New Orleans

[deliciously_naughty]

Now that I brought it up in the historical first time thread, I'm really interested in writing a story in new orleans, my all time favorite city (I'm not liking nyc this week).

One idea I had (to quote myself from the other thread) is to have a mother take her daughter to the annual quadroon ball (this would be the antebellum period or pre 1900 at least...and yes, this really did happen...for a more in depth explanation of what it is, just let me know you want it and I'll happily go into detail) where the daughter is picked as the mistress for a rich importer. It will be the daughters first sexual experience as well as the other implications. I could play with sex and history my two favorite things.

Another...modern New Orleans...a girl goes to NOLA to have a good time and to try on a new personality. Although she's in a monogamous boring relationship at home, she decides to try on a threesome in NOLA and to drink more than she's ever done before. Her first time being drunk (but I'll be nice and not make her throw up) and her first threesome are the experiences she takes away...and maybe she'll meet the girl who wins her heart.

Another...A newly minted PhD is offered a position teaching in the history department of Tulane (wishful thinking on my part..grin..no, this isn't my dream or anything, why do you ask). Her salary is decent, and she lucks out renting a gorgeous house in the garden district. In the attic she finds the journals of a young man...and as she reads she begins to fall for this man who's centuries dead. She finds a portrait and hangs it in her library, telling herself she's just honoring the history of the house, but really she's feeding her need to see him. Then she starts to see a man who looks like him around the french quarter. Is she crazy or is she seeing a ghost? And most importantly, can he touch her?

Thoughts...comments?

 

[Tatewaki]

Another...A newly minted PhD is offered a position teaching in the history department of Tulane (wishful thinking on my part..grin..no, this isn't my dream or anything, why do you ask). Her salary is decent, and she lucks out renting a gorgeous house in the garden district. In the attic she finds the journals of a young man...and as she reads she begins to fall for this man who's centuries dead. She finds a portrait and hangs it in her library, telling herself she's just honoring the history of the house, but really she's feeding her need to see him. Then she starts to see a man who looks like him around the french quarter. Is she crazy or is she seeing a ghost? And most importantly, can he touch her?

Thoughts...comments?

You have yourself a winner with the last idea. That one has the amount of depth I look for in a story. I didn't really care about a woman getting drunk then becoming the filling in a sex sandwich, or getting balled at a ball, but the last one intrigued me.

I like the way her educational background plays into the storyline and is not just a useless detail. She loves history. She lives for history. This is the kind of person who'd read a stack of musty journals found in the attic and not just deep-six them; one who'd fantasize about the romatic past. Perhaps she'd be one who'd go out and find that past, too.

Good luck with it, if you choose to write it.

-T

 

[deliciously_naughty]

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You have yourself a winner with the last idea. That one has the amount of depth I look for in a story. I didn't really care about a woman getting drunk then becoming the filling in a sex sandwich, or getting balled at a ball, but the last one intrigued me.

I like the way her educational background plays into the storyline and is not just a useless detail. She loves history. She lives for history. This is the kind of person who'd read a stack of musty journals found in the attic and not just deep-six them; one who'd fantasize about the romatic past. Perhaps she'd be one who'd go out and find that past, too.

Good luck with it, if you choose to write it.

-T

I started it today

 

[Tatewaki]

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I started it today

Excellent! I can guarantee at least one vote when it gets posted.

Take care,

-T

 

[Bob Waters]

GREAT concept!

 

[sirhugs]

I agree with T that idea #2 is too common place. But I liked the quadroon ball idea. If incest doesn't offend you, you could have the trader upset that daughter is so shy, decide to nake her watch him "demonstrate " on Mom.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

I agree with T that idea #2 is too common place. But I liked the quadroon ball idea. If incest doesn't offend you, you could have the trader upset that daughter is so shy, decide to nake her watch him "demonstrate " on Mom.

Thanks Sirhugs...I do actually agree with you and T about #2...like many ideas, it was tossed out into ring and then into the discard pile.



I've done one incest story and although it has the most hits out of any story I've written and has generated the most comments...I'm not sure if I want to go back down that road. BTW, I reread my post and wasn't sure if I made it clear that the sex wouldn't happen at the ball. But there are some interesting things that I could do...what if the trader demonstrates on his wife instead of the girls mom?

But for the moment I'm working on my taxi story and the #3 idea...

 

[sirhugs]

Thanks Sirhugs...I do actually agree with you and T about #2...like many ideas, it was tossed out into ring and then into the discard pile.



I've done one incest story and although it has the most hits out of any story I've written and has generated the most comments...I'm not sure if I want to go back down that road. BTW, I reread my post and wasn't sure if I made it clear that the sex wouldn't happen at the ball. But there are some interesting things that I could do...what if the trader demonstrates on his wife instead of the girls mom?

But for the moment I'm working on my taxi story and the #3 idea...

I don't think his wife is credible. I wasn't thinking incest per se- more like Mom is a former coutesan - like in the movie Dangerous Beauty. Or have another girl , then do a lesbian ange if you want.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

I don't think his wife is credible. I wasn't thinking incest per se- more like Mom is a former coutesan - like in the movie Dangerous Beauty. Or have another girl , then do a lesbian ange if you want.

I like the last idea more.

To be honest, I don't have a dad, so daughter/father play doesn't cause any freakouts for me. I don't think I could write anything where the daughter sees the mom naked...just a weird personal thing.

 

[deliciously_naughty]

I don't think his wife is credible. I wasn't thinking incest per se- more like Mom is a former coutesan - like in the movie Dangerous Beauty. Or have another girl , then do a lesbian ange if you want.

the courtesan angle might work in another context, but not for this. Yes, everyone knew why you went to the quadroon ball, but it had more to do with a better life (and your kids could inherit..louisiana law was on napoleonic code, not eglish common law) than sex. But her mom could give her a few tips...hmmm...

