Stories based on real life

[PandemicReader8]

I find that parts of real life creep into my fiction, both intentionally and unwittingly. It's our experience and we draw on that to inform everything from what a character senses to what happens to them and how they respond.

 

[Bramblethorn]

When my Stormwatch series talks about events in Josh Gravley's military career, those are actual event that happened to USAF weapons guys. His incident on an AC-130 gunship came from gunners I worked for and worked with. I didn't put their whole story in my story, my readers would never believe it. John Levitow is the only enlisted man in the USAF to get the Medal of Honor and his story reads like a dark fantasy.

I think "first" rather than "only"? Looking at https://www.afhistory.af.mil/History/Medal-of-Honor-AF-Cross-Silver-Star/ there seem to be a handful of others e.g.:

https://www.afhistory.af.mil/FAQs/F...9596/pitsenbarger-a1c-william-h-pitsenbarger/

 

[Duleigh]

You're right, first. I apologize

 

[Emilymcplugger]

How often do you find yourself writing stories based on real life events, with only minimal fictionalizing? I’ve found it’s a good way to… confess? For lack of a better word

https://www.literotica.com/s/jess-and-the-country-boy

Don’t base on real life at all.

My life is so dull that it would not interest anyone, including me. Everything I write is totally fictional and imaginary.

 

[Duleigh]

My On The Job story, "Pilots Conscent Switch" will have a lot of what my life used to be like

 

[Seadog777]

In every single one of my stories, there is at least one thing that IS real.
Name, place, situation, etc.

 

[Bunnymaster]

The sex in mine is something I've experienced or it comes close to my experiences. For instance "Margaret's Experimental Orgasms" is a contrived situation but the sexually responsive Margaret was based on a real woman I was involved with at the time of publication. I think if we're going to write well we have to write about what we know (I know this is a writing cliche but it's also true).

How many times have you started sink your teeth into what you hope will be a good smutty story, only to ask yourself if the author has ever had actual sex with a human?

 

[ronde]

About half of my stories are based on either real life experiences and observations, usually with a healthy dose of "what if" or "I wonder" turning those experiences and observations into a story that could at least be plausible. The rest are based upon research into what might be possible given the current technology and political climate. Those stories are also heavily shaded by my life's experience with people and how I might react to any given situation if I had that characters personality.

 

[blozo]

When you get to be my age, no stories are based on real life. I haven't had a real sex life in so long it's hard to remember.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I frequent several locally owned restaurants where the owners know that I write, and I have used their establishments as scene settings in some of my previous stories.

In this new story, there is a post-courtroom scene where a team of lawyers have lunch together. I am not as familiar with the areas around the county courthouse, so I used Google maps and Yelp to help me research actual establishments close by. The place I chose looks interesting, like the kind of place that my wife and I might eat at, so the scene is written and pretty much ignored as I moved on to other scenes.

Eating dinner at our favorite Italian restaurant last evening (also with a scene in the upcoming story), we're sitting at the bar next to another couple. The owner of the Italian place informs us that our bar neighbors own a couple of restaurants near the county courthouse, He introduces us by showing them the autographed copy of one of my books that he keeps behind the bar. I ask them which restaurants they own...

So, now I get to go back and re-write the lunch scene after being invited for a personal tour of the place by the owners and an offer for us to sample their menu ourselves to better describe them in my story.

Story research can be such an ordeal sometimes.

 

[nice90sguy]

I'm a bit fuzzy on the whole "real life" thing. I blame porn.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Mine tend to feature fictionalized adventures with women I have known or admired in my life. That lovely, tall, plus-sized blonde computer engineer I knew ten years ago? She just had a great cruise adventure. The older woman who ran the hobby store when I was a young man? She just fell in love with her young employee. And so on.

I don't have a sexual history with any of them, but they left an impression on my libido, making them much more fun to write about.

 

[oneagainst]

It still cracks me up that William Gibson wrote Neuromancer on a typewriter. Cyberspace, neural interfaces, all of it just came out of his head. Everything I write is fiction, the autobiographical stuff appears as embellishments, flushing out characters. Because when I talk to misc. family member in real life, the shit that went down makes my most hard-core storylines look like Disney. Sometimes real life is beyond belief.

 

[Imstillfun]

Besides having 4 true stories and 3 embellished, I tend to write about things I’m familiar with. Trade shows, trap meets, motorcycle groups, marina living, las Vegas, Hawaii, B&Bs, office parties….

I find it irritating reading about a swing club’ when it’s obvious the person has never been. Or reading about what people think Hedonism II is when it’s obvious they’ve never been.

in every scene I can picture the location and surrounding scenery. I picture spots where I’ve been as I write my stories and write them in. Even the dress stores and boutiques I write about I’ve been to. I own or owned many of the clothes I describe.

I get a lot of feedback on how my stories are believable. I think it’s this element of truth that makes the, that way. The reader does not have to suspend reality about the location and surrounding scenario..

id say my relationships such as cuckold, hot wife, swingers, come from. People I know. I once tried to write a story with someone else. We were going to write 2 stories mine from the woman’s perspective and one from the man’s.

I wrote the first one, he attempted the second. It was supposed to be a hot wife story. He could not write the man’s part without the man feeling left out and wanting other women. That’s not how hot wife couples feel. He couldn’t understand the relationship because he didn’t know any hot wife couples.

when I describe any kind of group sex it’s believable because I’ve had and seen group sex. I’ve been with multiple men at one time, I’ve been with a woman, so those scenes are easy to write.

even some things that seem unreal are real. For example Tori’s Tale I describe a gauzy almost see through wedding dress. She actually wore that dress at her wedding.

so there are quite a few elements of truth in all my stories.

 

[Northern_Writer]

My stories generally start with an event or comment in real life that makes me think, "What if this followed from that..." and off I go on a fictional jaunt. The only story I posted here was like that, the ex asked a question and I answered it honestly (i.e. nothing happened) but it made me think and resulted in the story. I had no problem with the low score or critiques of the story, but I was amazed at the responses that assumed or implied that it was an account of a real occurance.

 

[DrHappy]

I have lots of fond memories of things that happened sexually in real life. However, I want my recreational sexual fiction to be more exciting than that. If I’m going spend the time and effort to write something, I want something like the erotic equivalent of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Only one has a sizeable chunk of real life. Most of the others will have a snippet, even if it's just a line someone said that helped kick off a story. E.g. "For fuck's sake, Johnno, lower. Hit me lower. And hard." Jen stepped back and slapped her boobs. "This is the target area in a fight. Those punches at the shoulder will be called for being too high every single time. You could slip and punch the head. Stop it."

 

[SirBurnInside]

Most of my stories have some degree of reality in them, although it's minor at best. They were inspired by things that had been told to me rather than things I was involved in myself, but my story 'Controlling Deborah' was closest to being real in that I did have a "relationship" exactly like that with an older woman once upon a time, but what I had the female character do in the story was all fictional and intended to make it more exciting for the reader.

 

[KeithD]

Most of mine have a little something from real life, but none of them are fully reality-based.

This is close to my circumstance. I knocked off the "I wish" part because I'm fine with my life experiences.