Opposite POV

[gauchecritic]

I've started a new story using first person female. (which has been quite successful for me previously). It was going to be in the incest cat. but the problem I'm having is that I can't move towards that end.

I've set it up, given the basic impetus to those necessary, but I just cannot get the character to move towards the incest part. Not whole heartedly. She's found herself listening to the goings on in the next bedroom. She's seen the boy she wants, naked. But the thoughts just aren't turning towards sex with him. Towards sex, but not with him.

I've basically written the story before, but from the boy's POV and the encouraging PC's I've received from that cat plus the previous female protag story (PCs thanking me as a woman for writing the story) inspired me to try this.

Why isn't she thinking of the boy as a sexual 'target'?

Some characters do sometimes wonder off in my stories but I've never had one shy away from the particular fetish I was writing about.

Is is because she's a woman?

 

[Stella_Omega]

is it because of that discussion recently? The one where so many women spat upon the notion of incest?

LOOK WHAT WE DID!! Oh gawd, i'm so sorry...

Ca you write in in a more mechanistic way, just to get a framework down? Make her go through the motions. As you do, her feelings might become more in line with what you'd envisioned. maybe?

 

[jomar]

Could it just be that your characters have a different story in mind?

 

[Guest]

I've started a new story using first person female. (which has been quite successful for me previously). It was going to be in the incest cat. but the problem I'm having is that I can't move towards that end.

I've set it up, given the basic impetus to those necessary, but I just cannot get the character to move towards the incest part. Not whole heartedly. She's found herself listening to the goings on in the next bedroom. She's seen the boy she wants, naked. But the thoughts just aren't turning towards sex with him. Towards sex, but not with him.

I've basically written the story before, but from the boy's POV and the encouraging PC's I've received from that cat plus the previous female protag story (PCs thanking me as a woman for writing the story) inspired me to try this.

Why isn't she thinking of the boy as a sexual 'target'?

Some characters do sometimes wonder off in my stories but I've never had one shy away from the particular fetish I was writing about.

Is is because she's a woman?

I have literally stopped writing some of my stories because the characters are wanting something that I cannot give them... me personally... or my writing... that might be what has happened in this instance. Go and write something else, anything else but let this alone for a bit and see what happens maybe it will show you why it is being difficult.

 

[gauchecritic]

is it because of that discussion recently? The one where so many women spat upon the notion of incest?

LOOK WHAT WE DID!! Oh gawd, i'm so sorry...

Ca you write in in a more mechanistic way, just to get a framework down? Make her go through the motions. As you do, her feelings might become more in line with what you'd envisioned. maybe?

I think maybe that had something to do with it, plus the fact that the protag is over 60 and most ladies over 60 of my acquaintance barely acknowledge the fact of sex let alone perverse sex.

And there is one simple reason I don't write frameworks, because when I do I just really can't be arsed to fill them in. I feel as if I've already written the thing.

Could it just be that your characters have a different story in mind?

I generally let characters wonder where they will and drag them back when they run out of steam but this one doesn't seem to want to even entertain the idea.

 

[jomar]

Damn. It is hard to write porn if your protag is a prude!

 

[SlickTony]

Damn. It is hard to write porn if your protag is a prude!

Oh, but think of the fun of her prudishness being stripped away from her!

Lord, I hope I don't become like your over-60 friends when I'm over 60. I somehow don't think I will. For one thing, sex is so much a mental thing, and writing or reading erotica tends to keep you--shall we say?--mentally lubricated. Besides, I haven't really been able to accept the age I am now. I have always looked younger than my age and still do. Therefore from time to time I find myself in situations that would never happen to other women of my age.

 

[gauchecritic]

Oh, but think of the fun of her prudishness being stripped away from her!

Lord, I hope I don't become like your over-60 friends when I'm over 60. I somehow don't think I will. For one thing, sex is so much a mental thing, and writing or reading erotica tends to keep you--shall we say?--mentally lubricated. Besides, I haven't really been able to accept the age I am now. I have always looked younger than my age and still do. Therefore from time to time I find myself in situations that would never happen to other women of my age.

It's a cultural thing I think. English, northern, working class. The previous generation to these were actually women that would go 'into service' (maids etc) as a viable career choice. Not many years before there was a 'class' struggle amongst these folks because of the church they attended. What was called 'high' or 'low' chapel. These were ladies that were no strangers to 'laying out' their dead, home births and infant mortality. Of their husbands being 'laid off' from mine work because they worked too hard A different world.

 

[jomar]

Oh, but think of the fun of her prudishness being stripped away from her!

Why yes, there is that!

I have always looked younger than my age and still do. Therefore from time to time I find myself in situations that would never happen to other women of my age.

Me too.

And your comment is intriguing.

 

[tickledkitty]

Gauche, I can't help but think she really does have a different story to tell. Maybe if you let her tell it the way she wants to, it will be even better in the end?

 

[Guest]

Gauche, I can't help but think she really does have a different story to tell. Maybe if you let her tell it the way she wants to, it will be even better in the end?

She sounds very practical, very no nonsense.

I agree with TK. If you don't allow her to tell the story in her own way, she'll probably box your ears.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

GAUCHE

Make it ersatz incest...the boy is a foster kid.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Put her on the couch here, Gauche, Bring her in and let her talk for a while and let's see if we can tell what's on her mind. A little character psychoanalysis.

 

[gauchecritic]

Put her on the couch here, Gauche, Bring her in and let her talk for a while and let's see if we can tell what's on her mind. A little character psychoanalysis.

Now that would be quite an interesting thread.

Sorry JBJ, I'm old school when it comes to this cat. consanguinous or nothing.