Stop me if you've heard this before

[atariblue]

Stop me if you've heard this one before

Lit is a wonderous and exciting playground filled to the brim with sexy pictures, ideas, and stories. Which makes me think has every possible story idea been used? Now, I know this isn't even possible. There's always room for different takes on old ideas, a new twist on the classic tropes, and some new idea is always hiding under a rock waiting to be uncovered. But with all the babysitters, and school girls, and dads and moms, and strangers, and awkward situations, and Santas you start to think well maybe it's gotta be true.

So, unless your story doesn't have magician aliens with ten foot penises from planet "yet to be named" or weregnomes from Dimension X who sneak into unsuspecting women's house and lick, suck, and nibble their victims to orgasm then you're just like 99.9% of the people writting on Lit. But maybe thats not a bad thing, considering the alternative.

My question to you is do you every feel this way?

Ps. Feel free to use any one of those ideas.

 

[Everyday_Man]

I've found that I can read any story out there and compare it to something else, TV shows & movies as well. So long as it isn't word for word and I find it interesting, then I don't mind reading similar ideas. And, for your alien and magic stuff, I could always find some Hentai.

 

[jaF0]

I read somewhere that there are only about a dozen or so distinctly different story lines for most TV shows and that most shows are a mixture or retreatment of one or more of them.

Probably the same for here.

 

[Carnevil9]

It's not a yes or no question; it's a matter of degree.

On the one hand, most stories can be lumped into a small number of categories, tropes, or cliches. On the other end of the scale, each story has things that make it unique, although these may be very small things, such as the writing style of the author or a preference to say "glad" instead of "happy" and such.

Which only means that you can both agree and disagree, all at the same time, with the idea of a finite number of story possibilities. Yes, most every story will probably remind you of a dozen other stories. But it will also have some important characteristics of its own that make it worthy of standing with the previous ones. As a writer, this is very liberating: you don't have to worry about coming up with a totally new idea. You just have to focus on making the story your own in your own special way.

 

[Sean Renaud]

The reality is it's probably been a few centuries since anybody had a truly original idea. Stop me if you've heard this one before. A baby is put a vessel to and sent away, the baby is found raised amongst a different culture and eventually learns about his roots and becomes a hero. Am I taking about Kal-el the Superman? Kakkarot the Saiyan? Moses the Jew?

Here's one scientists messing around something they probably shouldn't created a misunderstood monster and then lots of people tried to kill it. Spice? The Incredible Hulk? Frankenstein? I could do this all day mind you.

So yes every story has been told and honestly between the Bible and ancient mythology most of them were first told in the BC era. As Carn correctly points out though there is a lot of wiggle room within these stories. Dragonball Z and Superman are entirely different stories despite the loads and loads of similiarities.

 

[hashtag45]

So, unless your story doesn't have magician aliens with ten foot penises from planet "yet to be named" or weregnomes from Dimension X who sneak into unsuspecting women's house and lick, suck, and nibble their victims to orgasm then you're just like 99.9% of the people writting on Lit. But maybe thats not a bad thing, considering the alternative.

My question to you is do you every feel this way?

Ps. Feel free to use any one of those ideas.

Lol this guy is comedy gold…
But he also comes up with interesting topics

 

[atariblue]

Lol this guy is comedy gold…
But he also comes up with interesting topics

Thank you hssh345! I like to think sex and comedy go hand in hand. I'll do my best to continue delivering the comedy gold

 

[Sean Renaud]

You really are wasted on story ideas.

Yes, comedy and sex do go together fairly well. I think the "problem" you have is that your ideas tend to fall into that wonderful gray area where they kinda sorta sound like serious ideas.

 

[LadyVer]

Lit is a wonderous and exciting playground filled to the brim with sexy pictures, ideas, and stories. Which makes me think has every possible story idea been used? Now, I know this isn't even possible. There's always room for different takes on old ideas, a new twist on the classic tropes, and some new idea is always hiding under a rock waiting to be uncovered. But with all the babysitters, and school girls, and dads and moms, and strangers, and awkward situations, and Santas you start to think well maybe it's gotta be true.

