Murphy's law

[Troy_E_Stellar]

I have a story idea I'd like to offer to anyone interested in writing it.
The title is: Murphy's law
The baseline for the story is: A series of unfortunate events leads to two (or more) people, who otherwise probably wouldn't, into having to share a bed and they end up having sex.

e.g.
- Family goes on a vacation, but mom has to cancel last minute (Grandma is sick, trouble at work, ...), so dad and daughter go alone.
- Arriving at their destination, they find that their luggage was put on the wrong plane and will not get to them soon.
- They check into the hotel, but dad's keycard doesn't work (no accidentally only booked one room here please)
- He gets another card at the frond desk, but it also doesn't work, nor does the manager's master key. The lock on the door is busted.
- It's a busy holiday weekend, so all rooms are booked.
- The concierge is sick, so an outside contractor has to come in to fixs it.
- Again, because the holiday weekend, the contractor can't come, or needs parts he can't get until after the weekend.
- Only option left is for father and daughter to share a room and its single bed.
- Because they only clothes they have, are the ones they're wearing, they decide to sleep naked.
- In the middle of the night, dad wakes up snuggled up against his daughter, his am around her waist. She's breathing heavy, her arm is moving. She's masturbating!
- He gets turned on, but pretends to be still asleep. She starts grinding her ass against his hard cock until it accidentally slips into her wet pussy.
- No more pretending, they start fucking until he cums inside her. (it's safe, or so they think) They do it several times more during their stay.
-Unfortunately no contraceptif is infallible, maybe her pill was in her luggage, an IUD needs to be replaced every few years, even a vasectomy ca heal on itself (unlikely, but not impossible), so 9 months later little baby Murphy is born.

My example is for the incest/taboo category, but the basic idea can be implemented in any category, with other characters and their own serie of little accidents.

 

[Carnevil9]

This could work. But I think it would start to wear thin when you pile bad luck upon bad luck for no good reason. It is going to start to be difficult for the reader to continue suspending disbelief.

Might be better to come up with a single reason for all the bad luck. That way the reader only has to swallow one big impossibility. Maybe one of the characters accidentally pissed off an old gypsy, who puts a curse on him to last until.... something happens to cancel it. Maybe he accidentally violated an old Indian graveyard, or walked under a ladder, or some mischievous imps have a bet about how much bad luck they can pile onto him before he cracks. Or maybe the stars have aligned in such a way that Murphy's Law is focused down onto one person for several days. Whatever; just so it's One Big Thing that the reader can say, "okay, I'll accept that," and then everything else follows logically from that one big leap.

 

[Troy_E_Stellar]

I get what you're saying, but I'm not sure if adding a supernatural element to it would make it more believable. But maybe that's just my personal preference, and not that of the average reader, i'm not an experienced writer.

maybe limiting the number of incidents could help. Like in my example: skip the mom part, it's a father-daughter weekend. The concierge is there to repair the lock but he can't get the part until after the weekend.

I guess also a lot depends on how believable each individual incident is, and on how the characters react to them. Maybe have one of them make a joke about it at some point like: "This would be funny is i saw this on a sitcom" or "Murphy really has it on for me today" or "Were did you hide the camera's, I feel like I'm on Candid Camera"

 

[subliminalmassage]

This could work. But I think it would start to wear thin when you pile bad luck upon bad luck for no good reason. It is going to start to be difficult for the reader to continue suspending disbelief.

Might be better to come up with a single reason for all the bad luck. That way the reader only has to swallow one big impossibility. Maybe one of the characters accidentally pissed off an old gypsy, who puts a curse on him to last until.... something happens to cancel it. Maybe he accidentally violated an old Indian graveyard, or walked under a ladder, or some mischievous imps have a bet about how much bad luck they can pile onto him before he cracks. Or maybe the stars have aligned in such a way that Murphy's Law is focused down onto one person for several days. Whatever; just so it's One Big Thing that the reader can say, "okay, I'll accept that," and then everything else follows logically from that one big leap.

You could always go down the Greek tragedy route:

Act 1: The gods test the protagonist by doing endless, shitty things to him.

Act 2: the protagonist fails the gods' relentless, unfair tests

Act 3: The gods punish the protagonist by doing endless, shitty things to him


The moral of the story: do not mess with the gods, for they are almighty arseholes.