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Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 10:09 pm
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Viridian wrote:I personally never understood the purpose behind story requests. I understand art requests - artists can use original or borrowed content to create new work in their style, appealing to individuals and their likes and fantasies. I find it hard to imagine why someone would request a written form of their fantasy when they can already fantasise about it. If someone requests a story about a blonde-haired policewoman wearing a form-hugging halter-neck dress, black heels struggling up to her ankles while playing the accordion, I'm going to present a story about a blonde-haired policewoman wearing a form-hugging halter-neck dress, black heels struggling up to her ankles while playing an accordion.
Speaking as one writer to another, taking story requests has been one of the worst things I've done for myself. Rather than ridding myself of the stress of creating original storylines, I'm pressured to fulfill someone else's exact fantasy. When it comes to adult/erotic-themed writing, especially in a very niche area like what we have here, requests are ridiculously specific, and some people get upset because you sank their character an inch too deep or you didn't spend enough time describing their chest waders, or the characters should've worn pantyhose or taken their top off or went under instead of escaping.
In my opinion, stories should be original creations or, at the very least, have enough to room to show some freedom in creativity. Stories aren't random pieces put together haphazardly. I struggle with this at times: at various moments I've had specific items that I wanted to include, such as a specific dress, or the main character wearing a hoodie with nothing underneath, being stuck in an elevator or having their car break down, being tied up and rescued by an undercover cop who has to handle her, and so on. If I can't make sense of my own random ideas, I wouldn't to screw around with someone else's.
Part of the reason why I began creating vignettes based around my "Quicky Sanders" character is to have a vent for short, random ideas that would not otherwise work.
Above all, I learned in my time as a writer is that you write for yourself and no one else. In any case, good luck with your writing.
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To actually respond to the intent of the topic, I offer the hypothetical scenario mentioned in my sticky topic: young female teacher supervising a school camp by the coast and being left behind as the tide cuts her off from the group.
Viridian wrote:If someone requests a story about a blonde-haired policewoman wearing a form-hugging halter-neck dress, black heels struggling up to her ankles while playing the accordion, I'm going to present a story about a blonde-haired policewoman wearing a form-hugging halter-neck dress, black heels struggling up to her ankles while playing an accordion.
tanya_wam wrote:Quite often submission calls are quite specific, and I don't see why a story can't be commissioned very specific tastes, in the same way art is. Both are creative, and usually to a brief or set of guidelines.
tanya_wam wrote:I know it's only an extreme example to prove a point but even stories have to follow some sort of logic, even within their own fantasy world, yes?
Viridian wrote:The "policewoman" refers to the common theme of figures of authority being placed in situations showing vulnerability, and is a popular in erotic writing (similarly: spies, FBI agents, detectives/sleuths). While uniforms are also a popular wishlist item in erotica, shifting the character out of their prescribed environment into something more comfortable ("the halter-neck dress") creates tension and conflict as the character has to balance the identity inherited from their position of authority and the situation they are in now (such as an after-hours dinner date). The "black heels" refers to the foot fetish / heel fetish that is also a popular sub-theme that drives some people crazy, and because of the nature of quicksand as being similar to the "stuck" fetish theme, this comes up (unusually) often.
"Ankle-deep" reflects the bizarrely specific "turn-on" points unique to quicksand fetishists. In previous surveys over the years, these points are ankle, knee, mid-thigh, upper-thigh, crotch, waist, just-below-breasts, nipple-deep, just-over-breasts/armpits, shoulders, neck, chin-tilted up, and submerged. Fetishists can be profiled based on which points are turn-ons. Foot fetishists peak immediately at ankles, and are indifferent to the rest. Melodrama fans hit the high at the thighs to chest, but are switched off by submergences. Grim ending fans find minimal enjoyment up until neck or chin-deep. What's surprising is that often a scene is "ruined" to certain profiles if it doesn't touch their specific turn-on point and they are very adamant about what should or shouldn't be in the scene. (Similarly: "What do you (or do not) like in quicksand vids?" viewtopic.php?f=10&t=13521).
The accordion is just my jab at how stupid these specific lists and requirements are.
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