things you are uncomfortable writing about

[Guest]

Recently I posted a story. It has become a serial story of sorts. In the third chapter, when I posted, it became "extreme" due to beastiality. While writing this particular part, I discovered that I am not 1). capable of writing about this type of act.
2). able to envision this type of act
3). a writer who is able to write about all things.
I guess that my question is, do other writers have problems with characters seeming to go in one direction, and you as a writer finding out that maybe, just maybe, you can't or aren't willing to go in the characters direction. (As you might have guessed, the characters tend to lead me in the writing of the story!)

My story, by the way,http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=45454

The third part hasn't shown up in the "extreme", and I have rewritten it, leaving out the animals. I actually feel better about this version (without animals), and I am re-reading the origional version and can't believe I went there!

 

[SexyChele]

Yes, I've had this happen a time or two! I normally think about my characters - what type of people they are - and a basic premise for the story. After that, the characters take over and I write where they go. And sometimes they go into some very strange places!

I've also found this happens at various times for me, so I'm learning to deal with it. For instance, the closer I get to my period the more bizarre and "extreme" my own personal fantasies become. I've found I reflect that in my writing, so I usually avoid writing around that time, unless I do so for just me or my partner. When I go back and read what I've written, I can't believe I didn't gross myself out!

Some of my personal taboos (and they are only mine, so there! ) are:

1. Beastiality. At one level it is appealing, but writing it? Naw, I don't think so.

2. Violent rape. Gives me the shivers. Though I do find non-consent that leads to the female into either enjoying being taken or the male falling for her totally within my boundaries.

3. Pedophilia. For obvious reasons.

4. Male submissiveness. I am a female submissive to male dominants, so I have a difficult time seeing men in submissive sexual roles. Though, I have to admit, I'm going to try and tackle this subject in the next story I write. Just hope I can do it convincingly!

5. Murder or "snuff". I have no problems writing stories where one of the characters dies from, say, an illness. But I do know of people who are into the whole "snuff" erotica, and I just can't go there.

Well, those are just a couple from me.

 

[CHEWEY]

Re: Uncomfortable about some things also!

Chele, I would have to agree with you on your list except the Dom thing I was called a narrow minded Bitch cause I would not write Incest stories. I lived it, I damn sure am not gunna write about it I also am not into humility although to a point, I do like to dominate. I'm not a good sub I can't even imagine golden showers or scat--maybe I am old LOL. But, to each his own but for me it's not exciting. I will NEVER write about any of these things just so someone can whack off to what i think is horrible Have a good day

 

[Ray Dario]

I am uncomfortable writing about midgets having sex with albino chickens. Not sure why but whenever this subject comes up over the dinner table I just get kinda quiet. I think it's something from my childhood. A memory just out of reach.

Ray

 

[KillerMuffin]

I can write about anything I have the knowledge to write about. If I know enough about the subject to piece a story together, I can write about it.

I won't write about pedophilia anymore.
I don't write about sex with animals cause it's just gross and completely wrong.

Everything else is fair game. I've written "snuff" before, though it wasn't sexual. I've written "rape" before. An Acidic Tiger is a dumbing down of a bunch of stories about rape.

I used to write pedophilia. But never for anyone's consumption but my own and the only thing I used it for was catharsis. The pedo I wrote was about my father.

 

[jon.hayworth]

I am not going to write a list of what I am uncomfortable with writing. What I do find is, that it is easier to write about things which fall within the realms of my own experience, than to describe those activities that are solely products of my imagination.

Having said that, I do believe that it is a part of the writer's craft and skills, to be able to research a subject and write about it even though it falls outside the realms of our own experiences.

That is the reason I am taking part in the Survivor Contest - it is a challenge which developes my skills. - By choice I would never have written a Lesbian or Gay Male story, the contest has forced me to write those stories.

As for stories running away with you - the imagination is a wonderfully powerful thing, but like a powerful car if you do not keep it under control it will take you into dangerous areas.

If you want to be able to call yourself a good writer I think you have to go into those areas you are not happy with, even if it is only to say you can do it if required.

jon

 

[curious2c]

I had some "Feedback" on this from readers. I got one where the idea was sort of put in my head. The direction sounded interesting and I thought Yeah, why not? While writing though, I discovered that my ability was hampered due to the content. The more I wrote on this the more "Squicky" I felt. I don't regret writing it, just not sticking with my first instincts and keeping it out of this "extreme" area. I had/have a following, and the third part isn't posted in extreme yet, and my readers don't know, so I am getting "more,more!" feedback responses. that is why I rewrote chapter three, hopefully I can get back on track. BTW. we were just talking about albino chickens, and their merits the other night! LOL

 

[KillerMuffin]

Curious, you're registered on the board as well. It's just your author name and author password. They're strongly linked.

 

[Ray Dario]

I've written "snuff" before, though it wasn't sexual.

Snuff? I thought that was finely ground tobacco, used for dipping. You know Skoal and Coppenhagen?

