Writing a “Stretch Assignment”

[UnfetteredMale]

As part of a personal “stretch assignment” I’ve challenged myself as an author to try to write about an erotic encounter that would be well outside of something I would personally be interested in. So I decided to try to write an incest story, dad/adult daughter…there are details in there..but the struggle I’m having is how to make that transition seem “semi-realistic” from the shock of the opportunity to moving forward. Anything I try to work with seems..well, trite.

Wondering how others have dealt with this type of “block” and I’m also wondering if maybe I need a female co-author to help it flow?

Thoughts?

 

[MillieDynamite]

Always write women with both emotion and logic and men lacking in both. Just kidding.

 

[KeithD]

Wondering how others have dealt with this type of “block” and I’m also wondering if maybe I need a female co-author to help it flow?

Thoughts?

Or you might pick another topic that you can handle by yourself, since it's your stretch assignment.

 

[MillieDynamite]

In all seriousness, I cannot understand happy incest. As I said before, my birth home had no love, and my adoptive home had no incest.

You have to explore your ideas on the subject. A co-writer doesn’t stretch you or your abilities. Women, in general, either give sex out of love or to get love, men on the other hand, promise love to get sex. Or so I have been told.

I have written a happy incest story. I really had to use my imagination to make it work. Since I wasn’t experienced in considering that both parties would be interested, it required a boatload of creativity.

 

[NotWise]

As part of a personal “stretch assignment” I’ve challenged myself as an author to try to write about an erotic encounter that would be well outside of something I would personally be interested in. So I decided to try to write an incest story, dad/adult daughter…there are details in there..but the struggle I’m having is how to make that transition seem “semi-realistic” from the shock of the opportunity to moving forward. Anything I try to work with seems..well, trite.

Wondering how others have dealt with this type of “block” and I’m also wondering if maybe I need a female co-author to help it flow?

Thoughts?

If you haven't, then you should probably read a few daddy/daughter stories. Pretty much every author deals with how the relationship develops, and a lot of the solutions are trite. You probably don't need to worry about being trite. "Trite" means the readers have seen it before and they don't have to think about it before getting on to the good stuff.

I haven't written daddy/daughter stories. I write mom/son stories, and one of my favorite ploys for getting around the problem is to have the relationship start sometime before the story. A Christmas Tart is a fairly short example. I won't link them, but "Working for Mom" uses a similar solution, and "My Sister's Wedding" is a brother/sister story that uses the same ploy.

Some readers seem to feel like the story is incomplete if they don't see the relationship develop. Others are fine with it.

 

[SamScribble]

As part of a personal “stretch assignment” I’ve challenged myself as an author to try to ...

Why do you chaps even contemplate such things? I eat my broccoli because I like it; not because it's a challenge. (Just saying.)

 

[8letters]

As part of a personal “stretch assignment” I’ve challenged myself as an author to try to write about an erotic encounter that would be well outside of something I would personally be interested in. So I decided to try to write an incest story, dad/adult daughter…there are details in there..but the struggle I’m having is how to make that transition seem “semi-realistic” from the shock of the opportunity to moving forward. Anything I try to work with seems..well, trite.

Step 1 - Bring the dad and daughter together into a situation that changes their roles and isolates them. For example, the mother's father dies and the dad inherits the family business, but he doesn't know much about the business so the daughter-with-an-MBA quits her job to help out. The dad and daughter then have to work long hours together to save the business.

Step 2 - Have a series of situations that slowly ratchet up the sexual tension between the father and daughter. The father realizes he's looking for a woman just like his daughter, and the daughter realizes that she's looking for a man just like her dad.

Step 3 - Have something happen that opens their eyes to their attraction to each other. For example, after they land a big deal that saves the family business, they get all dressed and go to a fancy restaurant to celebrate and wind up getting drunk together.

OR

The daughter walks in on the dad as he masturbates and says, "Oooh, Daddy, what a big cock you have! You have to fuck me with it."

Wondering how others have dealt with this type of “block” and I’m also wondering if maybe I need a female co-author to help it flow?

That sounds like a fishing expedition for hitting up a female LitE author.

