Playing with a Story....Can someone help?

[IV_play69]

Hello all,

I have read the Literotica Story site for several years, and lurked on the boards quite a bit. I have a story that has sort of rattled around in my mind for a while now. It is loosly based on a very old Clark Gable movie that I can't even remember the name. Anyhoo, the general theme of my story is Antibellium Old South. Young Lady's father dies and she is sold into slavery as she is a product of master (her Daddy) and slave. She has been raised in the house as his daughter, educated, and well traveled. She is light skinned and I suppose would be considered a passer.......if she had known but never did. In the movie she is bought by Clark Gable and eventually fall in love and of course live happily ever after..........General story I have been kicking around is similar but thought would put a little more UMPH to it.........Literotica Style.

I don't want to write this and have any copyright/plagerism issues. Can someone tell me if this may be too close to origional work. If I can remember the name of the Movie (or is someone here knows the name) if I reference it at the beginning that it is loosly based on that story would that suffice. I have played around with a few stories but honestly I have little imagination on my own. I can embellish on an idea........but i have a hard time just pulling a totally origional idea out.

Thanx for reading and look forward to any help I can get.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Anyone can get ideas from other stories- that happens all the time. It would be almost impossible to copyright a plot, in fact. Slave Girl Wins Freedom Through Love is a fairly popular plot- seems to me there's something like that in the Bible.
Even Collette's "Gigi" is a variant of that theme.
What you are copywriting is the sequences of words, that you use to write your story. And since you can't remember much of the movie, there's a relatively small chance that you'll accomplish much plagarising!
Don't worry too much, I'd say. If it really bothers you, you can post it in the celeb category as fan fiction. I hope you don't have to do that

 

[OhMissScarlett]

Hello all,

I have read the Literotica Story site for several years, and lurked on the boards quite a bit. I have a story that has sort of rattled around in my mind for a while now. It is loosly based on a very old Clark Gable movie that I can't even remember the name. Anyhoo, the general theme of my story is Antibellium Old South. Young Lady's father dies and she is sold into slavery as she is a product of master (her Daddy) and slave. She has been raised in the house as his daughter, educated, and well traveled. She is light skinned and I suppose would be considered a passer.......if she had known but never did. In the movie she is bought by Clark Gable and eventually fall in love and of course live happily ever after..........General story I have been kicking around is similar but thought would put a little more UMPH to it.........Literotica Style.

I don't want to write this and have any copyright/plagerism issues. Can someone tell me if this may be too close to origional work. If I can remember the name of the Movie (or is someone here knows the name) if I reference it at the beginning that it is loosly based on that story would that suffice. I have played around with a few stories but honestly I have little imagination on my own. I can embellish on an idea........but i have a hard time just pulling a totally origional idea out.

Thanx for reading and look forward to any help I can get.

First of all, welcome to the AH. I think this is a great basis for an erotic story. I know the movie you're talking about but I can't think of the name at the moment. It's not the only movie that I know of that deals with this sort of subject matter. I remember in The North And The South that Madeline is a light skinned girl who can pass as white and hides her true heritage.

I don't know about the copyright issue. I've been inspired by lots of movies and true stories. I think the key is to make something so much your own, that it tells a completely new story. I wouldn't bother with a reference unless your story is exactly along the same plot lines, etc and you're making it into a celebrities story. I hope this helps. Maybe someone else will chime in with some good advice.

 

[3113]

You don't have to credit it at all unless you're going for the Celebrities section which allows writers to use not only real celebrities, but characters (like Buffy characters) from movies and t.v.

Remember: An IDEA is not a story. Let me show you. Here's an idea:
"Man falsely accused of murdering his wife has to run for his life and prove his innocence."

Now you immediately think of "The Fugitive" yes? But this is also the same plot for the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Frenzy." The spin is different, however, as are the characters. In "The Fugitive" the man is a respectable doctor--his wife murdered by a one-armed man. In "Frenzy" the man is not respectable at all--his wife murdered by a serial killer. The focus in "The Fugitive" is the man on the run searching for the killer. In "Frenzy" the focus is on the serial killer and can he be stopped?

But the IDEA is the same for both movies.

So if you like this idea of this light skinned Octoroon (that's the technical name for 1/4 black in the anti-bellum south), raised educated but sold into slavery, then have at it. Put your own twists and turns and characterization on it. Make it your story. The idea is yours for the taking...the Clark Gable movie, it's characters and how the story goes plot-point for plot-point, is not.

 

[OhMissScarlett]

BTW, the Clark Gable movie was Band Of Angels and Yvonne De Carlo(Lily Munster) played the girl.