Judging from the context though I would say this is about dead things. Ewww necrophilia! Now I'm a tolerant person and all. Hell if it don't hurt me or my kin, I say go for it, but this?

Take my word for it. If you wake up in the middle of the night and think to yourself, "Shit, I just gotta go out to the graveyard and dig me up some woman been dead eighteen years and stick my thang in her maggot infested snatch." And this makes you hard... Buddy you need to see a psychiatrist in a hurry! And make sure he gives you the good drugs cause that is just sick!

Oh and Jon, if you can write a story about necrophilia and make it really erotic, then you ARE one hell of a good writer. I sure as hell will never be THAT good.

Sorry I got to go puke my guts out now!

Ray

 

[jon.hayworth]

Ray,

For the record, I did not mention Snuff stories or necrophilia!

However I believe a good writer should be able to overcome personal feelings. If not logically you would say that only psychopaths could write about psychopathic killers, Hitmen about hitmen etc.

Writing involves the use of the imagination - it also involves being able to compartmentalise. When I write a historical a part of my imagination is moving in that time, I can smell the smells, hear the sounds etc. But I drive my car not a chariot, cook on an electric cooker not an open fire.

I don't want to write a snuff story, but then not being a Christian I would not want to write a "Ladies Devotional" however if I was commissioned to do so I could and I would. (Make your offers!)

However I respect that others may not share my attitude.

jon

 

[Ray Dario]

Jon,

I appologize. I didn't mean to be diss'n you at all and I wasn't accusing you of mentioning necrophilia. I agree that writers should write and should be able to write about things outside their personal experience.

All I was saying is that it would be VERY hard for anyone to write a story about necrophilia and make it erotic, at least to me.

Again, I appologize, my sense of humor is often only funny to me. It is a character flaw, I admit.

Ray

 

[KillerMuffin]

Just for you, Ray

He'd never felt so alone. In the depths of the cool, cryptish darkness he wiped his hands with a rag soaked in clorox. He didn't think it would work now, it had never worked before. He shut his eyes and thought of sunny Sondra with flashing eyes and bright hair. She'd dumped him like yesterday's kitty litter years ago. Last night had been worse. He'd worked up the nerve to go out and struck up a conversation with a lovely young woman. She had smiled, sniffed the air, and moved on.

The smell of death that had driven her off clung to him in a way that he found comfortable now. He'd spent too many years in the morgue as a low level peon. Dreams of becoming a famous ME had been purged as body after body had been passed on to his care.

Speaking of bodies . . .

He tossed the rag onto the stainless steel counter and meandered over to one waiting for him on the slab. The ME had finished her up, all that was left was the clean up. He hummed to himself while he took care of her. He knew that somewhere she probably appreciated the meticulous care he took to make sure she was presentable for the funeral. Women were usually concerned with appearance.

Something caught his eye, something about her nakedness struck him in a way that he'd never considered in all of the time he'd been sewing up after the ME. He cast an eye around the empty room and then ran his finger over her flesh, finding it soft and a little resilient.

If she'd been breathing she'd never give him the time of day. As she was, peacefully still, she needed him.

****

I'ma stop here. I'm supposed to be writing Java.

 

[Ray Dario]

Sheeee It KM,


Good writing, but not erotic. That sucked me in, I wanted to read more, but just the thought of that character down there in the morgue, shrunk me up so small I may have to find a pair of tweezers before I can take a piss.

Ewww, makes my skin crawl like reading Stephen King during a funeral. Wait that belongs on another thread

Ray

 

[Guest]

Curious2c,
Like you, I have a hard time writing about things that I have no experience with. It's a little limiting. None of us can know and be everything. So we're left to either write from experiences or to invent believable scenes and experiences. And the latter takes me a lot more time and energy.

I hesitate to put time and energy into building a story that I am not going to like.

About a year ago I did try to write something from a post on the Story Ideas board. Someone had posted an idea, as best I recall now, about a white female teacher who is tricked into becoming a whore for some of her (adult) black male high school students.

It turned out to be difficult. I eventually wrote "Slave Whore Teacher."
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=14613
And when I finished, I didn't like it. But, still, the guy had asked for a story, so I posted it.

In my other stories I have stretched and exaggerated from experience. The mundane might be interesting if done well, but I can't write that well (and clearly not as well as you). So I put a stretch on this or that to compensate for my marvelous ability to be boring.

Sometimes, because my memory is lousy, I have also had to partially invent scenes and personalities.

These are the cases, especially in "Bar 69: True Story" and "After Bar 69: True Story."

There may be new versions of both of these posted. I slightly rewrote both of them. But the old stories are still there:

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=20661
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=20662

These 2 stories were rewritten partly to fit two added sequels, one title "On-Camera After Bar 69" and the other had its title shortened to "Black Sex Party." The former has not yet gotten posted. The latter is at:
http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=47450

Nudemodel

 

[wildsweetone]

*thinking*

maybe it's uncomfortable because i know i could write it too well...

do i stamp down the enticing anticipation or do i put head down, arse up and write that which wretchedly torments and teases the soul? god, it's scary contemplating a good end result.

controversy could rip me to shreds, timidness could stunt my growth.

