged up to make them legal. Which was a no no cus I remember someone wanted to do a Pokemon story and the funny thing is that the cartoon is stuck on 10 years old for Ash, Ash (well Red) in the video games is a grown ass man in his twenties. Misty is cannonically 21 I believe in Gold and Silver. Anyhow here are the rules.

https://www.literotica.com/resources/content-guidelines

 

[Carnevil9]

"Works that promote real (non-fictional) prostitution or sex work. These themes and topics may be used freely in fictional stories, but authors may not promote any real life sex work services or real life prostitution services."

"Works professed to be true about real people in the title, tags, and/or description. You can use “true” within the body of a story as part of your fictional storytelling. This policy is to protect authors as well as third parties."

https://literotica.com/resources/content-guidelines


Real 'real life' is a no go.


"The story you have just read is true. The name and places have been changed to rpotect the participants" would probably fly.

Sex-work is an isolated situation, and telling allegedly true sex stories about other people is bordering on libel. But neither are anywhere near a prohibition on true stories in general.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Objectively, without trying to dodge Laurel’s rules (and it is her site), I can see that rule being there to protect her and the site from libel suits.

If the OP’s name is Tommy Smith and the story is written about ‘George Brown’, who’s to know or care? Unless there’s some seriously specific identifying info included and that of an actionable nature, I cannot see there being a bar to it. And just saying that it’s ‘real’ means nothing in fiction.

OP, you might get a better response however if you gave a few details. Many writers stick to certain subjects or areas. Does your story involve gay male sex, for instance? Many writers steer clear of that genre. Incest also can be a red flag. So, some basic background please.

 

[jaF0]

Verifiably, factually true stories with real names, places and events probably wont fly. Fictionalized accounts of true events with nothing that can be verified will be fine.

 

[HeyAll]

Looking for someone to write my story.

What's the story about?

 

[gunhilltrain]

Verifiably, factually true stories with real names, places and events probably wont fly. Fictionalized accounts of true events with nothing that can be verified will be fine.

Then how come I was able to publish an essay about my college newspaper, which describes pornographic drawings and stories published in it plus a description of a porn photo shoot that finally killed the thing? The name of the paper was changed, as was the name of the woman who posed for the photos. The name of the college is real, for sure. It's in Reviews and Essays, and it seems clear that it is about real events. Of course, this was more than forty-five years ago. However, any survivors of that era would instantly recognize what I was writing about. It could be verified because all of the issues of that era, to my surprise, were scanned and posted online recently by the college library. That helped me do the necessary research.