Tackling the I/T Story Arc Differently

[Voyeurkenneth]

Hi all, I’m contemplating a standalone I/T story where there’s already an existing sexual relationship between the family members.

Granted, I’m not an avid IT reader, but my sense though is that most I/T stories lean on the buildup, the gazes, the latent desire coming to a hilt, and the members finally expressing that desire.

Has anyone wrote something in IT they think is “structurally atypical”?

What do you think made your story different?

How was it received?

 

[StillStunned]

Too Cold Not to Fuck has the sex start almost exactly halfway through the 1580 words count. It's rated 4.55 stars, and it's had 158k views. The series as a whole has something like 550k views across six instalments, with the highest rated 4.72.

So I think this is atypical of your perception.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Like you, I'm not an avid IT reader(outside of @StillStunned ). I do think that the dynamic you're investigating is extremely common in areas like T/CD, Gay, and lesbian where a condition or situation exists and the MC has to deal with coming out, so to speak. I've found those stories to be very well received as they innately contain drama and tension, conflict, and hopefully, resolution. All the good juicy bits that keep readers turning pages. The preexisting incestuous relationship just gives you more ammunition to use as you explore the psychological and emotional parts of the story.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Has anyone wrote something in IT they think is “structurally atypical”?

What do you think made your story different?

How was it received?

I'm not really sure what you mean.

My stories, Charli and Aunt Nancy both address it in different ways. Neither is what the usual stuff it as far as I can tell.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I think the challenge you face is maintaining the taboo. IT appeals to people because the characters are struggling with violating a social norm.
Once they've crossed the Rubicon things are different. Unless there is some new tension, say how the other people in their lives react as they find out, or how the characters keep their relationship hidden, then you are really just writing a normal EC or Romance story and labeling it IT.

 

[SimonDoom]

Great question!

I am an avid IT reader and writer. You are absolutely correct. Most IT stories focus upon the crossing of the taboo line. Mine do. Your concept of a story is quite different from most.

To which I say, go for it! Try something different. The challenge for you will be to convey the intense passion and arousal and kinkiness in the context of a relationship that is not new. But challenges are what make writing fun.

 

[Fatdog25]

Not my story, but I recommend it:

https://www.literotica.com/s/chase-and-charli by boomsling.

The relationship isn't preexisting but it is brief in the beginning, followed by separation and reconciliation.

I'm working on a story where there was a preexisting relationship, separation and reconciliation.

I think the reason the story starts where it does needs to be compelling, unless you're really just doing in media res, filling in the beginning later in the story.

 

[NoTalentHack]

A Very Long Engagement had the sibcest pair in bed together within the first 3K words and the little sister's virginity taken by around 5K words of a 12K story; the structural trick was following it up with the brother's overwhelming guilt, followed by the sister's admission that she'd planned to seduce him slowly over the course of a week, but things went off the rails due to... reasons.

 

[MrHereWriting]

Hi all, I’m contemplating a standalone I/T story where there’s already an existing sexual relationship between the family members.

Granted, I’m not an avid IT reader, but my sense though is that most I/T stories lean on the buildup, the gazes, the latent desire coming to a hilt, and the members finally expressing that desire.

Has anyone wrote something in IT they think is “structurally atypical”?

Yep.

What do you think made your story different?

How was it received?

Don't worry about what makes your story different, worry about what makes it good.

I'll give you a few examples using movies.

The Sixth Sense: I was so into the movie I didn't try to find the plot twist.
Unbreakable: I knew Samuel L. Jackson was the bad guy pretty early because the plot/pacing/story didn't suck me in the way The Sixth Sense did.
Fight Club and Primal Fear: The ending twists weren't a surprise, but at the same time, I never tried to look ahead.
The Usual Suspects: Again, I was so into the movie that ending was a surprise.
Angel Heart: I knew who Mickey Rourke's character was going to be early on.

As for books, the one that comes to mind is The Girl on the Train. I enjoyed that book a lot, and I remember thinking the alcoholic MC can't be as bad as she's been told, but instead of looking ahead, I read it chapter by chapter because I didn't want to ruin the outcome for myself. (If a book isn't that interesting, I have no problem looking ahead in case I lose interest.)

You may not be writing a plot twist, but that wasn't the point. The point is that if your story pulls your reader in, it's not going to matter that the I/T relationship has already been going on before the book started. Different doesn't mean good or interesting, good means good, and that means the work as a whole.

 

[RetroFan]

Hi all, I’m contemplating a standalone I/T story where there’s already an existing sexual relationship between the family members.

Granted, I’m not an avid IT reader, but my sense though is that most I/T stories lean on the buildup, the gazes, the latent desire coming to a hilt, and the members finally expressing that desire.

Has anyone wrote something in IT they think is “structurally atypical”?

What do you think made your story different?

How was it received?

Your ideas sound very interesting, I've tried lots of different story ideas in Incest Taboo.

My April Fools story this year - The Tale of the Too Close Twins - was narrated by an unrelated character who doesn't take part in the incest but observes odd things with his friends who are a twin brother and sister and wonders how close they really are, before seeing them have sex and having his suspicions confirmed.

I also wrote a Crime and Punishment story last year (Perving On My Virgin Cousins) narrated by a young man who cannot keep out of trouble at home, at school and in the community and after being arrested one night is banished to another city in another state to live with his aunt, uncle and cousins (identical twin girls) who are fundamentalist/Evangelical Christians. Although the narrator does reform his wayward ways, he cannot stop himself perving on his pretty twin cousins, but part of what turns him on about the girls is that they are virgins committed to remaining 'pure' until they get married. Given that the young man wants to stay out of more trouble, the two girls have serious boyfriends (with whom they have taken abstinence pledges) and that his biggest turn on about his cousins is their virginity, he keeps to voyeurism and there is no actual sex.

