When life imitates a fucked-up part of your story

[Bramblethorn]

A few years back I wrote a story about an office "team-building" retreat gone horribly wrong. As part of that, the facilitator holds a session where she goads everybody into tearing down one of their managers. I think I might have based that in part on things I'd heard about cults, but I'd never heard of it happening in a workplace.

And then...

https://www.askamanager.org/2023/06...a-grievance-circle-targeting-our-manager.html

So: what's the most messed-up thing that you invented for a story that somebody later did in real life?

 

[nice90sguy]

That was a great story idea. Is your story available to read?

 

[Omenainen]

That was a great story idea. Is your story available to read?

https://www.literotica.com/s/the-floggings-will-continue

Absolutely recommend that one, especially for anyone who’s ever had to participate in different team building exercises (and if anyone hasn’t, let me know what you do for a living, because I want in).

 

[Smuttyandfun]

I'm not going to get too far into the details, but I wrote a story, "Woman Designed for Sex." It was based in the future in a world where women are just pawns that have no say over what happens to them or their bodies. I wrote it a few years ago, and it's kind of eerie with what's going on out there now, since I almost predicted some of what's happening.

 

[RetroFan]

In my story 'Sister In Law Surveillance' the cheating wife in the story before she married and had kids was on an Australian reality show where singles meet other singles on a cruise ship, similar to other reality dating shows. I made up the premise of this reality show for the story, so was somewhat surprised about 18 months later to see an Australian TV network advertising its latest reality show - singles meeting other singles on a cruise ship.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Nothing fucked up comes to mind, but somewhat related- while I was writing Wild Birds of Maine, a romance in which a woman who is an expert birder becomes involved with a man who suspects he has a bird that is thought to be extinct frequenting his feeder, researchers in New Guinea discovered a species of pheasant that had been listed as extinct since 1882.

There was no mention in the news as to whether or not the researchers eventually fucked.

 

[DeLaFaye]

Nothing fucked up comes to mind, but somewhat related- while I was writing Wild Birds of Maine, a romance in which a woman who is an expert birder becomes involved with a man who suspects he has a bird that is thought to be extinct frequenting his feeder, researchers in New Guinea discovered a species of pheasant that had been listed as extinct since 1882.

There was no mention in the news as to whether or not the researchers eventually fucked.

They're ornithologists. It's to be assumed. Birds of a feather and all that...

 

[MelissaBaby]

They're ornithologists. It's to be assumed. Birds of a feather and all that...

Hornitologists

 

[yowser]

Pornithologists.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Twitchers.

 

[Duleigh]

what's the most messed-up thing that you invented for a story that somebody later did in real life?

I do it the other way around, I take the most messed up things that happen to me and put them in a story.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I do it the other way around, I take the most messed up things that happen to me and put them in a story.

I'd be open to doing that, but most of mine wouldn't make for a good story. Stories need to make sense in a way that real life doesn't...

 

[Altissimus]

It hasn't happened with my tentacle sex story yet... but every day is a new day.