Opinions, please.

[LindsayRae]

I have an idea brewing around my brain that I would like to set in either the 1950s or the 1970s. However, it's not that black and white, per se. I am wondering if I should make my story "current day" back then or if I should write it from "today" with an older woman looking back on her past.

I would greatly appreciate your opinions!!!

 

[ThePantyMan]

I personally like the idea of the older woman looking back on her past. The flashback element catches my attention. I like it.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I have an idea brewing around my brain that I would like to set in either the 1950s or the 1970s. However, it's not that black and white, per se. I am wondering if I should make my story "current day" back then or if I should write it from "today" with an older woman looking back on her past.

I would greatly appreciate your opinions!!!

retrospective view works for me. that's just my opinion, mind. you can blend the feelings and experiences of an older person into the abric of the tale too.

 

[LindsayRae]

Thank you, Mr. Panty and Mr. Appleby, for the opinions so far.

 

[ThePantyMan]

Thank you, Mr. Panty and Mr. Appleby, for the opinions so far.

You are welcome. Where can I read your stories?

 

[LindsayRae]

You will have to wait for some to become posted once again.

 

[jeninflorida]

I have an idea brewing around my brain that I would like to set in either the 1950s or the 1970s. However, it's not that black and white, per se. I am wondering if I should make my story "current day" back then or if I should write it from "today" with an older woman looking back on her past.

I would greatly appreciate your opinions!!!

which way is easier for you to write?

 

[LindsayRae]

I suppose there isn't one that is easier than the other. I was just trying to get a feel for others' likes or dislikes. Either way, the 1950s or 1970s (which ever era I decide on) is the centered time period I want.

I'm looking for a somewhat more "innocent" time where "kinky" sex, per se, wasn't so mainstream or "normal" or whatever. Part of the idea is the kink/fetish this young lady has in a time where stereotypically she shouldn't/wouldn't.

One small spoiler or hint I will offer is her "sneaking into the world of the gay boys", a drag king of sorts, but because she is a hetero woman that craves cock and not a lesbian that sees herself as male.

 

[emap]

If you want to set it in the '50's or '70's try and get the lingo. Some people actually care, not exactly sure why but I had a couple comments on my western stories that they captured the feel of the era. Hard to do that and not have word english checker get you to beat the computer to death in frustration.

 

[grey228]

I suppose there isn't one that is easier than the other. I was just trying to get a feel for others' likes or dislikes. Either way, the 1950s or 1970s (which ever era I decide on) is the centered time period I want.

I'm looking for a somewhat more "innocent" time where "kinky" sex, per se, wasn't so mainstream or "normal" or whatever. Part of the idea is the kink/fetish this young lady has in a time where stereotypically she shouldn't/wouldn't.

One small spoiler or hint I will offer is her "sneaking into the world of the gay boys", a drag king of sorts, but because she is a hetero woman that craves cock and not a lesbian that sees herself as male.

You have a nude Bettie Mae Page in your board icon, and you have to ask?

Wow.

You do know Titanic was pretty much an old woman getting off her rocks about when she was 17, right? You can also shoot for that.

 

[Carnevil9]

I suppose there isn't one that is easier than the other. I was just trying to get a feel for others' likes or dislikes. Either way, the 1950s or 1970s (which ever era I decide on) is the centered time period I want.

I'm looking for a somewhat more "innocent" time where "kinky" sex, per se, wasn't so mainstream or "normal" or whatever. Part of the idea is the kink/fetish this young lady has in a time where stereotypically she shouldn't/wouldn't.

One small spoiler or hint I will offer is her "sneaking into the world of the gay boys", a drag king of sorts, but because she is a hetero woman that craves cock and not a lesbian that sees herself as male.

If you want a more "innocent" time, then you need to pick the 50s over the 70s. Trust me, I lived through the 70s. There was nothing innocent about it!

The 50s also have the advantage of there being fewer people still around who remember it, and therefore less of a burden to sound authentic.

Good luck! I'll be looking forward to reading it........Carney

 

[emap]

If you want a more "innocent" time, then you need to pick the 50s over the 70s. Trust me, I lived through the 70s. There was nothing innocent about it!

The 50s also have the advantage of there being fewer people still around who remember it, and therefore less of a burden to sound authentic.

Good luck! I'll be looking forward to reading it........Carney

I'm disagreeing with few left that remember it. I mean really, golly gee and poodle skirts are as well known now as they were in the fifties. There are still fans of Andy Griffith show and Gomer Pyle, both are voiced more from the fifties than the sixties when they were shot.

See this is the really funny part, the sixties were a time of social change in the throws of drugs. No seriously it was heavily drug influenced why the fifties are almost forgotten. You still have some heavily loved movies from the fifties and sixties that sound like they were from the fifties. TV was still saying golly gee, watch Andy Griffith or if you can stand it Batman, both sound more like the fifties. Back to the Future the first one is set in the fifties most of the time, it's pretty darn close and how many people older than twenty have watched it?

