Which of your stories do you think has most of you in it?

[EmilyMiller]

An odd question for me to ask maybe, given I’m the FMC in so many of my works.

I don’t mean you as an explicit character so much, but which of your stories reflects you as a person (either in general, or at a point in time)? Which covers things that are important to you, or on your mind? Which exhibits your personality traits, even if via others?

For me, this is easy. Determination has lots and lots of me and my recent preoccupations and emotions poured into it from a large pail.

How about you?

Em

 

[EmilyMiller]

Just starting a story with me as the central character. I usually write other characters. Will be interesting.

I’ve found it odd recently writing entirely invented works in which I still feature. I guess I got into the habit with my quasi-autobiographical stuff. I’ve only written one work in which I don’t appear at all. It’s maybe a crutch of sorts. Perhaps I don’t feel confident writing other characters.

Em

 

[Djmac1031]

Most of my male characters have something of me in them somewhere.

But probably "Tom" in my Jenna series; especially early on, he was / is, essentially, ME. Okay maybe a better looking version of me lol.

I often wonder how interesting it would be to challenge someone to read all my stories and pick out the stuff that's absolutely true about me from all the fantasy / made up stuff.

Although I'll give you all a major hint: very, VERY little of the sex stuff is true lol.

 

[EmilyMiller]

But probably "Tom" in my Jenna series; especially early on, he was / is, essentially, ME. Okay maybe a better looking version of me lol.

Tom is very sweet.

Em

 

[Lifestyle66]

My stories (almost always) include my MC in a first-person POV, who describes himself (and my writing style) in "Lifestyle Ch. 01: A Geek Beginning".
*****
Preface
I am a geek, not a nerd!

Such descriptions were insults hurled by the high school jocks or the A-lister girls.

A nerd is "a foolish, boring, studious person who lacks social skills." A geek is "a peculiar, overly intellectual, boring, socially awkward person."

I may be peculiar. But I don't think I'm foolish. So, I accept the description of geek as accurate.

Since those early socially awkward years, I've made a very good career with my geekiness ... and a lot of money. I'm getting ever closer to a very comfortable retirement. This is who I am!

As a geek, I have trouble writing about feelings. I never read or learned how to "appreciate the symmetry of those RJ-45 colored wires, all installed identically", or "embrace the simplicity of the IP address as binary numbers."

I can describe my feelings about a situation with somewhat austere language. My mind works on the premise: "Feelings? It is what it is." Asking me to describe my feelings is like asking me "How do you feel about the Moon?" My answer is "It's there! What else is there about it?"
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And as I've said in many of my other posts, my wife is my muse, and she provides me with much of my best dialog for the MFC.

MC (Ted): "Bitch!"
MFC (Jan) lovingly replies: "But I'm YOUR bitch."

Or:

Jan asked "Do you want a SciFi night downstairs? I feel like a chick flick in front of the fire tonight," and she retrieved the TV remote.

"Okay," and I leaned over to quickly kiss my gorgeous wife, then walked toward the basement stairs.

"And don't go there to watch porn," Jan scolded. "I'm done for the night."

*****


My real life sometimes writes my stories (with embellishment).

 

[EmilyMiller]

A nerd is "a foolish, boring, studious person who lacks social skills." A geek is "a peculiar, overly intellectual, boring, socially awkward person."

Hiyah,

Thanks for replying. Self-described nerdy girl here. Then I guess I self-describe as a lot of things.

Em

 

[SimonDoom]

Definitely "Exposing Lisa," which is a story told in the first person POV by a projection of my "Simon" alter ego regarding an encounter with a woman with whom I had had contact online.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Definitely "Exposing Lisa," which is a story told in the first person POV by a projection of my "Simon" alter ego regarding an encounter with a woman with whom I had had contact online.

Will have to add it to my list .

Em

 

[gunhilltrain]

Unless it is in Reviews and Essays, I'm not going to admit that about any of my stories.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Unless it is in Reviews and Essays, I'm not going to admit that about any of my stories.

I don’t necessarily mean sexual preferences. Could be anything.

Em

 

[BelleCanzuto]

For me, it's a toss up between Catharsis and Doctor's Orders.
"Catharsis" is a little more of a fantasy me, "Doctor's Orders" is more real life, except for the entire plot.

But, like a lot of people, most of my stories have elements of myself in them.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I don’t necessarily mean sexual preferences. Could be anything.

Em

I sort of got that. Not to be a pain about it, but I still want to retain some mystery. (God, that is a such a pompous way of putting it!)

 

[EmilyMiller]

I sort of got that. Not to be a pain about it, but I still want to retain some mystery. (God, that is a such a pompous way of putting it.)

gunhilltrain - international man of mystery!

 

[NoTalentHack]

Damn, that's kind of a hard one. There's little bits of me in a lot of characters; there's a reason most of them are in technology, that a lot of them are former goths, and that most of them are tall, broad-shouldered, and muscular. Not that I'm fit like that anymore (god, I wish), but when I was in my 20s and 30s I was.

