True Stories

[Comshaw]

Please note I’m new to this and to literotica. So apologies if this has been discussed before. It appear lit has a policy regarding true stories. At second attempt I did manage to get it through after removing true from the description. My question is why is lit not keen on true stories? Mine is not my best piece of writing (I really am an amateur), but I really did feel I needed to tell my tale to set the scene for what I know is to come.

https://www.literotica.com/s/fifteen-minutes-4

What I don’t understand is that as names are changed and nobody is directly identifiable what is the concern. I’m probably missing something obvious.

Anyway I promise I will improve. I have plenty more to tell.

CurvyMrs x

Lots of good advice. I'll add my worth.

All you have to do is: DO NOT use real names. If the setting is easily identifiable to the casual observer, change it. Do not claim it as a true story.

All of the arguments of libel and other legal retribution aren't really relevant because it's a one-in-a-million chance anyone who would recognize the story is going to read it. AND if they did it wouldn't matter anyway because they have the burden of proof that it is about a situation or event they were part of and not a fictional story as claimed.

Many of my stories have elements that are true. I don't see it as a problem.

That said if you want to claim it as a true story there are other sites that allow that.

Whichever you do, good luck and keep tossing them tales out to the readers. I wouldn't mind being tossed some tail...


Comshaw

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'm forever writing stories with key scenes based on real people and real events, that then slide away into fiction and back again. I've also written totally fictional stories that some readers have thought were autobiographical - "Thank you both for sharing."

How would anyone know where the truth stops and the fiction begins? What does it matter? Write about something that really happened, and there'll be readers who say, "Nah, that's bullshit." Make stuff up, and people will think, "Yes, that could happen, but did it?"

Change names, make up street names, describe a real place but call it some-place else; problem solved. I can't believe how difficult people make this.

Generally speaking though, whenever I see a self-proclaimed "true" story, I think, "Gee, I wish you'd embroidered that a bit," because it might have happened, but that doesn't automatically make it good writing.

 

[RejectReality]

Even real stories are going to have elements of fiction to them. You're going to skip over or gloss over things. You're going to punch up things. It's still fiction no matter how closely based on real events it is. Converting it from a play-by-play into prose makes that inevitable.

Marking something as "true" can even be detrimental, because it causes a lot of people to immediately dismiss it as utter bullshit. On a site where identifying it as such in the title, description, or tags isn't allowed, there's little point in it.

Suppose it works if you present yourself as a promiscuous woman in the stories, because a man's monkey brain kicks in, and many will believe anything at that point because they want to.