Referencing other works

[NaughteeDragon]

What is the standard for referencing other works?
I have a story I'm working on. One of the characters has an incest kink and has adopted a couple of phrases from a story on LE. People familiar with the story will recognize it, otherwise it's just some story that they keep talking about but not actually naming.
The story is also inspired by another story (A Sister's Request by Tyzmartar), and they do make an oblique reference to it.
I'm not sure either author is still active, neither has updated anything in over a year.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

The first thing I would do is ask. You can send an author private feedback from their profile page.

What I actually did was mention the authors involved in the author note, but in retrospect I should have just contacted them directly.

-Annie

 

[ElectricBlue]

What is the standard for referencing other works?
I have a story I'm working on. One of the characters has an incest kink and has adopted a couple of phrases from a story on LE. People familiar with the story will recognize it, otherwise it's just some story that they keep talking about but not actually naming.

Treat it like you would a song lyric.

"Include a reference to the author in the body text, as you would a singer," he said, while listening to the Leonard Cohen song.

This suggestion is on the basis that it's only a couple of phrases being repeated from the original story, not copying a major chunk of text.

 

[SimonDoom]

If I were you I would first ask myself, why do I want to do this? What artistic purpose does it serve?

When you quote a song lyric or brief phrase from a famous song or movie, you are calling upon the reader's expected stock of knowledge to enhance the story. This purpose is not served by similarly quoting a Literotica story, because the overwhelming probability is that only a very tiny percentage of readers will have any idea what you are referring to. So why do it?

Instead, take the broad idea of the other story, which is not proprietary and to which you owe no duty of attribution, and create your own unique expressive twist to it. Paraphrase, don't quote. You gain everything by doing this, and you lose nothing.

If the "phrase" you are borrowing is a sufficiently non-unique and non-inventive use of the English language, then the other author doesn't own it, and you are under no obligation to credit the author.

 

[PennyThompson]

For what it's worth, you're allowed to embed links to other Literotica stories into your own story! It's the only kind of link that is allowed in a lot story, as far as I know.

What's nice about that is, along with citing your source, you could also drive some views back to the author your admire!

 

[TheWritingGroup]

For what it's worth, you're allowed to embed links to other Literotica stories into your own story! It's the only kind of link that is allowed in a lot story, as far as I know.

What's nice about that is, a long with citing your source, you could also drive some views back to the author your admire!

I believe you can also link to a profile.

-Annie

 

[PennyThompson]

I believe you can also link to a profile.

-Annie

Oh yeah you're right! I totally forgot, I've linked to writer profiles in my author notes to thank people for help, and I've also linked to my own series landing page. I guess as long as you're keeping your links inside Lit, it's all good?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Oh yeah you're right! I totally forgot, I've linked to writer profiles in my author notes to thank people for help, and I've also linked to my own series landing page. I guess as long as you're keeping your links inside Lit, it's all good?

Lit proper. You can't link to the Forum (and I suspect, not to the store or the videos or the chat, either, but i haven't tried).

-Annie

 

[Naughtylit81]

I think it depends on how much you are describing/referencing the story.

"Jill found herself masturbating to her favorite mother-son story imagining herself in Karen's place..."

Probably no reference needed.

"Jill opened up chapter 102 of her favorite mother-son story where Queen Contrivance of the Examplars once again was riding her son Uniqua the Bold in the tentacle filled pit of ick..."

Probably want to throw in a title and/or author. Either in the narrative or in an authors note if you can't fit it into the text.

As far as asking the author goes you are writing Disney a letter if you reference a scene from Star Wars and I don't think a passing reference needs permission either. It is a nice to not a need too.

Now if you characters start to recreate the scenes and cosplat as the characters then yeah get permission.

 

[PennyThompson]

the tentacle filled pit of ick

Did that come original to the castle, or did Queen Contrivance have it custom built after she bought it?
And I thought cleaning and maintaining a backyard pool was a pain