 

[AlinaX]

I avoided incest for a long time before making it a stretch for myself. Not sure I could handle father-daughter, though. Unrelated, but my one real-life brush with incest was deeply uncomfortable for me. Story incest is always other-people-doing-it.

A non-con element is one common theme, whether blackmail, bribery, mind control or physical coercion, although I wouldn't like to see parents coercing children. Another common theme is accidental incest.

Which reminds me. I do have some father-daughter incest. A young woman, under a dinner table, unaware that one of the guests is her own father - who, likewise, is unaware that the woman beneath the table is his daughter...

 

[lovecraft68]

Personally I don't understand the concept of writing something you have no interest in for starters, then to try to keep pushing when it becomes obvious you don't understand the chosen genre or how to portray it.

Somethings can't be explained, you can pull it off or you can't, and there's no shame in the latter, but but its a headscratcher as to why you feel you need to.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Personally I don't understand the concept of writing something you have no interest in for starters, then to try to keep pushing when it becomes obvious you don't understand the chosen genre or how to portray it.

Somethings can't be explained, you can pull it off or you can't, and there's no shame in the latter, but but its a headscratcher as to why you feel you need to.

I have no interest in murder, but I have written about it. I have no interest in cuckold stories, but I have written them. Always by request. I write about a lot of things don't float my boat. If I wrote only about what I like in sex, it would all be lesbian or femdom stuff.

 

[lovecraft68]

I have no interest in murder, but I have written about it. I have no interest in cuckold stories, but I have written them. Always by request. I write about a lot of things don't float my boat. If I wrote only about what I like in sex, it would all be lesbian or femdom stuff.

When I say interest, I mean no interest in writing about it on your own, not the act itself. The OP is trying to write something he has no real interest in writing, to see if he can. There's a difference.

My writing would be limited to horror, taboo and femdom

which is why my best stories here are all....romances.

 

[PBAnnie]

My writing would be limited to horror, taboo and femdom

which is why my best stories here are all....romances.

There's nothing wrong with a death metal love song.

 

[NotWise]

When I say interest, I mean no interest in writing about it on your own, not the act itself. The OP is trying to write something he has no real interest in writing, to see if he can. There's a difference.

My writing would be limited to horror, taboo and femdom

which is why my best stories here are all....romances.

The readers seem to like sentiment (not to be confused with sediment). I think you could write a Romance in any category and be successful. Maybe not so much in LW, but success is relative.

Hm. Maybe that's a challenge that could get me to throw away a story in LW.

 

[LAHomedog]

A while back I decided to attempt the same I/T stretch based off of a lot of the posts on here from authors whose writing I admire.

I also had the same problems starting. So, I changed my approach. I wrote the story as two adults, polished it, and then went back and switched the characters into a brother and sister. Then polished it again. Now I know the characters and I have them as fully three-dimensional people in my mind's eye, and I can write further chapters the same way I write any other category.

Maybe that might work for you too.

 

[PBAnnie]

I wrote the story as two adults, polished it, and then went back and switched the characters into a brother and sister. Then polished it again. Now I know the characters and I have them as fully three-dimensional people in my mind's eye, and I can write further chapters the same way I write any other category.

In the end, I think that this is what appeals to so many people about fictional, erotic incest: You have two people who are already well known to each other and have a well established bond based on a mutual love and trust, then you add the unconditional sex to the relationship. The sex comes with no strings attached and it's assumed that once the affair is over that the familial relationship can continue with or without the sex.

 

[gordo12]

The readers seem to like sentiment (not to be confused with sediment). I think you could write a Romance in any category and be successful. Maybe not so much in LW, but success is relative.

Hm. Maybe that's a challenge that could get me to throw away a story in LW.

Romance goes over nicely in LW. It's one of the few things that will keep you from being roasted alive. Hell, you can even do no sex in it! The voting will come out about 25 points lower than Romance.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Romance goes over nicely in LW. It's one of the few things that will keep you from being roasted alive. Hell, you can even do no sex in it! The voting will come out about 25 points lower than Romance.

gordo, do you mean .25 lower?