Writing Comes To Life

[GlennJenko]

First off, thanks to this post for giving me a kernel of an idea.

I'm a big fan of the game Alan Wake and its sequel. The basic premise of the game is that a writer creates a story that comes true. I realised there are some erotic possibilities from this idea.

A writer who's been single for a while for whatever reason needs to buy a new writing device. He's a little old-fashioned despite being young (at most 30-35) and prefers writing on a typewriter to a computer. Obviously in the modern day it can be a little difficult to procure a typewriter, so he does some searching and finds one in a thrift store. It's perfect and he begins writing on it. Somewhere we're introduced to a woman he's interested in, who works for the writer's editor. He tries flirting but it doesn't go anywhere. One night, he's horny and writes the start of what will be a personal, erotic tale. The woman he models the female character on is a spitting image of the woman he's working with, but he dresses her more sexily, wishing the woman was more confident about herself. A few days later, the writer sees the woman dressed exactly how he imagined her in the tale, even reciting a line he wrote in his erotic piece. He's a bit taken aback, but brushes it off as a coincidence.

That's really as far as I got, as magic realism isn't something I usually write. I'm stuck on how the writer completely figures out it is his writing that's making the changes to this woman and possibly others. I also want there to be a few rules so the writing isn't overpowered. E.g I know that I want the writing to be true to someone's personality to come true, and that it can only be used for erotic purposes. Any help on further ideas is much appreciated, as well as how far the writer pushes the scenario before telling the woman what he's done, if he ever does.

 

[AlinaX]

There's a tonne of Mind Control stories based around this premise, but if it's chaos you want, try The World Rewritten...

 

[Rob_Royale]

@Djmac1031 did something similar where an erotica writer's stories come to life. It's pretty good too.
https://www.literotica.com/s/pornville

 

[Djmac1031]

@Djmac1031 did something similar where an erotica writer's stories come to life. It's pretty good too.
https://www.literotica.com/s/pornville

My story is different in that the events aren't set in the Real World, although they do affect two real people; the author and his wife.

I'm not a huge fan of non con, but I do have a scene where the wife reluctantly participates because acting out the story her husband wrote is the only way for them to return to the Real World.

I didn't bother explaining the magic behind it, the story was more about the differences between writing sexual fantasies and having to live them.

I suppose the line the OP will have to draw is whether this woman being affected by the writers stories is a willing participant or not and just how willing.

 

[GlennJenko]

My story is different in that the events aren't set in the Real World, although they do affect two real people; the author and his wife.

I'm not a huge fan of non con, but I do have a scene where the wife reluctantly participates because acting out the story her husband wrote is the only way for them to return to the Real World.

I didn't bother explaining the magic behind it, the story was more about the differences between writing sexual fantasies and having to live them.

I suppose the line the OP will have to draw is whether this woman being affected by the writers stories is a willing participant or not and just how willing.

I must admit, though I agree they are different I did thoroughly enjoy your story and it was part of what got the gears turning in my head about what it'd be like for somebody in a story to be a part of the story.

But yeah, how willing she is in it is something I've been thinking about. I know I don't want outright non-con because it is not at all my thing (and is not allowed on Lit depending on how far you take it), which is why I wanted one of the stipulations of the reality rewrites to be that you cannot make someone do something they absolutely would not do.

 

[LupusDei]

But yeah, how willing she is in it is something I've been thinking about. I know I don't want outright non-con because it is not at all my thing (and is not allowed on Lit depending on how far you take it), which is why I wanted one of the stipulations of the reality rewrites to be that you cannot make someone do something they absolutely would not do.

As soon any magic is involved any concept of affirmative consent goes out of the window. It becomes circular reasoning to soothe the sorcerer's conscience. He says her to do something and like it, and she does it cheerfully and he assume it proves she wanted to do it. Nope. She did exactly what he said her to do, and there is absolutely no way to determine how willing she would have been to do anything anywhere alike wasn't she commanded to. That information exists only on a parallel world branch that wasn't chosen, and thus is inaccessible.

Sure, she can't do what's impossible to do. If he says she should, say, wear skin tight jeans (just a silly example, could be substituted with whatever act of depravity), and she wears blue pencil skirt instead, we may assume it was impossible for her to wear skin tight jeans.