So, unless your story doesn't have magician aliens with ten foot penises from planet "yet to be named" or weregnomes from Dimension X who sneak into unsuspecting women's house and lick, suck, and nibble their victims to orgasm then you're just like 99.9% of the people writting on Lit. But maybe thats not a bad thing, considering the alternative.

My question to you is do you every feel this way?

Ps. Feel free to use any one of those ideas.

I'm not sure where you're going. Are you looking for story ideas or people agreeing they're sick and tired of the same repetitive crap?

 

[atariblue]

I'm not sure where you're going. Are you looking for story ideas or people agreeing they're sick and tired of the same repetitive crap?

None of the above. Trust me I have ideas in spades. I just wanted a build up so I could introduce the topics of well endowed magical aliens and weregnomes who sexually gratify unsuspecting women.

 

[LadyVer]

Post your story premises, or you're on the wrong forum, Einstein.

 

[atariblue]

Post your story premises, or you're on the wrong forum, Einstein.

If you look at my story posts you will see they are just that, story ideas. I always have a premise and plot. But I do appreciate the input.

 

[LadyVer]

If you look at my story posts you will see they are just that, story ideas. I always have a premise and plot. But I do appreciate the input.

 

[Curious_2]

Stop

 

[Curious_2]

J/k

 

[000zing]

Yes folks... it's back by popular demand... the 'let's resurrect ten year old threads' idea...

 

[StillStunned]

Let's hope the OP has found one or two original stories during the past decade.

 

[NuclearFairy]

weregnomes from Dimension X who sneak into unsuspecting women's house and lick, suck, and nibble their victims to orgasm

Not gonna lie, that sounds like a fun sexy read.

 

[Tio_Narratore]

Yeah, let's not repeat that old tale of the woman under the apple tree. You know, the woman who stood there and looked down between her legs and declared how wonderful her vulva was. No wonder she decided to go visit the god of wisdom and drink him under the table before betting together with her bull, Dumuzi, to get a load of his man cream. Oh that was Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth. Were you thinking of Eve and the tree of knowledge? Sorry, I lean more towards the Mesopotamians . . .

 

[StillStunned]

I'm as guilty as anyone, I admit. Man is pressured by his supplier to become involved a cyberworld he's sworn off, to rescue the supplier's innocent sister who's trying to sell a gang an unending connection to the cyberworld... It's a tale we've heard a thousand times.

 

[Rob_Royale]

It's erotica and pretty much every plot has been done. It's the characters and the settings that's sets our stories apart. It's the parts of our experiences that we've tucked into the paragraphs that makes things feel fresh and original.

 

[Husky_Embrace]

It's erotica and pretty much every plot has been done. It's the characters and the settings that's sets our stories apart. It's the parts of our experiences that we've tucked into the paragraphs that makes things feel fresh and original.

That's the whole truth isn't it? We can write up a thousand acts of sex. They don't really matter, unless packaged well. All those sex acts are a boring grey slab of clay. Only when we shape it, put things on it, paint it, it'll be something worth reading. A cock in a pussy hardly has any meaning, but like the cock splitting her folds it can become a hot topic of debate that splits the community when we say one belongs to a brother and the other a sister. The shape and dressing up of our story it everything.

If people are interested in continuing the topic: everything is a remix. Even so I think there's plenty of ways to remix an original story. I have an idea lingering in my head I'm sure isn't on Lit yet, but certainly has themes, settings and positions that have all come before. I would say it's unique. In the unlikely scenario it does already exist, I think it is original regardless, because it's original to myself.

Brandon Sanderson once said he thought he had made unique and interesting sorcerers that could fly with a metal coin or something. When he showed it to someone they said "oh like Magneto in the X-Men."