 

[damppanties]

read vs. write

I wouldn't have as much problem writing about something I didn't like as compared to when I read about something I don't like. When I am writing about a particular subject and even if the subject or theme is unappealing, I can write about it in a way which makes it acceptable to me. Of course, I am much more comfortable about staying away from what I consider gross, but I could do it if it ever came to that.

-DP.

 

[whiteboy]

won't write...

Jeesh this is a hard one, duh!
I will not write any snuff or necrophilia. I really don't like pedophelia, because it's just gross. I won't write gay or lesbian because it is just not me. Niether of course will I write beastility.

Other than that I'm fair game.

 

[Quint]

Non-English? That's just too kinky for me, man!

Surprisingly, considering I'm a bifem, I don't ever see me writing lesbian stories. I can and do flavor mine with the thought, but writing an erotic story based solely upon two women would be very difficult. I'll say now that it would have to be one of those time where the story uses me to write it. (Como ahora...)

It's interesting how openminded we are on everything except bestiality and pedophilia. The latter I understand, sympathize with, and support; it's illegal and forbidden on this site in any way, shape, or form. The strong negative reaction to writing bestiality gave me pause, especially because what I read wasn't "it's not my cup o tea," but "it's sick and wrong and disgusting." Interesting...

I'm in the process of reconsidering what I can and cannot write. I swore off incest without thinking, and now I'm writing something with undertones of an Electra Complex. I say I will not create anything of pure hatred and violence, because I have no interest in such things. I see life through optimistic eyes. However, this bloody story delights in forcing me out of myself and into the character. Who knows what will come out of my mind?

However, no part of my mind wants to write anything involving excrement or urine. And I'm not too thrilled by "gay" either. That's a TOTAL OOC for me, and I don't have enough r/t experience with it to write it well. (Of course, I have NO r/t experience with the 70s or being black either, yet here I am...)

 

[SlickTony]

(to Quint)

everything except bestiality and pedophilia


I have read the guidelines for submitting stories here, and at least officially, no story is to involve anybody under 18. While sex with actual children is to be avoided, I just dunno about the under-18 thing. I happen to be working on a novel which has, among other things, a relationship between a 17 YO girl and a much older man. When I was 17, there were definitely some older guys that I found attractive, and if I didn't feel equal to having sex with them, I didn't feel, at that time, equal to having sex with anyone else either. I'm sure there were, and are, lots of 17 YO girls who can handle it, or at least they think they can. Anyway, the idea that if your 18th birthday is April 15, you are a child on April 14 and become an adult at the tick of a clock, is a little bit ridiculous. In Elizabethan times, there were lots of 17 YO girls who at that age would have been married for at least a year, and (especially if the man were affluent) she might be managing a house with servants, maintaining the family's herb garden and brewing the family's beer supply for the year.

As for bestiality, while I've never had anything to do with it, I have met some dogs who would probably have given me wonderful head if I had given them the opportunity. In fact I'm convinced that most of 'em only need a little nudge to go in that direction.

 

[NCmVoyeur]

Discomfort

I am uncomfortable writing about midgets having sex with albino chickens

I sensed that. My sympathies.

For me, it's women who become flatulent when receiving oral sex. I'm very uncomfortable writing about that.

 

[NCmVoyeur]

Discomfort

I am uncomfortable writing about midgets having sex with albino chickens

I sensed that. My sympathies.

For me, it's women who become flatulent when receiving oral sex. I'm very uncomfortable writing about that.

 

[SlickTony]

it's women who become flatulent when receiving oral sex. I'm very uncomfortable writing about that.

Voyeur,

If you think it's uncomfortable writing about it, try being it. Do you have any idea how difficult it is to enjoy getting head when you're trying to hold back a methane emission?

 

[Star of Penumbra]

There are few things that I am uncomfortable writing about, but one of them is homosexuality.
Firstly because I'm straight, (which explains why I don't like writing about male homosexuality), and secondly because it doesn't do anything for me. I simply cannot comprehend why so many other men get turned on by watching two women together.
It's not like it works the other way around. I dare anyone to find a woman who will say "Oh yeah, it really turns me on to think of my boyfriend/husband in bed on all fours with a big hairy guy behind him." and MEAN it.

 

[the_bragis]

Ray,

I have to agree. I can't get turned on by necrophilia either. To quote you..EWWWWWWW!

I think necrophilia is a killer, i don't like anal sex either, it such a pain in the ass.....oh and golden showers kind of piss me off too.

Seriously though, I think I'm open to most things, but even Killer Muffin's piece, well written as it was, didn't excite me. I find it hard to understand how someone could write about something they weren't passionate about, but then perhaps that's what separates the really good writers from the rest.

Alex (f)

 

[SlickTony]

Another thing that's puzzled me--recently I've noticed a rash of incest stories in which fathers have impregnated their daughters on purpose. What's up with that, anyway?