I like writing true stories because I know them. But I'm currently working on two fiction stories that are challenging and fun...fuels the imagination. I like to read both but if a any story is dull and poorly written I'm gone before it really gets started.
IF there were two "perfect 10" stories presented to me, I would have to select the "true" over the "fiction". That's just my personal preference...no other rhyme nor reason.
I like both, if it is well written then who cares. I do hate however the subheading "This is a true story but I have changed the names."
I'm thinking "Why bother changing names when I don't even know you. I could even walk past you in a Mall and not know who you are. So why bother with the subheading."
"Sexual pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken."
Simone de Beauvoir
Personally I prefer the true stories
Either as long as it is honest with their sexuality and desires... if that makes sense?
Writing true stories are a lot easier, but retelling them deffo turns me on though.
Writing fiction is more challenging but rewarding as a writer
I'd agree with Danny. I've written 5 stories. 4 are true or at least inspired by things that have happened to me. They were way easier to write than the 1 non fiction one and much much more of a turn on to write xx
All of my stories come from my imagination. The characters, situations, everything is just whatever flows out onto paper. I've always had a very vivid imagination.
I learned from some storytellers, that it is the way you present the truth that makes the story compelling. I like true stories, but not an actual account of what happened minute by minute. So based on a true story is a good way to describe it.
I prefer fictionalized true events, if that makes sense. So I guess fiction is my preference, not blow-by-blow (no pun intended) descriptions of actual events.
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I deffinitely prefer true stories, I kind of wish there was a true category here.
I have taken real-life event and morphed them into a fictional tale. An example of this for me is my story How I Got My Job, where the character meets a man for an interview at what turns out to be a Starbucks kiosk in a grocery story. Now, I really had an interview at a Starbucks kiosk in a grocery store, but that's were the reality ends. What happens in the story (the lunch at Applebees and events that follow) were all fictional.
Real life can be a great launching point for fiction. I know someone once said to write what you know, but maybe what they meant was, use what you know and add to it with your vivid imagination. I do think all authors use elements of what they know, they embellish or enhance it to make the story better & more interesting.
I mean... I don't think Edgar Allan Poe ever murdered anyone (at least... I'd like to hope not.)
I prefer writing fiction but my readers seem to prefer reading about my real life. I think my fiction is better, but I'm apparently the only one who thinks so.
I have written a little of my own experiences but generally write fiction.
My own experiences certainly help with the fiction though.
For some weird reason I enjoy writing from the male perspective sometimes. I am fascinated with the way some of the guys in my life live, love and talk of their experiences and I find it fascinating listening to their experiences and comparing them with many of mine. I have used them to develop and edit some stories at times. Having FWB is a wonderful assett.
I don't really have a preference for fiction or true stories when it comes to erotica. I assume that it's all fiction and fantasy anyway, unless someone makes a note that it's something that really happened. I write only fiction. My fiction is based in reality because life effects art and there is no way to write a work of pure fiction that is free of life influences. I expect people to know that I'm writing fiction, but sometimes they seem to think that I am the person narrating the stories. It's not me, it's always a character I've created, or the all seeing, all knowing eye of god, another of my fictional personifications. All of those people can only see life through my eyes, though, so they are pretty much limited to my world view and experiences. I do not, for instance, enjoy anal sex, but if I am writing a first person account of anal sex, the character narrating the story might love it. More than likely, however, she will be tainted with my own less than enthusiastic appreciation of having a cock rammed up her ass and will make that known somewhere in the narrative.
Ideally, fiction should be a way of expressing truth. You don't have to tell true stories to do that.
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As a reader, I prefer true.
As a writer, there is some truth in every thing I write, no matter how fictious the story becomes. I read once where an actress said that in love scenes, there is always a moment where she reacts in a way she would in real life--and that it is the only embarressing part of doing love scenes.
I prefer stories that are fiction. I find that when people tell stories of actual events, the writing is rather robotic. First this happened, and then we did this, and he said this...it's choppy and usually doesn't flow as well as stories that are purely fiction. I've read a few well written personal experience stories, but they are few and far between.
(Kitty Girl stories)
. Not much to tell about in my life, really. Yes, there are some story elements that I pull from life but there's not a single story in my list that's "true".