Strangest Coincidence

[wehstar]

OK, so I sat down Saturday AM to write out a little bit of a story I am toying with writing. It is basically a retelling of an experience I had about 10 years ago, with a bit of elaboration just to make it actually worth reading about!

Now one of the peripheral characters of this tale I have met once - like I said ten years ago. Now I go out on Saturday night, and who do I find myself talking to in the pub - but my peripheral character.

I thought about pointing out to her that I had that morning began writing an erotic tale with her in; but decided that this would more than likely get me arrested. Certainly a restraining order would be a high probablity I would have thought.

The bonus is that I now know her name again, which helps in ensuring that I change it!

This now brings me on to another question - Do we know if there are any lit guidelines about writing about real people? Personally I would change the names of anyone who hasn't expressly granted permission. And what about morals.

And why do I have to keep typing?

 

[oggbashan]

Writing about real people is dangerous in the legal sense.

You could be sued for large sums of money for defaming them. You should change the name and make it clear that the person is NOT real or based on a real person.

I have only used one genuinely real person in any of my stories and she is now dead. The story used a caricature of her but it was probably close enough to be recognised.

I add a disclaimer at the start of my stories.

Og

 

[Lisa Denton]

Unlike Og, who makes it sound like he changed somebodies name and then whacked her to avoid legal ramifications, but I know Og didn't mean it that way he just said it kinda strangely, you can write about somebody without killin em.

Morally of course you would want to change not only the persons name but locations and all kinds of stuffs so nobody would guess, and telling a person you are thinking about writing about them and changin names and locations and asking thier permission is best.

I once wrote a story and then it came true.

Yes, really.

I once read a story and recognized it from what happened to me, I was having a wet dream when I woke up and remembered it. And it was nice so I started fantasizing about it while I was making coffee and stuffs. Since I was now awake I could make it better and better and did. It was really nice and hot, and then I read that in a story. I didn't sue the author foe eightybizillion dollars restitution for stealin my dream/fantasy ....... but I did wonder ..... how the fuck did they know?

It all comes back to that chicken/egg thing, and which came first, the chicken? Or the egg? Or the rooster which came in the chicken?

It can get very confusing and you can get a headache trying to figure it out.

Hope this clears things up.

 

[oggbashan]

Unlike Og, who makes it sound like he changed somebodies name and then whacked her to avoid legal ramifications, but I know Og didn't mean it that way he just said it kinda strangely, you can write about somebody without killin em.
...

It can get very confusing and you can get a headache trying to figure it out.

Hope this clears things up.

But killing the character is SO much more interesting...

Og

 

[CharleyH]

OK, so I sat down Saturday AM to write out a little bit of a story I am toying with writing. It is basically a retelling of an experience I had about 10 years ago, with a bit of elaboration just to make it actually worth reading about!

Now one of the peripheral characters of this tale I have met once - like I said ten years ago. Now I go out on Saturday night, and who do I find myself talking to in the pub - but my peripheral character.

I thought about pointing out to her that I had that morning began writing an erotic tale with her in; but decided that this would more than likely get me arrested. Certainly a restraining order would be a high probablity I would have thought.

The bonus is that I now know her name again, which helps in ensuring that I change it!

This now brings me on to another question - Do we know if there are any lit guidelines about writing about real people? Personally I would change the names of anyone who hasn't expressly granted permission. And what about morals.

And why do I have to keep typing?

Morals on a porn hangout? HOW DARE YOU! I think you should have told her in a polite and confidant - 'no matter to me because I am proud' kind of way - it makes a person interesting. I am sure others have told you about Lit guidelines by now. What morals do you speak of specifically, though?

 

[wehstar]

What morals do you speak of specifically, though?

I wasn't really thinking about morals. The reason for the post was more the bizarre way that having not even thought about someone for ten years, and someone entirely insignificant to you, you bump in to them that evening. The world needs to know about this weird, crazy shit.

With regards to the real people, I had always assumed that if you hide all possible forms of potential identification, then there would be no harm in using past experiences as an aid to making fiction almost realistic. But that just fell out of the keyboard somehow.

 

[R. Richard]

Morals? Morals? Nobody told me I hadda' have morals to be here in Literotica! Whycome they changin' the rules now???

 

[CharleyH]

I wasn't really thinking about morals. The reason for the post was more the bizarre way that having not even thought about someone for ten years, and someone entirely insignificant to you, you bump in to them that evening.

Totallty differant thing, and that is not weird and crazy. Just normal, babe..

 

[Stella_Omega]

I recently remembered an episode that didn't quite happen, about, ooh, ten years ago. Out of the four of us that were- almost- involved, I talk to one person irregularly, and he is a stone freak as we said back in the eighties.

I called him, to corroborate some details, and asked about the other people involved, and he was very enthusiastic about me writing it He gave me his probable reactions, blees the man, he's a great dirty talker, and when I said i would be changing the names to protect the not-quite-guilty, he said; "You can use MY real name," and spelled it for me to make sure I got it right


The Only Problem I see with using his real name and my - nom de-plume, and two made-up names, is that, should the other two people find the story, they will recognise themselves by association with the somewhat notorious dude, and they will NOT be doing what they would normally do, since it was their faults that it all didn't quite happen. So I'm trying to figure that out, because damn, what a good story!

 

[gauchecritic]

And why do I have to keep typing?

Eee by gum, I do like this person. (go read their occupation) (that's not a plural their it's just a none-gender their. Not a hermaphrodite non-gender or ladyboy [or boydilay?] not that there's anything wrong with that. Vandelay, say Vandelay. Serenity now. Yoyoma)

 

[Stella_Omega]

Eee by gum, I do like this person. (go read their occupation) (that's not a plural their it's just a none-gender their. Not a hermaphrodite non-gender or ladyboy [or boydilay?] not that there's anything wrong with that. Vandelay, say Vandelay. Serenity now. Yoyoma)

How are we doing there, gauche?

 

[Lisa Denton]

But killing the character is SO much more interesting...

Og

Ooooh, I see a Og story "cuming"


"Death, Dismemberment, and Dirty Sex"
A comedy by Og


I can't wait to read.

PM me when you post it Og.

 

[gauchecritic]

How are we doing there, gauche?

I occasionally find it amusing to post things that only I find funny.

 

[Stella_Omega]

I occasionally find it amusing to post things that only I find funny.

It's one of the speshul things about you

 

[starrkers]

Eee by gum, I do like this person. (go read their occupation) (that's not a plural their it's just a none-gender their. Not a hermaphrodite non-gender or ladyboy [or boydilay?] not that there's anything wrong with that. Vandelay, say Vandelay. Serenity now. Yoyoma)

Is it wrong that this post makes perfect sense to me?

 

[maggot420]

my fav definition of coincidence...you missed the other half of what was going on.

 

[Guest]

Eee by gum, I do like this person. (go read their occupation) (that's not a plural their it's just a none-gender their. Not a hermaphrodite non-gender or ladyboy [or boydilay?] not that there's anything wrong with that. Vandelay, say Vandelay. Serenity now. Yoyoma)

I like the part about the color printer.

 

[gauchecritic]

I like the part about the color printer.

I think you'll find that it's colour printer.

Not at all Starrkers. Sense is in the mind of the beholder, ask Charley.

 

[Guest]

I think you'll find that it's colour printer.

Silly man.

My spell checker's all over you.