But we don't know why. She may not own any, and wasn't motivated enough to buy on a whim, or simply didn't have time for that, yet. She may have interpreted some dress code requirements that apply to her somewhere (not necessarily where we encounter her) in a way that strongly prohibits her from wearing skin tight jeans. Or she may be personally, deeply opposed (on some more or less irrational grounds likely) to wearing skin tight jeans.

Any of those can be overpowered by more specific or reinforced commands. Humans are amazing in finding ways to do what they want to do. And a magical command by definition make them want to do that. And when she finally is wearing skin tight jeans, and you would question her why, she will have totally logical -- to her -- explanation why she is doing it. According to her it was fully her own decision.

That explanation may be totally crazy to outside observers however. She may say God told her to do it. You may grab it and say, aha, it proves that the magic worked. Nope. She may as well say she did it to save the planet and provide (more or less ridiculously flawed) chain of quasi-logical reasoning. Most likely both are random rationalizations anyway. But did she it because of the magic or would have done just that anyway? We will never know, neither do she.

Magic of this type work on people in the motivation level, and thus is unprovable. Any specific enough command to definitely prove it works should fail to work, at least fail to work with required specificity to be considered a definitive proof.

That the magic works is assumed not in specifics, but from bulk effects. Events perceived by the sorcerer as improbable happen with too high frequency to be ignored as coincidences. If we imagine people's decisions as coin flips, the sorcerer may conclude 80+ out of 100 land in his favor. Not necessarily in a row. Some are insanely vague, little nudges. And he may be totally wrong anyway. He may be a victim of confirmation bias, disregarding data contracting his theory that the magic works.

We see their world through a person who comes to this possibly false conclusion that the magic work, and thus receive few if any of the contradicting facts, and are compelled to think it work. However, even to the extent that the magic appears to be in effect, there should be equivalence between statements "whatever he writes comes to reality" and "he has developed prescience and describes future that would happen independently of his writing," with the caveat that the sorcerer does believe (and thus the reader is led to believe) that the future that come to pass is exceedingly improbable without intervention.

 

[AndersonsBiographer]

First off, thanks to this post for giving me a kernel of an idea.

I'm a big fan of the game Alan Wake and its sequel. The basic premise of the game is that a writer creates a story that comes true. I realised there are some erotic possibilities from this idea.

A writer who's been single for a while for whatever reason needs to buy a new writing device. He's a little old-fashioned despite being young (at most 30-35) and prefers writing on a typewriter to a computer. Obviously in the modern day it can be a little difficult to procure a typewriter, so he does some searching and finds one in a thrift store. It's perfect and he begins writing on it. Somewhere we're introduced to a woman he's interested in, who works for the writer's editor. He tries flirting but it doesn't go anywhere. One night, he's horny and writes the start of what will be a personal, erotic tale. The woman he models the female character on is a spitting image of the woman he's working with, but he dresses her more sexily, wishing the woman was more confident about herself. A few days later, the writer sees the woman dressed exactly how he imagined her in the tale, even reciting a line he wrote in his erotic piece. He's a bit taken aback, but brushes it off as a coincidence.

That's really as far as I got, as magic realism isn't something I usually write. I'm stuck on how the writer completely figures out it is his writing that's making the changes to this woman and possibly others. I also want there to be a few rules so the writing isn't overpowered. E.g I know that I want the writing to be true to someone's personality to come true, and that it can only be used for erotic purposes. Any help on further ideas is much appreciated, as well as how far the writer pushes the scenario before telling the woman what he's done, if he ever does.

Didn't the telepathic typewriter from Steven King's Tommyknockers have limited powers of altering reality?

I think there was an Adam Sandler movie with a similar premise. Might be worth a watch, if you can stand to watch an Adam Sandler movie.

 

[Djmac1031]

I must admit, though I agree they are different I did thoroughly enjoy your story and it was part of what got the gears turning in my head about what it'd be like for somebody in a story to be a part of the story.

But yeah, how willing she is in it is something I've been thinking about. I know I don't want outright non-con because it is not at all my thing (and is not allowed on Lit depending on how far you take it), which is why I wanted one of the stipulations of the reality rewrites to be that you cannot make someone do something they absolutely would not do.

I had the germ of an idea that I never finished about a gut who gained the ability to manipulate peoples emotions.

In a nutshell, he couldn’t control a person's mind, make them do something they were unwilling to do.

But, say, if he met a woman who was sexually interested in him, he could maneuver and dampen down the emotions like fear or guilt that might keep her from acting on her desires.

There's an angle you might be able to use.