Your Writing Reflects You? OR NOT?!

[Chicklet]

A lot of people are totally in to putting themselves in their stories, writing about real life experiences or writing about characters that are like themselves. Who among us writes completely different things? I want a description of what and why was totally different from who you are.

Here's mine:

Room Three-sixty-six. Written for a request from a gay male's point of view. The characters aren't anything like me or anyone I know, the situation is nothing that I'm familiar with or even aroused by. I didn't put any of myself into the story, not even the conversation which is where I usually come in. It was a lot of fun to do for that reason, but hard, too.

-Chicklet

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I think that the story of mine that is the furthest away from myself is "Laura Collins". It's so different from what I like to write. So void of affection or real lust, just powerplay, punishment, and raw fuck. It's my least favourite story, too.

 

[TheEarl]

Unfortunately all of my stories are a large serving of me. Seducing Dawn is the only thing that even remotely different and that's only because it's based on a television show. And even that's got little chunks of me floating in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The Earl

 

[Alex756]

I am completely 'guilty' I guess for lack of a better word of using alot of real life.

Some has alot less than others but at the very least, my locations tend to be real. The hotel in my horor story is the hotel I was in a few weeks back for training. That was nice since I wrote it there I could walk it out and make sure I was .. OK, admiting I measure distances to make sure dialog fits with distance covered is a bit neurotic. I do have a fear of if anyone thats read my stries here ever comes to my house them saying, Oh! I thought I recognized the setting,

The house in fall semester break is a house I used to rent in another state and the airport there is a small regional airport I've flown into multiple times, big stuffed grizzly bear included.

Even my star trek fan fic has a real barn I used to board at, a house an aunt owns, a cousin's pickup, shit, I don't weave I quilt

I've only writen one non ifction story though, everything else is just a piece meal construction and hopefully you dont' recognize the piece of your aunt Nora's dress when you get the whole quilt put together

And yes I put alot of me into the characters. Just weird little bits and pieces which might not even be parts of me still.

Hmm I almost like my quilt analogy

~alex756~
http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=177120

 

[Guest]

my language, my self

Chicklet, you demanding poster, you.

In response to this extract from a quote by Octavian on another thread:
"I had a strong affection for my female character and that probably came across in the story."

I repliled: "Yes! I forgot about that. I've had great affection for my characters, in stories and threads. Though all I've written on Lit. is fiction I do put aspects/desires/thinking of me in my creatures, both male and female, so a special passion does direct my narratives and I think it comes across to readers."

Sometimes it may take years before I can recognize how much of myself I put in a piece of writing (whether poetry, essay or fiction).

On an early SRP thread my partner pooped out and I was so distraught for my abandoned character. I plan to satisfy her in a story soon.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Hi Alex! Great to see you 'round here.

Not. I have one story where any of the characters is based on myself and it's not erotic. Well, someone who belongs in jail with his balls might find it erotic, but the rest of society does not.

There are facets of me in all of my characters (I don't think we can help that), but none of the situations, plots, or characters are based either on me or my fantasies. I wrote them because I thought they'd make good stories.

 

[jfinn]

Well, since I primarily write about gay males and I'm a straight woman I can't really claim a lot of myself in those stories. Then I have one where the female is a ghost-- nope not me again. Amy, in my straight series is about as far from me as you get, and the one where the woman is in love with a fireman, uh uh, never went there, though I do like to oogle from a distance.

My locations though are places I know, even when I don't use the right names. This isn't because I'm compelled to use them by my muse or anything; it's just that I'm so damn lazy about research and so this is so much easier.

The plots are pure imagination. I'd do it differently if I had anything remotely interesting to tell about my life but basically I'm as boring as dirt and if I tried to write something autobiographical my readers would be asleep by the third paragraph.

Jayne

 

[Chicklet]

Well, since I primarily write about gay males and I'm a straight woman I can't really claim a lot of myself in those stories.

Usually when I'm writing gay male I'm in my conversations - talk between characters is as if I were talking to someone. Usually I have one character thought up well enough to react to what I would have to say, but one character gets all my reactions, and the speech flows like my own.

 

[SexyChele]

I have a few stories in which nothing is like me - "Best Buddies" (Gay Male), "A Night Out With The Guys" (asked to write that for a reader), and "Careful What You Ask For" (total fantasy). Other than that, the rest of the stories all have characters that have some of the qualities I have, but are not totally "me". The toughest story I've ever written was "Best Buddies" - also my first story I received as much feedback as I did.

I find it almost impossible to not write "me" into the story. It's far more difficult to think of how some one else outside of my skin would react to certain events!