Tim from At the End of the Tour/Funeral Dirge for a Fairytale is probably the closest to me when I was that age, with a lot of his background matching with mine. And a number of the things in Cultural Exchanges that happened to Jay also happened to me; sadly not meeting a hot British Jamaican girl that fell instantly in love with me. Ah, well.

But the faceoff with the skinhead in the tube did actually happen to me, and I also did do the two gun thing (complete with the quip) in a London arcade playing House of the Dead, which was my go-to light gun game back in college. And the "whale fifhery" thing was also something that happened, but it was a friend/ex-girlfriend from long before that I was visiting that I shared it with. So Jay's a pretty close match, too.

 

[ElectricBlue]

My "Alex" stories are loosely based around "me" in my youth, places I lived, women I knew, women I imagined being with. My "Adam" stories are more the current aged "me", with a lot of artistic licence and fantasy bolted on. Every cafe scene in any story has a real cafe girl in it, and many of those scenes are, in microcosm, verbatim counter conversations.

If I'm not in a story in one way or another, what's the point?

 

[Zenith77]

Most of my MMCs reflect something of me. You write what you know, right?

One of my earlier pieces was based on a 'true story' too. So I guess, if I had to pick, would need to be that one.

 

[SimonDoom]

Will have to add it to my list .

Em

To be clear, the encounter is completely imaginary, although the POV character has a lot of me in him and the female character is based on someone I really did interact with online who gave me permission to write the story based on her. It involves extreme exhibitionism.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Cathy and Karate - The Beginning and Cathy and Karate - Championship Fuck

Although I think all my stories reflect my personality to a degree, Tom in these two are probably the closet to me IRL.

I also want his car...

 

[gunhilltrain]

gunhilltrain - international man of mystery!

Hah! Thank you. I have said that most of the story plots are fictional (unless they are specifically labeled as essays). The settings, however, are mostly ones I've been in. City College as it was in the 1970's is used in great detail. Any offices I worked in later are more fictionalized, composites of places although their general locations are often described. The bus ride in "Leave the Driving to Us" and the train ride in"TurboTrain" are based on trips I actually took.

 

[Paligirl]

i wrote a personal account of my sensual massage...it was me totally
https://literotica.com/s/sensual-massage-13

 

[gordo12]

The beginning of Transplant was about a major tragedy in my life, except the person died. Different disease, but dead is dead.

In Wheelchair Girl I set myself up as the taxi driver using my user name here. It was a hoot writing myself into the story although some Nancy gave me shit for doing it. Couldn't read any further after she saw it. Somebody else asked if I WAS a taxi driver.

Also at the beginning of Wheelchair Girl there is author's notes that explain something my wife experienced. She always had the feeling there was someone out there. Somebody that should be part of her life. You can read the brief notes about what happened.

I think every story has a little bit of me in there somewhere.

 

[Duleigh]

I put a lot of what I know, of where I've been, and what I like in my stories, but I do everything I can to keep me out of them. I suppose Sea Cat and the Dragon Lady, it's kind of biographical

 

[Seadog777]

An odd question for me to ask maybe, given I’m the FMC in so many of my works.

I don’t mean you as an explicit character so much, but which of your stories reflects you as a person (either in general, or at a point in time)? Which covers things that are important to you, or on your mind? Which exhibits your personality traits, even if via others?

For me, this is easy. Determination has lots and lots of me and my recent preoccupations and emotions poured into it from a large pail.

How about you?

Em

Well that would take away the fun of having you readers guess.

Every one of my Male Main Characters does have a trait of mine.
I think all writers do that.

 

[ronde]

I have to say that all my male characters reflect me on one way or another because I work hard at identifying with them and then asking myself the question, "What would I do in the same situation?" It's in their actions and dialogue that I show at least a small part of myself. I don't think one story shows how I am more than others. There just different times and different situations.

 

[gunhilltrain]

The beginning of Transplant was about a major tragedy in my life, except the person died. Different disease, but dead is dead.

In Wheelchair Girl I set myself up as the taxi driver using my user name here. It was a hoot writing myself into the story although some Nancy gave me shit for doing it. Couldn't read any further after she saw it. Somebody else asked if I WAS a taxi driver.

Also at the beginning of Wheelchair Girl there is author's notes that explain something my wife experienced. She always had the feeling there was someone out there. Somebody that should be part of her life. You can read the brief notes about what happened.

I think every story has a little bit of me in there somewhere.

Kind of ironic that I really was a taxi driver once (not one of best decisions) - 1978-79. I've used that in non-fiction (the "New York Taxi Driving Tales" series) and fiction ("Minerva's Strange Taxi Ride"). The latter is completely fictional, although the details of the job and locations are accurate. I was actually married during that period. But the story is unrealistic, I suppose, because taxi drivers have what is now called "Low Sexual Marketplace Value" (a more recent bit of red-pill/manosphere lingo). In other words,* they don't have the money or status to, let's face it, attract women unless they pay for it. The few female drivers (say in Uber now) do get hit on a lot from what I've heard.

Anyway, Emily, thank you for giving us another chance for self-promotion, as if we don't already do enough of that here.

* The Travis Bickle / Betsy thing in the movie is totally unrealistic.