This Is A True Story . . .

[knotty_dude]

Ok, one of my pet peeves now is author's who put at the beginning of the stories, "This is a true story, the names have been changed...blah, blah, blah". Ok, I can see how this might add realism to the story thereby making more of an exciting read, but I just think it's overdone. Actually when I do read that opening line, I just laugh to myself and say "Yeah right." Particularly those incest stories when these authors supposedly had sex with their moms. Anyway, just passing my thoughts along.

 

[Lili]

Hi Knotty Dude,

Well, the first story I posted

Going Home:

http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=23082

does have a lot of true events in it, but I did not feel the need to put that in the story. I like to think it can stand on it's own as fiction, even if the people reading it don't know me, or my ex-husband or my boyfriend.

I haven't read the incest stories here, but there is a chance that they are true. A lot of incest happens within families and is never talked about. Writing about it may be theraputic to the authors. Then again, maybe those authors you refer to are just trying to make the story more interesting to their readers.

Lili


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Always do what you are afraid to do.

 

[JRob]

Names Changed

Hey, know what you mean. It's like Dragnet, the names are changed to protect the innocent.

Having said that, I know I write from experience, but generally not the whole story...just the gem of idea. For instance in "The Outfit", the concept and much of the story was true, but the immagination took over in parts to (hopefully) make it a better story than it would have been.

Still, I don't know that one has to preface things with "this is a real deal" or anything.

JR

 

[Whispersecret]

Knotty, I'm with ya. I always go into those stories doubtful. Usually you can tell by the events in the story whether they really happened or not. The fake ones usually deteriorate into implausible situations with people acting in ways that are just too over the top to be believed. I blame it on the Penthouse Forum. Aren't all those letters supposed to be "real" too?

 

[Natalie Nessus]

 

[knotty_dude]

Lili,
I know that incest is something that really happens out there but read some of the stories here and you'll find the ones I'm talking about. Sure, they can be really entertaining but do you think any of it REALLY happened?
Just read your story, and I can find yours plausible, very well written too! I can some of these other stories should be put under the humor category, cause I always get a good laugh!

 

[knotty_dude]

Whispersecret,
Yeah, let's have a show of hands of who has read Penthouse letters. Gosh, I'm really worried about those people that all those are actually true !

 

[KillerMuffin]

I know one author here put something to the effect that "this is all true and I'm trying to repent" or something at the beginning of her stories. But I believe the intent was to make it a part of the stories.

 

[Whispersecret]

Someone please explain how writing about a sexual experience in story form could qualify as repentance.

 

[KillerMuffin]

I'm not sure. I never bothered to ask the Deborator.

 

[Whispersecret]

The Deborator wrote that? *bursts out laughing* Then it can't possibly be real life repentance. Deb repents nothing. LOL Is she still around?

 

[KillerMuffin]

I haven't seen her in ages. Here's the excerpt from her first story.

"The Rookie" is Part One of the sexual story of my life. I am purging my soul. Telling of my past "sins" is part of my repentance."

I suppose that's how repentance works in porn... *grins*

 

[Laurel]

Deborah's stories should be required Lit reading. She's so damn funny. Her "life story" series is absolutely to this day one of my favorite series on the site. Go, people, read her stuff now! You'll be glad you did, really.

 

[Nudemodel]

Well, what is a true story? A news story gives the facts but not much of the feeling. A fictional novel allows feeling, emotion, sensitivity but draws on the author's true experiences and weaves imagined plausibility of inventions growing out of them.

Autobiography, at its best, is still a lie, fiction. It focuses on this or that and always ignores other things, partly because everything cannot be known let alone told, partly because the author cannot help choosing to distort his or her life, both to himself or herself and to the reader. So there is no "true story" in the sense of being a total and accurate account of everything that occurred and was felt.

To communicate a true event in story fashion after even a small amount of time has gone by and memory has lost some of it, details and dialogue have to be invented. To make that same story interesting enough for someone to want to read, the poorly remembered facts and the invented details and dialogue might have to be slightly rewoven.

So that's what I did in my stories, "Bar 69: True Story"
http:// www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=20661 and "After Bar 69: True Story" -- http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=20662

They weren't written "to repent." I enjoyed the experiences and wanted to share them. To keep them from becoming dry, boring news stories, I embellished and filled in lost memory with invented details and dialogue and then had to shuffle these somewhat to keep the story interesting and consistent.

There was a small debate going on at Literotica whether there should be a True Story category. And I offered these two stories in this way to show that it might not be necessary. One merely need append "true story" to a true story (however true it may or may not actually be). Nudemodel