Quote by silverseeker
Dear avgblkgirl,
If you are going to writers hell, I'm coming with you and so is everybody else apart from Toni. She is going to be very lonely. Although there is enough variety among human beings to make literally any behaviour possible, and therefore we can make things up to our heart's content and it's still authentic to someone, somewhere, what is wrong with recounting an actual experience that interested or excited us so much that it wants to be written about?
You don't name names, of course, and it's highly unlikely that the person you're writing about is going to read your story on here anyway, but even in the wider context, I don't see a moral problem with using characteristics, foibles or even details of sexual practices that are based on real people.
The person we reveal most of in our stories is ourselves. You don't have to get far into one of mine to see what turns me on the most, and some of my stories are almost completely factual, so the other person is there too, but only she would know it.
So you're not a succubus - and as delightful as that word is, it doesn't even describe what you're being accused of. I don't think there is a word that describes it. You're not even a betrayer of confidences if no one knows who you're talking about.
Feel free, write free, give readers pleasure, don't hurt anyone.
You're fine.
Vic
Oh you and I are going to have a good time. ? I agree with you whole heartedly. No one is more bare to the world than I am in my writing. All that I absorb flows into my writing. It changes and it shifts as it combines with how I see it and feel it--and convey it to the reader. That's where the creativity comes into play. I'm not trying to use anyone. I'm not trying to tell someone's story, I'm trying to tell a story. I'm definitely not trying to hurt anyone. I'm writing fiction as real as I possibly can and I'm drawing from everywhere.
Write free. I like that.
So Vic, you bringing wine? Will you be playing naked Twister?
), you were thinking more like Agostinho da Silva. He felt that nothing is completely new. He was not interested in what influenced his writing; he was interested in "being true" (writing the believable or the realistic).
