Me, but not me

[Wakad3000]

I've been kicking around this idea for a while and thinking of writing a story about it.

Danielle (34F) loves to read stories on literotica. She especially loves stories where the main character shares the same first name as her. While reading a new story series Danielle notices alot of similarities to the main character and herself. Same age, description, number of kids, alots of other personal details too similar to ignore. Even the main characters last name started with the same letter as her last name, and sounded similar enough if you're looking for it. The side characters also match the description of the people in her life, but they all have their names different, but ages, descriptions and occupations lined up exactly, so she knew who each person was. The only person that had their original first name was her older sister Elisabeth (42F).

At first she was angry and confused. Who wrote these? Were these stories really about her or was it all a coincidence? The stories were hot and put her in all kinds of sexual scenarios she never realized she craved.

Her sex life in real life was nowhere as exciting as these stories. She loved her husband, but he'd let himself go and barely initiated sex anymore. When he did he wasn't dominating at all. He just let her get on top and ride him and barely made her cum. But, the Danielle in the stories! She was having flings with all kinds of people in her life! Such as her brother in law, her college aged nephews friends, her therapist or her husband's coworkers. Danielle never fantasized about any of these people before, but the stories opened her mind to different possibilities.

She needed to know who the author of the story was, so she messaged him through the site claiming to be a fan. She asked questions about Danielle and if she was based off anyone. She also gave him story ideas for future stories. Unfortunately the author proved to be a hard nut to Crack. He gave no information on himself and that Danielle was based off someone he fantastizes about, but no details to figure out who he was.

The newest story changed the game. Danielle froze when she saw the story category. The story was in the category "illustrated"

 

[TheWritingGroup]

The author is Elisabeth?

--Annie

 

[Wakad3000]

The author is Elisabeth?

--Annie

I never thought of it being her sister. Maybe it could be. Danielle will have to figure out a way to rule out each suspect

 

[Dwbackup2023]

Does the sister have stories about her too? Could be a way to lead to the author. Someone that knows both sister really well would rule out coworkers or the therapist

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Have a bug in the Activities screen reveal people's real email addresses.

 

[Dwbackup2023]

What if when Danielle writes the author she accidentally gives up too detailed of information when requesting future stories. She doesn't catch it, but the author does.

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

I think it's brilliant. I would turn it around, instead of interacting with the author determine the person she examines the persons and tries to detect if one of them is the author. So she tries to bring up erotic topics with each of them. To check her hypothesis she enacts the stories, so she becomes quite the slut. She might even seduce her sister. The stories keep coming, sending her to more and more adventures. It becomes a game of cat and mouse... Avoiding logical flaws is probably a challenge. Obviously the husband is closest to her, so I would rethink his character to give him more value. Just dismissing him might lose an opportunity for tension.

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

The idea has me captured. Like in a detective story you as an author of your story need to decide in advance who the author in your story is. Let us consider 4 options. Husband, Sister, Therapist, Friend or coworker. Each can be made to work. We should have a motivation.
Husband - He thinks its her who let the marital sex life fail. To keep himself entertained he starts writing stories about her. Unconsciously he opens up paths for her to live out the story plts. He is shocked to realize that it might actually have happened. So he keeps writing to test her and she keeps going to test him.
Sister - She might have fun to write erotic stories and simply needed a character to attach her stories to, never expecting her sis to actually read them. When her sister confides in her that she had an affair and it was exactly one of her stories, she is shocked. It gets worse when Danielle confides another adventure modeled after her story.
Eva realizey she unintentionally destroys her sister's marriage. She tries to discourage her sister but the stories keep coming alive in her sister's adventures. And then there is this story of two sisters named Danielle and Eva making out that has been sitting in her profile seemingly unnoticed. Some day a comment is added by a Dlle how hot she found that story and hopes to live it out because she has a sister named Eva. This would turn the cat and mouse game around. Danielle trying to create the scenario from the story to trap her sister while Eva tries to escape.
Therapist - starts writing the stories as a way to be creative in helping Danielle to become more sexually active. She actually suggests reading erotica and even subtly leads her to the story series. And then she finds out Danielle has not only read them, but is enacting them. And she knows there is a story with Danielle and her Therapist havig sex.... Her professionalism is suddenly at risk.
Colleague/Aquaintance - Someone having a crush on her. When he realizes she follows the story, he creates stories with himself, but she lives each one out one by one. And there are many stories before she will get to the story with him...

Approach: Also several options. 1) Classic 3rd person omniscient. Natual choice. Risk of becoming too expository though. 2) 1st person. This I would probly write from the author's point of view, as it allows to reveal more information to the reader. The inital idea was presented suggesting 1st person pov of Danielle, but in that case I would think keeing the suspense and revelation on a good trajectory could be challenging. Maybe a mix between Danielle's and authors Pov.

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

Another idea, could be that Danielle takes the approach of finding out by living out the stories in the hope that she will know it when she's in bed with the author. That would lend itself into 1st person Pov from Danielle.

 

[Rob_Royale]

It's a very solid idea and I've nothing to add except that I'd happily read this premise.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Let me add to @Andreas_Kreuz's list:

Herself: your heroine has Dissociative Identity Disorder and her alter is writing the stories.

--Annie

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

Herself: your heroine has Dissociative Identity Disorder and her alter is writing the stories.

That's a good one. And her regular A personality learns what she has been up to when she was the alternative B person. The people B has slept with are not aware, that there is A who doesn't know what B did. So they act very intimately. Maybe someone refers to what might have happened, but A doesn't know yet, because B's accounting of the story has not be published yet. (That would make Lit's slow review process a story feature! Teaches them right.)

 

[Wakad3000]

I think it's brilliant. I would turn it around, instead of interacting with the author determine the person she examines the persons and tries to detect if one of them is the author. So she tries to bring up erotic topics with each of them. To check her hypothesis she enacts the stories, so she becomes quite the slut. She might even seduce her sister. The stories keep coming, sending her to more and more adventures. It becomes a game of cat and mouse... Avoiding logical flaws is probably a challenge. Obviously the husband is closest to her, so I would rethink his character to give him more value. Just dismissing him might lose an opportunity for tension.

I was going to do it all from her point of veiw. I was thinking of ways she could test people to see if they are the author. Like wearing a skimpy swimsuit to her husband's work party to see if a story comes out of that and ruling people that weren't there out.

 

[Wakad3000]

I like the idea of keeping the author a secret from the readers. Like the show pretty little lairs where A harasses the main group. I want people guessing who it is or even if its multiple people working together.

The multiple personalities could work, but I dont think im a strong enough writer to pull it off.

Should I do a bio of each person on here? What category would I even put this down as.

 

[Wakad3000]

Does the sister have stories about her too? Could be a way to lead to the author. Someone that knows both sister really well would rule out coworkers or the therapist

I was thinking of having elisabeth having stories too. Danielle has always liked being the center of attention and having her older sister get attention over her may get her to do stuff to get back to being the focus of the story.

 

[Wakad3000]

It's a very solid idea and I've nothing to add except that I'd happily read this premise.

Ideas and feed back are always welcome

 

[Wakad3000]

What if when Danielle writes the author she accidentally gives up too detailed of information when requesting future stories. She doesn't catch it, but the author does.

I like that. Then he could steer her with out knowing her knowing.