I've written lots of different ideas for the category - a body swap comedy, a slacker/surfer-dude comedy like those in the late 80s and early 90s, a 'creature feature' where a male cousin has to save his pretty cousin when she is abducted by Bigfoot, an eerie urban exploring story for a brother and sister - plus come up with lots of different IT scenarios that don't come up very often (half siblings with large age gap, double first cousins, mirror image twins, triplets, foster siblings) as just some examples. The IT readers haven't always liked the ideas - especially my attempts to make them laugh - but I'll always try and write something different, and I hope you do too.

 

[8letters]

Hi all, I’m contemplating a standalone I/T story where there’s already an existing sexual relationship between the family members.

Granted, I’m not an avid IT reader, but my sense though is that most I/T stories lean on the buildup, the gazes, the latent desire coming to a hilt, and the members finally expressing that desire.

Has anyone wrote something in IT they think is “structurally atypical”?

What do you think made your story different?

How was it received?

What is common is that two members of a family are already having sex, and they decide to seduce one or more additional family members. Two for Mom is a recently published story of that variety and has a 4.85 rating.

My story My Lingerie-Loving Sister Moves In has as its first paragraph the narrator describing have sex with his sister one time and how it was an absolute disaster. That story has a 4.85 rating.

If this is the story you want to write, then write it. Back to what MrHereWriting wrote, if you have a great story, tell it. Being atypical will make your story stand out.

Do I think it would be challenging to make a standalone story where there’s already an existing sexual relationship between the family members appealing to I/T readers? Yes. I think it would have to have two tracks where there's a great plot unrelated to sex, and then a secondary track about the existing sexual relationship between the family members. Maybe the main character is tasked with saving a royal family member from a planned assassination. To do it, she needs help from her various family members. She's had sex with them before, and they'll only help her if she has sex with them again.

Edit: After reading one of NotWise's story, I realized that you can do well with an existing sexual relationship if you make the story about them adding another to their relationship. In his story, the mom and son decide to add a girl he meet to the relationship.

 

[NotWise]

My stories A Christmas Tart and Working for Mom both start in pre-existing mom-son sexual relationships. The readers are OK with it.

 

[Rob_Royale]

It would have the benefit of being rarely done, I'll give you that.
Maybe a mom witnesses her sister sleeping with her son and its very voyeuristic. When she confronts her sister, it all comes out and her sister isn't the least bit ashamed or sorry. In fact, she's happy to set her up with her son if she's interested in having the fuck of her life. She leaves her sister in huff and walks out feeling humiliated as her sister laughs.
But for the next week it's all she can think of, until she sees her own son's body as he gets out of their pool. For the first time she sees a man.

This way it can start as a pre-existing for one character and then a new one for another. Sort of the best of both worlds.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Barbara's tale will be coming up soon.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Barbara's tale will be coming up soon.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

New I/T on the 29th.




Note: Not a masterpiece.



(And I just put it up a few hours ago.)

 

[Jorunn]

I think the challenge you face is maintaining the taboo. IT appeals to people because the characters are struggling with violating a social norm.
Once they've crossed the Rubicon things are different. Unless there is some new tension, say how the other people in their lives react as they find out, or how the characters keep their relationship hidden, then you are really just writing a normal EC or Romance story and labeling it IT.

My Sister the Sorority Cowgurl goes live tomorrow. I agree with the need to keep up the tension. This is a follow-up to my Summer Lovin story. For the new one, the older sister wants to have sex someplace outdoors on campus, but cannot find a perfect spot that is not exposed, so they have to evade the watchful eyes of the Sorority Mother, campus police, and two other sorority members who can link the brother with the sister.

I included a 'what is forever' chapter as well, as the siblings confront a future that seems less certain as the afterglow fades. We'll see how that plays.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Mine has no tension.

Life is full of tension. Lit need not be.

 

[Fatdog25]

My Sister the Sorority Cowgurl goes live tomorrow. I agree with the need to keep up the tension. This is a follow-up to my Summer Lovin story. For the new one, the older sister wants to have sex someplace outdoors on campus, but cannot find a perfect spot that is not exposed, so they have to evade the watchful eyes of the Sorority Mother, campus police, and two other sorority members who can link the brother with the sister.

I included a 'what is forever' chapter as well, as the siblings confront a future that seems less certain as the afterglow fades. We'll see how that plays.

I enjoyed the first story and I'll be looking for this one. It's definitely in my wheelhouse.

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

It would have the benefit of being rarely done, I'll give you that.
Maybe a mom witnesses her sister sleeping with her son and its very voyeuristic. When she confronts her sister, it all comes out and her sister isn't the least bit ashamed or sorry. In fact, she's happy to set her up with her son if she's interested in having the fuck of her life. She leaves her sister in huff and walks out feeling humiliated as her sister laughs.
But for the next week it's all she can think of, until she sees her own son's body as he gets out of their pool. For the first time she sees a man.

This way it can start as a pre-existing for one character and then a new one for another. Sort of the best of both worlds.

I really like your concept. You should write it! I’d check it out. Though personally, I’d prefer the mom being set up with her nephew, and the two awkwardly negotiating how to go about the deed.

Thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts. It’s given me good food for thought!

 

[Rob_Royale]

Although, I don't mind chatting about it, I don't do incest within the nuclear family. It's a personal thing.