"true confessions" idea

[steppenwolf1963]

Hi, I've been toying with the idea of lightly fictionalising some actual incidents from my past - I'm not sure what lit policy would be on that as, strictly speaking, they would not be fantasies. What do people think?

 

[wildp]

example?

 

[Hypoxia]

The question arises every now and then. The usual answer is: we're here to tell stories, not write reports. Include as much of your past as you wish but make it entertaining. Don't stick to truth. Embellish, make stuff up, provoke reader reactions, get'em hot.

You'll probably want to anonymize your characters and locales so you're not TOO obvious if any of your players' models happen to read your stuff. But much I write is based on real people and places. I crumple that reality, extrapolate, fantasize, play what-if, combine or dissect characters, etc. The reality helps my visualizations.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I've received a couple of PMs telling me true-life incestuous stories about themselves. They always changed the names & locations to protect their privacy but they were pretty detailed (which is a plus) in their accounts of the events.

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

Honestly, think about it How many stories you have read that have read that began. "This is a true story that happened to me or that I did or something else that is purporting to be true, yet the they are posted along with the truly fictional postings.

Laurel does not gibe a big rats ass what you post as long as it does not violate the sites rules.

You on the other hand could possibly be considered guilty of libel or slander if you are not careful.

 

[Hypoxia]

You'll probably want to anonymize your characters and locales so you're not TOO obvious if any of your players' models happen to read your stuff.

You on the other hand could possibly be considered guilty of libel or slander if you are not careful.

Which is why I insert disclaimers and change names. I admit to being a bit sloppy sometimes, using middle names or slight variants -- mostly so I remember who's who. But the incidents I invent don't defame the folks because I don't pretend to be truthful or serious, even if portions of a tale are straight reporting.

On Wikipedia, libel and slander redirect to defamation:

Defamation — also calumny, vilification, and traducement — is the communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of an individual person, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation.

Under common law, to constitute defamation, a claim must generally be false and must have been made to someone other than the person defamed. Some common law jurisdictions also distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel.

I hear public and private figures regularly vilify actual persons, businesses, products, groups, governments, religions, and nations by name, without being held to account. Indeed, they may be rewarded; c.f. the vile PEOTUS. I don't fret much about being charged with libel for my LIT writings.

 

[sirhugs]

Defamation lawsuits aside, anonymizing is the minimum in polite behaviour when we mine our reality for stories, IMHO.

Though as someone already pointed out, reality generally is recalled with a pre-inserted element of fantasy. I would guess the plots about 25% of my stories incorporate greater or lesser aspects of my direct experiences, but none are "true".ALl incorporate some inner truth...

 

[steppenwolf1963]

Thanks all. I think the particular incident I have in mind would work well as a story although it's probably not as simple and conclusive as most here. It could be interesting for others to read however.

 

[Lascivity]

I can see no issue, so long as you anonymise the people involved. I'm currently publishing a series of true life accounts on my site, but in each case I've changed not only the names, but a lot of the key details so that nobody could ever possibly recognise the people involved. It wasn't that hard to do, and the stories still read with a ring of truth.

 

[TxRad]

Always change the names to protect the guilty.

I have a series of stories called "Memories of". All are true or based on the truth, or may or may not have happened as they are written. As you get older, your memory can play tricks on you. So far none have featured the line, "Hold my beer and watch this."

 

[Haulover]

Working with my wife, we're (slowly) building a "Neil And Debbie" series which is strongly based on personal experiences. I'm hiding many personal details so we can retain our anonymity.

My disclaimer reads something like:
Deb and I write our stories together. Her memory is better than mine, and I put the words ‘on paper’. This narrative has elements of our real life experiences, liberally spiced with fantasy. You might be able to guess which is which.

Story 3 is being posted this week. Story 4 will be a Valentine's Day submission.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Story 3 is being posted this week. Story 4 will be a Valentine's Day submission.

Only if it's submitted to the Competition as a stand alone story, not as part of a multi-part yarn.

 

[barefootgirl69]

I wouldn't worry about anything unless you think that one day they might read it and recognize themselves. That being said, aren't all the stories written true? Have I missed something?

 

[NotWise]

That being said, aren't all the stories written true? Have I missed something?

Golly, mine are! Especially the ones with the house repairing itself and the apple orchard blooming and bearing in an afternoon. That SO happened to me once.

 

[SusanJillParker]

Hi, I've been toying with the idea of lightly fictionalising some actual incidents from my past - I'm not sure what lit policy would be on that as, strictly speaking, they would not be fantasies. What do people think?

I had a course in Creative Autobiographical Fiction. I thought the course was nonsense until I took it and then I realized that all autobiographies are creative fiction.

I wrote a series of stories for a woman from Beaverton, Oregon. She was a swinger turned porn star and moved to Amsterdam to make 14 porn movies. The series is called, Confessions of a Porn Star.

She gave me the information, all 55 pages of narrative and I turned it into a story.

I've also written true essays about my life, my family, my mother, and brothers.

The only policy that Literotica has is no characters under 18-years-old and no bestiality.

Go for it but don't forget to be...creative.

 

[barefootgirl69]

Golly, mine are! Especially the ones with the house repairing itself and the apple orchard blooming and bearing in an afternoon. That SO happened to me once.

Really??? That's fascinating!
Curious as to what kind of erotica those stories are....

 

[NotWise]

Really??? That's fascinating!
Curious as to what kind of erotica those stories are....

The surprisingly under-read kind.

 

[Hypoxia]

Golly, mine are! Especially the ones with the house repairing itself and the apple orchard blooming and bearing in an afternoon. That SO happened to me once.

I've experienced stuff like that too, and with hot group sex! I forget which meds I was on at the time. Strong meds, for sure.

ObTopic: I recall a long-ago pulp mag called TRUE CONFESSIONS. It was all total bullshit, of course. That's the best kind. Confess to what you *wish* you had done, not the tedious, smelly reality.

 

[CyranoJ]

Hi, I've been toying with the idea of lightly fictionalising some actual incidents from my past - I'm not sure what lit policy would be on that as, strictly speaking, they would not be fantasies. What do people think?

I draw heavily on my own experience in my stories, no matter how fantastical they get. It's hard to avoid if you want to write erotic stories with real impact.

That said, I personally try not to actually recount my personal stories, with names changed or otherwise. I follow Dom Cobb's rule from Inception: "Never recreate from your memory. Always imagine new places." I just draw on them as material for the fiction, on account of I'm not super-keen to put my actual sex life on display at Lit. YMMV.

 

[barefootgirl69]

I've experienced stuff like that too, and with hot group sex! I forget which meds I was on at the time. Strong meds, for sure.

ObTopic: I recall a long-ago pulp mag called TRUE CONFESSIONS. It was all total bullshit, of course. That's the best kind. Confess to what you *wish* you had done, not the tedious, smelly reality.

Is that like the GB thread Lithouse Forum?

 

[Hypoxia]

Is that like the GB thread Lithouse Forum?

Looks like. Remember, authors and posters are liars with keyboards. BTW you posted a bad link -- I fixed it here.

 

[Dam_Fool]

I've thought of doing this before. I think it would fit right into the whole cuckold fetish thing. But IDK...