Leave it to Beaver ring a bell? How about Mr. Ed? The fifties are remembered because the same things were said from the middle of the forties into the very end of the sixties.

 

[sirhugs]

Try one way. If it doesn't feel right, switch to the other.

 

[LindsayRae]

If you want a more "innocent" time, then you need to pick the 50s over the 70s. Trust me, I lived through the 70s. There was nothing innocent about it!

The 50s also have the advantage of there being fewer people still around who remember it, and therefore less of a burden to sound authentic.

Good luck! I'll be looking forward to reading it........Carney

Part of my deciding which era also has to do with some research I've done. The "commonness" or availability of some things. I'm not trying to say that the 1970s were "innocent, period". Like black and white. But I'm saying/thinking it may have been a little more secret or not "mainstream".


P.S.
Thank you to the newer opinions added now!!

 

[favoritesgoddess]

I love the idea of writing in the time period. Flashbacks are nice, but the present always informs on how we see the past. It would be neat to see it written from the time period it was actually lived. Like looking at Dad's old Penhouse magazines from the 70's. Sex had a particular "feel" to it that is different today.

 

[Dragonlipz]

I have an idea brewing around my brain that I would like to set in either the 1950s or the 1970s. However, it's not that black and white, per se. I am wondering if I should make my story "current day" back then or if I should write it from "today" with an older woman looking back on her past.

I would greatly appreciate your opinions!!!

You're not old enough to have a past, but probably some potential for a future!

 

[Dragonlipz]

Part of my deciding which era also has to do with some research I've done. The "commonness" or availability of some things. I'm not trying to say that the 1970s were "innocent, period". Like black and white. But I'm saying/thinking it may have been a little more secret or not "mainstream".


P.S.
Thank you to the newer opinions added now!!

There was no innocence in the 70's (or the 50's for that matter, there just wasn't any media coverage of the 'events')

 

[LindsayRae]

There was no innocence in the 70's (or the 50's for that matter, there just wasn't any media coverage of the 'events')

So, therefore, the hint of innocence is there. It, at least, wasn't "mainstream" and shoved into "everyone's" face like sexuality is today, etc.

 

[LindsayRae]

...ignore this post...

This is just a "test" to see if this shows up. I'm having trouble with Lit right now.

 

[rthnck]

I vote for "looking back" . It's much more exciting to me to believe that the events that unfold in the story really happened (assuming I'm not in the sci-fi or nonhuman section ). Period pieces are also much harder to write to be believable because you really have to have your facts down straight. Mistakes in "looking back" can always be attributed to faulty recall. IMHO.

 

[Monazwx]

Add me as another one for the flashback(s) from the 50's.

 

[LindsayRae]

Thank you, again, for the recent opinions. I agree that it could be "harder" to write as if that past date was "the current day" because of terminology, mannerisms, and other things that one (the author) may not know about if they never lived in said decade/era.

It reminds me of a stupid movie a while back when Brendan Fraser was still a young man...I forget the name of it now...but he was a little kid in the 1950s and he and his parents entered a bomb shelter and by the time they came out of it like thirty years had passed. (And he had to try to live in this "new, modern" era, yada yada.) Anyway, there was a lady named Heather or something like that and he was like "I've never heard of such a name for a person before!"

Anywho... lol I rambled. Sorry.

 

[Cabinguy]

Since the "meat" of your story would take place in the past it's almost a wash regarding the flashback / real time aspect. However all flashback fiction gives the reader the knowledge that the protagonist survives the story and some idea of how he/she turns out. Pretty much your choice.

In terms of 50's vs. 70's if you are looking for some aspect of taboo I would go with the 50's when anything sexual was not discussed in polite company. The 70's was much more a time of breaking down some of those barriers which leads us to our "in your face" world of today.

Also depending on the geographic setting of your story if you go with the 50's you could bring in a racial aspect in the segregated South. Where it was a scandal for a good young white girl to even talk to a black man, let alone a gay black man. Hard to imagine a more ostracized character than a gay black person living in 1952 Alabama.

Good luck.

 

[Man_in_Chester]

I can only advise you to consider your audience / readership. Young minds are more likely to find flashbacks a bore.
If you are willing to do social research on the 50's and the 70's then do some on the Literotica Readers. The young ones might like to hear Grandad's tales.

 

[DarkBee]

Thank you, again, for the recent opinions. I agree that it could be "harder" to write as if that past date was "the current day" because of terminology, mannerisms, and other things that one (the author) may not know about if they never lived in said decade/era.

It reminds me of a stupid movie a while back when Brendan Fraser was still a young man...I forget the name of it now... but he was a little kid in the 1950s and he and his parents entered a bomb shelter and by the time they came out of it like thirty years had passed. (And he had to try to live in this "new, modern" era, yada yada.) Anyway, there was a lady named Heather or something like that and he was like "I've never heard of such a name for a person before!"

Anywho... lol I rambled. Sorry.

The movie is called Blast from the past.