True Stories

[Katie_Mae]

None of my stories are true. But they all have true things in them.

And by "true things" I'm talking about how I see and experience the world and my own fantasies, my obversions, my thoughts etc

Example:
-Banning all porn won't result in a porn-free society.
-Banning all masturbation and restricting all sexual activity to procreation-reasons after marriage will likewise not necessarily have the intended result.
-Some fantasies are best kept as fantasies.
-Some toilets are really confusing to flush, and when they are it will be after you've just done a big #2 that you desperately want to flush away but can't work out how.

And by "true things" yes, I'm also talking about things which did happen to me, inspiration from world events, people, places, times etc.

Yes, the toilet incident happened to me and I wrote it into a story.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

Yes, the toilet incident happened to me and I wrote it into a story.

If I had a nickel for every erotica author who mentioned #2 toilet incidents in a story that has nothing to do with scat I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Tropic of Cancer has a scene where a man accidentally uses a bidet as a toilet for a big #2, to the horror of the entire brothel.

 

[old_prof]

I had a comment complaining about a non-erotic incident with college acceptances in my story The Important Days being unrealistic. That was absolutely based on a true incident. The whole scene is an amalgam of two real occurrences, one mine, one my wife’s

 

[FrancesScott]

None of my stories are autobiographical in the slightest. But of course real life experience informs what we all write. Our own feelings and our observations of others percolate into the text.

 

[Britva415]

you can write a "true" story as long as you don't claim it to be true in your text

You can say it in your text. You can't say it in title, tags or description.

Source

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I had a comment complaining about a non-erotic incident with college acceptances in my story The Important Days being unrealistic. That was absolutely based on a true incident. The whole scene is an amalgam of two real occurrences, one mine, one my wife’s

If it makes you feel better, someone on IMDB criticised the film Rampage (the 2009 made by Uwe Boll) as something that could never happen in real life. Then there was the Utøya summer camp massacre in Norway, which played almost step-by-step like the rampage on the film.

 

[EmilyMiller]

You can say it in your text. You can't say it in title, tags or description.

Source

From the beginning of Procreative Writing, which I wrote with @Djmac1031

This is a true story. The events depicted below happened in the Mid Atlantic in 2024. At the request of those involved, the names have been changed. Out of respect for our readers, the rest has been told exactly how it occurred.

 

[Voboy]

I've got VERY few directly autobiographical stories, or parts of stories, but several of the things I've put in my stories were loosely inspired by real stuff: usually, some sort of fleeting eye-contact thing, or a random stray thought about someone I've seen or spoken with. I'm not sure I'd say those read any more or less realistically than the purely fictional stuff; it would be hard for me to judge.

What I have noticed is that there's a definite tendency for readers to assume that stories (or parts of stories) are true, and they're often willing to reach out and ask about my proclivities based on what I have my characters doing or thinking. I usually find that interesting, even flattering, since I tell myself it means the story possessed a sense of verisimilitude.

 

[anthrodisiac]

I think real stories are fine, just make sure you change details. In particular, names, as has been mentioned, since I don't think most people would appreciate showing up in an erotic piece without their consent.

I definitely enjoy writing about people who aren't this close to me. Certainly, I put traits in my characters that belong to me, primarily because it's very hard to fully distance yourself and not have something slip in subconsciously. Hell, even the most alien creatures I've come up with, which were spacetime monsters, had a couple piece of me in them.

I just completed probably the most autobiographical thing I've ever done (except non-fiction writing about my experiences) for my Valentine's Day submission, and it felt weird, naked.

That said, it's not super autobiographical, and I am legally obligated to inform you that I am not a tamandua. Nor do I have a boyfriend.

 

[MaudeBlack]

What lovely and thoughtful - and thought provoking comments.
You guys are the best.

Xx

 

[jonnoback]

I always like it when the author says 'this is a true story' and then it's up to me to judge how truthful that statement is. Sometimes there's clearly far too much embellishment for it to be true and that's easily spotted but then I do wonder why bother to say it's true - maybe others don't notice? - but I have and I do think a little less of them though that doesn't necessarily stop me from reading more (that's more down to the quality of the writing and the subject matter).

But if I really think it's true then it makes the story so much hotter and I like the author a lot more as they've gone the extra mile and revealed a lot about themselves. And that speaks volumes about them.

 

[SimonDoom]

From the beginning of Procreative Writing, which I wrote with @Djmac1031

This is a true story. The events depicted below happened in the Mid Atlantic in 2024. At the request of those involved, the names have been changed. Out of respect for our readers, the rest has been told exactly how it occurred.

If I recall, this statement, or one almost identical to it, appears at the beginning of the movie Fargo, and of each episode of the spinoff series. It's obviously not true, but the writer apparently thought it would give the story extra interest to say this about it.

 

[Erozetta]

Much of what I write has kernels of truth in them. A person, an interaction, a relationship, a desire, an experience, just an element. Then I wrap and weave that into fiction.