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[PanesOfGlasss]

I'm writing the second story I hope to have published, and I need some advice.

First, I know that real websites are not allowed in stories, but how about literotica.com itself?

When two geeks want to learn about sexual technique, I can think of no better way that for one to have gone to the literotica.com How To forum!

The second question is whether or not it allowable to use actual hotel names and restaurant names. All the ones I plan to use in my story are reflected very favorably. I would like to use this story as a list of recommendations of places to eat in Boston as well as a smokin' hot romance.

If I can do that, I will add good places to eat in New Orleans, San Francisco, Walt Disney World and other great places in future chapters.

I would assume that public places are OK to mention, such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but I'm double checking here, too.

I'm fairly new, and have published only one story so far, Moonlight Window.

Thanks!

 

[Handley_Page]

I'm writing the second story I hope to have published, and I need some advice.

First, I know that real websites are not allowed in stories, but how about literotica.com itself?

When two geeks want to learn about sexual technique, I can think of no better way that for one to have gone to the literotica.com How To forum!

The second question is whether or not it allowable to use actual hotel names and restaurant names. All the ones I plan to use in my story are reflected very favorably. I would like to use this story as a list of recommendations of places to eat in Boston as well as a smokin' hot romance.

If I can do that, I will add good places to eat in New Orleans, San Francisco, Walt Disney World and other great places in future chapters.

I would assume that public places are OK to mention, such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, but I'm double checking here, too.

I'm fairly new, and have published only one story so far, Moonlight Window.

Thanks!

I think you could be restricting your options a bit much.
Better to invent somewhere that might sound similar.
There's always some blighter wants to have real moan.

 

[sr71plt]

Chances are good that you can reference Literotica itself in a story (you shouldn't have to refer to it as a URL). Some of the How To essays on writing refer to it.

I freely use names of real restaurants, hotels, etc.

 

[Hypoxia]

A link within a story would rather impede the narrative flow, yes? AFAIK the site's warez filter out links in story texts. But I have successfully used obviously fake site names like FuckYou.Kom.

As with Pilot, I may use names of real businesses. I may disguise them on occasion, not so much for protection as to cover possible changes in ownership. I'll refer to a certain San Francisco seafood restaurant by location rather than name; it might have a new name next year but it's always going to have a star location at the northwest corner of Ghirardelli Square.

Probably the only legal problem you'd have would result from denigrating a real business. Would they send lawyers to hunt you down? It's possible; I've not heard of it happening here. You could probably get away with calling a certain fast-food chain McShit. But don't mess with The Mouse

 

[sr71plt]

But don't mess with The Mouse

On the other hand, one of my most recent stories here, "Fuck a Duck," as you can imagine, includes both Disney World and a certain Disney character.

Folks are far too skittish about what they can write in this regard and be fully protected legally. They give too much credence to urban legends.

 

[SamScribble]

Way back when, one of my English profs said that there are fact facts and there are fiction facts. If you are skilful in the exercise of your craft, your reader should accept fiction facts as if they were fact facts.

In ‘April Love is Back’ (http://www.literotica.com/s/april-love-is-back), I start with a couple of the characters lunching at ‘The Square, Phil Howard's two-Michelin-starred establishment on Bruton Street’ (fact fact), and end with the same two characters meeting at ‘Scrivano's, a little Tuscan-inspired restaurant on the border between Holland Park and Notting Hill’ (fiction fact). One of my readers sent me a note saying that he had been to Scrivano’s. He thought that it was really good restaurant.

 

[PanesOfGlasss]

I'm going to have the literotica website in a dialog stream, so it will be written as "literotica dot com" That should take care of it.

Every one of the restaurants I mention by name is one at which I have eaten, and would recommend to a friend. Any bad places I mention are fictional.

I would never mess with the Mouse. Making out on the Haunted Mansion ride. Two geeks trying to time their climax with the end of the fireworks they are watching from a room at Bay Lake Towers. Seeing if a ben wa ball enhances the Hollywood Tower of Terror. Stuff like that. I love WDW, and would never have my romantic geek characters do anything that would get them kicked out of the park. Just good, clean erotic fun.

New Orleans on the other hand -/\--\/--/\-- (kinky, get it?)

Thanks to everyone for their wonderful advice.

 

[Hypoxia]

On the other hand, one of my most recent stories here, "Fuck a Duck," as you can imagine, includes both Disney World and a certain Disney character.

Folks are far too skittish about what they can write in this regard and be fully protected legally. They give too much credence to urban legends.

I guess you didn't bother them enough to be worth a nasty letter.

 

[Handley_Page]

I'm going to have the literotica website in a dialog stream, so it will be written as "literotica dot com" That should take care of it.

Every one of the restaurants I mention by name is one at which I have eaten, and would recommend to a friend. Any bad places I mention are fictional.

I would never mess with the Mouse. Making out on the Haunted Mansion ride. Two geeks trying to time their climax with the end of the fireworks they are watching from a room at Bay Lake Towers. Seeing if a ben wa ball enhances the Hollywood Tower of Terror. Stuff like that. I love WDW, and would never have my romantic geek characters do anything that would get them kicked out of the park. Just good, clean erotic fun.

New Orleans on the other hand -/\--\/--/\-- (kinky, get it?)

Thanks to everyone for their wonderful advice.

I don't think you need the "dot com" part.

 

[sr71plt]

I guess you didn't bother them enough to be worth a nasty letter.

A nasty letter sent where? That would be all bluff anyway, since there's nothing actionable about it. Assuming someone there had even read the story. Getting the drift here?

 

[lovecraft68]

I guess you didn't bother them enough to be worth a nasty letter.

Lit would get "the letter" not the author and it would be an e-mail...

Then again the site's contact us button doesn't work