 

[H piltdown]

The nineteenth century Quadroon Ball would make for an interesting story line, and has been used quite a bit already in mainstream literature. However, I don't know if you've considered the racial aspects. I've never actually looked into this subject, but people down here in the Crescent City tend to feel the Quadroon was chiefly a vehicle for young ladies of mixed race to find a better life. But, that's just word on the street.

You're third idea seems quite interesting, also. I only wish that that getting lucky and finding a 'gorgeous house' in the Garden District at a reasonable price was possible in real life. I'd jump on it in a minute. Even the backstreet barns are beyond my means. I guess that's why we call it fantasy. Plus, lot's of people see ghosts in the Quarter. Unfortunately, the vast majority of those ghost sightings seem to follow copious amounts of alcohol.

I'd love to read your stories about New Orleans. Frankly, I'm often tired of the real thing!

 

[sirhugs]

The nineteenth century Quadroon Ball would make for an interesting story line, and has been used quite a bit already in mainstream literature. However, I don't know if you've considered the racial aspects. I've never actually looked into this subject, but people down here in the Crescent City tend to feel the Quadroon was chiefly a vehicle for young ladies of mixed race to find a better life. But, that's just word on the street.

You're third idea seems quite interesting, also. I only wish that that getting lucky and finding a 'gorgeous house' in the Garden District at a reasonable price was possible in real life. I'd jump on it in a minute. Even the backstreet barns are beyond my means. I guess that's why we call it fantasy. Plus, lot's of people see ghosts in the Quarter. Unfortunately, the vast majority of those ghost sightings seem to follow copious amounts of alcohol.

I'd love to read your stories about New Orleans. Frankly, I'm often tired of the real thing!

yeah, excessive realism is a drag. especially with all the rain.... hope you are dry

 

[Guest]

One idea I had is to have a mother take her daughter to the annual quadroon ball (this would be the antebellum period or pre 1900 at least...and yes, this really did happen) where the daughter is picked as the mistress for a rich importer. It will be the daughters first sexual experience as well as the other implications. I could play with sex and history my two favorite things...

I thought, according to Rice's The Witching Hour, the Quadroon Balls were where men went to mingle with young women of mixed races (mulattos).

I can go back in the book and reread, but I thought Julien took Marybeth (or whichever Mayfair woman dressed in drag as a man) to the balls, yada yada.

Are you looking to make the daughter mixed race, perhaps?

 

[deliciously_naughty]

The nineteenth century Quadroon Ball would make for an interesting story line, and has been used quite a bit already in mainstream literature. However, I don't know if you've considered the racial aspects. I've never actually looked into this subject, but people down here in the Crescent City tend to feel the Quadroon was chiefly a vehicle for young ladies of mixed race to find a better life. But, that's just word on the street.

I'd love to read your stories about New Orleans. Frankly, I'm often tired of the real thing!

Well, yes, that's the whole idea. The mother takes her daughter to the quadroon ball b/c if she is picked as a rich mans mistress she will be set up in a home of her own with servants, etc. Any children that come of the union will have the right to inherit along with his legitimate children. The quadroon ball was about social mobility, but by becoming someones mistress, the ball was about interracial sex as well, which is what opens the door to an erotic story.

Grin, I'd rather live in nola than write about it. It's been almost a year since I've been there and I want a beignet so much that it's driving me crazy. Oh, and johnny po' boys. And Angelis. Oh shit, now I'm hungry

 

[deliciously_naughty]

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I thought, according to Rice's The Witching Hour, the Quadroon Balls were where men went to mingle with young women of mixed races (mulattos).

I can go back in the book and reread, but I thought Julien took Marybeth (or whichever Mayfair woman dressed in drag as a man) to the balls, yada yada.

Are you looking to make the daughter mixed race, perhaps?

The daughter would be a quadroon (1/4 african american, 3/4 white). Men went to mingle with the quadroon daughters, but most specifically to find mistresses. As a historian, I'm fascinated by the idea, especially when Louisiana handles race in such a different manner than the rest of the south. Not to say that it was "better" to be black in LA or NOLA than anywhere in the rest of the south, but the dynamics were different and so were the laws.

 

[Chicklet]

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I thought, according to Rice's The Witching Hour, the Quadroon Balls were where men went to mingle with young women of mixed races (mulattos).

and we all know that anne rice writes nothing but god honest truth.

sorry, just had to say it = )

Naughty girl, I can't wait to read this story.

Chicklet

 

[deliciously_naughty]

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and we all know that anne rice writes nothing but god honest truth.

sorry, just had to say it = )

Naughty girl, I can't wait to read this story.

Chicklet

grin....which one

 

[deliciously_naughty]

[BAnother...A newly minted PhD is offered a position teaching in the history department of Tulane (wishful thinking on my part..grin..no, this isn't my dream or anything, why do you ask). Her salary is decent, and she lucks out renting a gorgeous house in the garden district. In the attic she finds the journals of a young man...and as she reads she begins to fall for this man who's centuries dead. She finds a portrait and hangs it in her library, telling herself she's just honoring the history of the house, but really she's feeding her need to see him. Then she starts to see a man who looks like him around the french quarter. Is she crazy or is she seeing a ghost? And most importantly, can he touch her?
[/B]

Since you guys were really supportive of this story, I wanted to tell you that I finished it around 5am this morning and submitted it. It's called "Haunted Lover" (ok, the title may sound cheesy but it's 5am) and in a moment of shameless self promotion I want to add that I tossed it in as my last second entry for the halloween contest. I think it came out really well. At first the ending wanted to get away from me, but I went back and rewrote it and I'm much happier with this ending.

Let me know what you think. I hope it will be up by sunday or monday.