 

[Madame Manga]

No, I don't deliberately use characters based on myself. I may take some particular characteristic of mine and build on it, but I always consciously skew the person away from me so that I can see her/him as separate. I'm not objective about me. ;-) Non-objective authors can lose control of what they are doing, IMO. My goal is not to give myself the perfect fantasy life and inflict it on other people; it's to write a good story.

Probably I'm putting more of myself into my characters than I realize--that's almost impossible to see while you have your head immersed in writing.

MM

 

[Wicked-N-Erotic]

Most of my stories are from life experience, although, as I write it I add little extras to make it sexier. Some of the things my female characters do sexually and enjoy I don't in RL. My characters are an extension of me, doing things I wish I could or wish I would enjoy doing as much as they do.

Wicked

 

[sirhugs]

Stevie, the transexual hubby in Gender Blender is most unlike me. I was talked into that by someone on the Story Ideas board- Deliciously Naughty, I recall. Even then, I wove my own fantasies in.

The senior citizen in Getting Old Sucks is much older than me, and I have never dreamed of the experiences there ( I don't even have a daughter!). Once again, Chicklet and the fine folks at Story Ideas dared me....

Ted in my bondage story, and the outdoor sex story, lives where I never have, and has an inventive bio. His boldness is a depth of my character best left unexplored.

Ross the Boss had his genesis in a real fantasy, but his character development over 4 stories has moved his character away from resembling me. Really. Trust me.

Robbie in my Lust in the Loft Stories lives out outlandish versions of actual fantasies, so might be closer to me ( I'm much older now).

The virginal heroes of my library , train and supermarket stories are representations of the historical me.

The husband in the Donna stories is me. I only wish the stories were true.

 

[SlaveMasterUK]

I have not officially put 'myself' into a story since I was about 14, when I was writing stuff for school assignments. However look out for the SlaveMaster cameo in Rhiana - spot me if you can - I've only got a small part (no, that's not what I... aww, forget it)

I don't really think any of my characters are very much like me. At one part of Rhiana the main character is reminiscing about a missed opportunity with someone who she wanted very badly, and that was written from the heart (at least part of the reason for writing the story was to get over that rejection).

In response to the Perdita's comments about feeling for characters, my current story is told from 3rd person, but with perspective limited to the main character (I forget the technical term for that). The story charts her falling for another girl over a period of time; as she gradually falls in love the narrative describing the other girl changes from simple descriptive terms that the main character would use to describe her, to the romantic, almost poetic way she would describe her partner when she is totally head over heels for her. I think to do this it's necessary to have some kind of feeling for the characters involved, to understand what they really like about their partner and transpose it to narrative.

ax

 

[Guest]

for the virile voiced master

re. rated MOST VIRILE VOICE by Perdita

How sweet (if that's an OK expression to use for a Master).

Perdita

 

[Chicklet]

I have not officially put 'myself' into a story since I was about 14, when I was writing stuff for school assignments. However look out for the SlaveMaster cameo in Rhiana - spot me if you can - I've only got a small part (no, that's not what I... aww, forget it)

okay

where?

 

[karmadog]

Romeo is Shakespeare.

Juliet is Shakespeare.

Philip Marlowe is Raymond Chandler.

Vice versa is not true.

 

[MathGirl]

Philip Marlowe is Raymond Chandler.

Yes, but poor Lew Archer..........
MG

 

[karmadog]

I have a buzz from a lame chardonnay. Was it 'Lew' or 'Miles' Archer? If it wasn't 'Miles' where the hell did I get that? Is Phillip Marlowe even right?

I'm pretty sure that I got that Romeo and Juliet crap right but, MG, between you and me...

 

[destinie21]

re : are you in your stories

when I'm writing I do tend to put myself within the conversations of the characters. otherwise it's fantasy

 

[DVS]

I'm usually in there, to some degree. And probably more so than Hitchcock would be in his.

 

[MathGirl]

Was it 'Lew' or 'Miles' Archer?

Dear KD,
It was one of those Archer boys.
MG

 

[Sabledrake]

I never write about myself. Some of my characters do occasionally express views and beliefs that I personally hold (oddly, it's usually the scary ones like the mad scientist), and sometimes events are inspired by ones I've witnessed in real life, but that's about it.

Sabledrake

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Well, since I primarily write about gay males and I'm a straight woman I can't really claim a lot of myself in those stories.
Jayne

Actually, I think I have a lot in common with gay men. We all like dicks, balls, and tight men's butts.

 

[jfinn]

Actually, I think I have a lot in common with gay men. We all like dicks, balls, and tight men's butts.

Can't argue with that. In fact my standard answer when asked why I write so many gay stories is because the equipment it so interesting.

Jayne

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Also known as: "double the pleasure..."