Stories Based on Real Events

[Stanfield2025]

The site had no clue what was happening. It was just karmic universal coincidental timing that said "Fuck you in particular, Liz."

Whether it had a clue or not doesn't change that it still pulls some bullshit.

 

[Erozetta]

Whether it had a clue or not doesn't change that it still pulls some bullshit.

Nah, I've got nothing against the site. @Laurel added an editor's note for suicide prevention lines and I was grateful. I wanted to, but wasn't sure I could with the "no links outside or phone numbers" aspect. I respect that the piece took longer than normal for approval because the subject matter was hard and probably needed a human to review. I appreciate that she put it through with the editor's note.

This wasn't site bullshit, it was good moderation with absolutely horrible timing, lol.

 

[Stanfield2025]

Nah, I've got nothing against the site. @Laurel added an editor's note for suicide prevention lines and I was grateful. I wanted to, but wasn't sure I could with the "no links outside or phone numbers" aspect. I respect that the piece took longer than normal for approval because the subject matter was hard and probably needed a human to review. I appreciate that she put it through with the editor's note.

This wasn't site bullshit, it was good moderation with absolutely horrible timing, lol.

Well, at least it was published at all. It was a good piece.

 

[Stanfield2025]

Was there a real island with cloned dinosaurs? Nope. Have people built projects that got out of hand? Yep. Depends how specific the "based on" needs to be.

That is a good point. Honestly, I find the conscious integration or real life events into fiction more interesting than unconscious integration, since it gives a clear insight into the creative process people use.

 

[dmallord]

Truth is stranger than fiction as they say.
A college friend was at a party and watched a girl confront an older woman about sleeping with her boyfriend. Turns out it was her mom...
There are probably very few stories on Lit in the basic categories where something remarkably similar hasn't happened in real life a time or two.

Just submitted a story about that situation. Don’t know when it will post but deals with a mother stealing a girls’s boyfriend on the night of her eighteenth birthday. It was supposed to be her under the stars but it’s not like that happened. The scene isn’t pretty...

 

[dmallord]

Yeah, I was sort of saying-without-saying that practically every idea comes from stuff we already know about or thought about or heard about or experienced.

It is vanishingly rare that a fiction idea is original at all. Even the very first people to ever write down a fiction story weren't being completely original, because there was an oral tradition long long long before writing was invented.

There is practically nothing you can write which wasn't a real event somewhere sometime. Whether you had that specific instance in mind or not when you started writing, you definitely have previous experience with the idea because of hearing about someone somewhere sometime having done it.

Sort of like give a bunch of monkeys typewriters, and eventually they’ll recreate Shakespeare, sort of thing?

 

[Britva415]

Sort of like give a bunch of monkeys typewriters, and eventually they’ll recreate Shakespeare, sort of thing?

No

 

[Stanfield2025]

Just submitted a story about that situation. Don’t know when it will post but deals with a mother stealing a girls’s boyfriend on the night of her eighteenth birthday. It was supposed to be her under the stars but it’s not like that happened. The scene isn’t pretty...

Holy shit that sounds insane. That household's about to turn uncomfortable indeed...

 

[dmallord]

Holy shit that sounds insane. That household's about to turn uncomfortable indeed...

Short scene between the birthday girl and her boyfriend right before it goes ballistic:

“Sorry I didn’t get here earlier,” he whispered, trying for casual as he slid an arm around her.

“Your mom needed some help cleanin’ up. Looks like they’re busy… You wanna slip into the pool house?”

She twisted free.

“Helpin’ her clean up yer little swimmers, I suppose,” she snapped.

“You leave any grill marks on her pussy?

“Maybe stained the sheets in her bed?

“You fucked her, Nico.”

The words hit him like venom.

 

[Stanfield2025]

Short scene between the birthday girl and her boyfriend right before it goes ballistic:

“Sorry I didn’t get here earlier,” he whispered, trying for casual as he slid an arm around her.

“Your mom needed some help cleanin’ up. Looks like they’re busy… You wanna slip into the pool house?”

She twisted free.

“Helpin’ her clean up yer little swimmers, I suppose,” she snapped.

“You leave any grill marks on her pussy?

“Maybe stained the sheets in her bed?

“You fucked her, Nico.”

The words hit him like venom.

I didn't expect him to be cocky about it, wow.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I didn't expect him to be cocky about it, wow.

Baby, she said she had better tits than you, I was defending your honor!