Questioning my characters' moral codes.

[MzDeviancy]

Two people now have accused my female characters of loose morals. Both of them also insinuated that my heroines' sluttiness is also quite probably a reflection of my own.

I don't know if I find this funny or something else.

 

[Guest]

Two people now have accused my female characters of loose morals. Both of them also insinuated that my heroines' sluttiness is also quite probably a reflection of my own.

I don't know if I find this funny or something else.

please find some humor in it
life is too short to take that schtuff seriously

 

[CopyCarver]

Tell them that you've decrypted the Satanic messages that they've embedded in their tirades, and that you're reporting them to their mommies.

 

[dizzylia]

please find some humor in it
life is too short to take that schtuff seriously

Very well said.


It always amazes me just how many people are unable to tell Real Life from Fiction.


-dizzy

 

[elsol]

Uh... I hope they never read my stories then.

'Cause I'd have the

a) Local Police
b) State Police
c) FBI
d) ATF
e) Serial Killer Task Force


knocking my door down.

Not to mention, my girlfriend would becomes absolutely convinced I have something for her sister... most of my heroines are blonde and blue-eyed, the girlfriend has brown-hair hazel eyes but her sister is blonde-blue-eyed...

I could be in some REAL trouble then!

---

ps. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH WOMEN OF LOOSE MORALS!!!

If i'm on a date, better a woman of loose morals than someone who only wants to want G-rated movies.


Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[S-Des]

You know I enjoy your stories, so I won't say anything negative. For me though, it's important to mix up my male characters, so I'm not being too repetitive (or feeding my ego about how cool I am in my mind). A couple of my stories had the male character as such a bad-ass that he was taking down whole groups of bad guys (definitely Freudian). One had a normal guy who lucked into a beautiful relationship. Just to keep things different, the new one has a guy who's a complete geek and is even publicly beaten and humiliated by the bad guy. I never want anyone to know what to expect from my writing.

You can do whatever you want, for whatever reasons you like. Maybe you're trying to say something with your characters behavior, maybe it's just for fun. The question is, would you like to write something with a different type of character? Once you decide that, follow your heart. Although you should listen to people's opinions, remember that there are a lot more people who have different opinions who haven't taken the time to write. Plus, if you try something you don't believe in and it's not very good, that commentor will be the first to tear you down. Just be yourself and you'll be fine.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Two people now have accused my female characters of loose morals. Both of them also insinuated that my heroines' sluttiness is also quite probably a reflection of my own.

I don't know if I find this funny or something else.

me, I keep being accused of being a man...

it would be news to my husband!

 

[oggbashan]

What do they expect in Literotica?

This is a site for erotica.

If some of the characters could not be accused of 'loose morals' there would be very little erotica on the site.

By some people's standards, to visit this site at all is to justify our condemnation to damnation and eternal hell fire.

Let your characters hang everything out and damn the blue meanies!

Og

 

[rgraham666]

Remember what Jerry Pournelle said about this situation.

"There is a word for people who mistake a character's mind set for the authour's. That word is 'idiot'."

 

[Recidiva]

People do this to me all the time.

I think the concept of "imagination" and "play" and "fantasy" got lost somewhere for many people.

Along with "sense of humor" and "keep it to yourself"

 

[Dinsmore]

People love or hate our characters

I am surprised at how often---considering that we are trying to write erotic fiction---that some will not like my characters' moral frameworks:

"Frank is a real jerk and and ass hole."

"Janet is a slut; you know she is going to cheat on him down the road."

"Bill is too good to be true; no one is that nice."

I even had someone tell me they stopped reading a story on page one because of the coarse language. First the language reflected the "voice" of the character and second, what are we trying to write again?

I've often used male protagonists who sleep around indiscriminately and then finally meet the woman of their dreams and change. Female characters who enjoy sex and are not ashamed of it are more interesting to write about in this genre.

I recall a woman who, in her youth, slept with just about everyone I could think of...not me, we were just good friends. Then she fell in love, got married, had a family and as far as I can determine for the last twenty-two years has slept with exactly one guy.

More often than not our critics read a given story and it is not the kind of story they enjoy so they feel compelled to rip it. Others just have to put down any effort we submit. They seldom sign them and when they do it's typical that they have never submitted anything of their own.

So, if I like what I've written---and writing for me has a lot to do with what I get out if it---and the response is generally favorable and then one person out of the 17,000 that reads it isn't happy, so be it.

The most frustrating comments? When it appears that the critic either didn't "get it" or seems to have a boiler plate crtique style and their specific comments don't seem to have much to do with the story in question.

Sometimes I inject things into a story intended to piss someone off; it's just too much fun not to do so!

Wrapping up this rant, a note on editing: why did you ask me to look at your story, which was not much of a story and in its current form is impossible to edit when you are going to ignore and deny item by item virtually ever editing comment I provided? Just wondering...

 

[Dinsmore]

Exactly!!!

Very well said.


It always amazes me just how many people are unable to tell Real Life from Fiction.


-dizzy

What part of the words erotic fiction don't some people understand?

 

[Recidiva]

It's a question of thinking it through.

Well, in order to commit some sexual act that might be deviant, might be fantasy worthy, might be nonconsent, I'm probably going to have to add something (rage, passion, fury) or take something away (morals, trust, respect) in order to get there reasonably.

"You seem awfully mad" kind of misses the point.

Although I suppose it's a compliment that I put something there that's not me, and they think it is.

Sometimes when I was in a play people would tell me the part "was written for me"

Well, no. I'm just trying to work hard and not look that way. But thank you. If the point of art is to make it appear effortless, yeah, I can take it as an insult. It robs me of my talent, but I guess the deception worked. "Do you know how hard it is for me to work on that mindset, accent and motivation?"

No, clearly not. Okay.

 

[lil_elvis]

Very well said.


It always amazes me just how many people are unable to tell Real Life from Fiction.


-dizzy

You mean...the stories here aren't true?

 

[Dinsmore]

Not true...you must be joking!

You mean...the stories here aren't true?

Of course they are true!

 

[CopyCarver]

Edith Bunker Belated Uptake

Oh, it my was earlier post in this thread that you mentioned in your PM. No, not drunk-I was just hoping that you might get a mood lift from a smart-assed response that was as abysmally stupid as your critics.

 

[Sex and Death]

Of course they are true!

All stories are true...and some actually even happened.