Guidelines for a Celebrity Story

[SoCalAshley]

I am writing my first story in the Celebrity & Fan Fiction Category and was wondering if Lit has restrictions on how much I can make up using the real actors’ names. All the characters are over 18, so age is not a factor. The main character is a real actress, and my question has to do with a sexual situation between my character and another actor who is also real. Can I make up a sexual encounter between these two actors and use their real names? For that matter, are there any restrictions on what I can make up?

 

[ElectricBlue]

I am writing my first story in the Celebrity & Fan Fiction Category and was wondering if Lit has restrictions on how much I can make up using the real actors’ names. All the characters are over 18, so age is not a factor. The main character is a real actress, and my question has to do with a sexual situation between my character and another actor who is also real. Can I make up a sexual encounter between these two actors and use their real names? For that matter, are there any restrictions on what I can make up?

Other than good taste and respect for the actors you fantasise about?

Why don't you base your story on them, their characteristics, but without naming them? Celebrity fiction is like stalking, when you think about it.

 

[SoCalAshley]

If you are asking if my story will be in good taste and if I plan to be respectful to the real actors, the answer is yes. I disagree that celebrity fiction is like stalking.

 

[Bamagan]

I am writing my first story in the Celebrity & Fan Fiction Category and was wondering if Lit has restrictions on how much I can make up using the real actors’ names. All the characters are over 18, so age is not a factor. The main character is a real actress, and my question has to do with a sexual situation between my character and another actor who is also real. Can I make up a sexual encounter between these two actors and use their real names? For that matter, are there any restrictions on what I can make up?

By and large, what the site doesn't allow with celebrity fiction is anything in the realm of non-consent. Things that get a pass in that category will get shot down in C/FF. Depicting the celebrities engaging in illegal activities may or may not get through the approval process, but there's a slightly greater chance of it being considered defamatory, with all the potential legal consequences that could cause (not that I have ever heard of any celeb suing or otherwise legally threatening the site or any writers here). The risk of describing real people engaging in sex acts might itself be considered defamatory, of course, so you might be in a pennies versus pounds situation, but again, lots of people do it, so the legal issues are likely to be moot.

 

[TiberiusPrime]

Why don't you read through a few of the posted stories in the Celebrities & Fan Fiction Stories section? It'll give you an idea of what's acceptable.

 

[Not2Pervy]

To my very great surprise I found out the hard way you can’t portray celebrities as the victim of a crime. My attempted entry in the Crime and Punishment event last year got rejected for this even after I fully anonymized the characters by giving them (different from real life) initials instead of names. When I changed categories it sailed through.

 

[cadeauxxx]

That's my section of the site. I'm the only celeb author that posts here to my knowledge.

You can use names just fine. Most of what gets posted in celeb/fanfic these days is fan fiction to video games and other media.

As long as the story don't have non-con elements, they should be fine in the celeb section. If you want to use 2 actors, 2 actresses or whatever, that's entirely your choice. In other places of the internet, they call it 'real person fiction' (RPF)

 

[BobbyBrandt]

That's my section of the site. I'm the only celeb author that posts here to my knowledge.

You can use names just fine. Most of what gets posted in celeb/fanfic these days is fan fiction to video games and other media.

As long as the story don't have non-con elements, they should be fine in the celeb section. If you want to use 2 actors, 2 actresses or whatever, that's entirely your choice. In other places of the internet, they call it 'real person fiction' (RPF)

My "Before They Were Stars" series currently has stories involving the sexual escapades of seven named female celebrities before they achieved stardom.

 

[MelissaBaby]

I am currently working on a novel about a movie star (fictional) whose career stretches from the silent era to the nineteen sixties. She meets real life celebrities and interacts with them, and she recounts true anecdotes about them. But for the erotic elements, I am only using fictional characters.

 

[cadeauxxx]

My "Before They Were Stars" series currently has stories involving the sexual escapades of seven named female celebrities before they achieved stardom.

Cool stuff. Thank you for the reply.

 

[SimonDoom]

The Site has published rules regarding celebrities in fiction. One is the rule against "aging up": https://www.literotica.com/resources/content-guidelines. Also, I believe you cannot publish a story about a celebrity where the celebrity is the victim in a nonconsent situation. I couldn't find the link to that, however.

 

[SoCalAshley]

Thank you to everyone who has replied. You have been very helpful.

 

[AchtungNight]

I have had great success writing celeb stories with fictional relationships between various celebrities and original characters. I researched the public personas of the celebrities I depicted in each case and imagined an alternate universe where they had slightly different lives, different sexual experiences. They weren’t too different from what I knew of them through the media, just a bit sluttier- I wanted my stories to reflect reality a bit and please fans. It was fun to write and fantasize about. The site does indeed forbid non consensual sexual activity but you can still create conflict and use real life experiences of the celebrity if you want- I got such stories through many times. Best advice I can give is write it out, submit, see what happens. Good luck to you with your writing.