Which of your stories do you think has most of you in it?

From the ones that are fiction, I'd have to go for Meaningless Kisses, because Laura is certain parts of me but not me, Rachel is other parts, so as part of fleshing them out as definitely not me, I wondered how they'd get on if they met...

From the stories that are or are mostly non-fiction, there's not that much characterisation so tbh it's my body but could be almost anyone.
 
Yikes. What a great question to make me massively uncomfortable about the totality of my output.

I'm going to go with "It was the Best of Daughters", and, though I shouldn't take the dangling bait of protesting too much (wait, that's not Dickens; it's that other guy I don't like,) I'll do it anyway: no, basically nothing about the sexual setup is about me. Well, okay, fine: I do like having sex with women. That's too generic to count.

The story resonates with me because it's about an intellectual who is utterly despondent about the state of the world he finds himself in, and constantly chastises his cowardice and base instincts even as he rationalizes, indulges, and even collaborates to an extent. There's no redemption for him, only a veneer of it offered up by another broken prisoner; even her notion of punishment is just more sexual deviance that satisfies them both. Nothing he does is untainted. Whether any of it is meaningful at all is one of those grand questions.

Perhaps you can understand why I occasionally write a piece of utopian Sci-Fi/Fantasy that has basically no stakes whatsoever.
 
An odd question for me to ask maybe, given I’m the FMC in so many of my works.

I don’t mean you as an explicit character so much, but which of your stories reflects you as a person (either in general, or at a point in time)? Which covers things that are important to you, or on your mind? Which exhibits your personality traits, even if via others?

For me, this is easy. Determination has lots and lots of me and my recent preoccupations and emotions poured into it from a large pail.

How about you?

Em
None of them, I don’t think.

I’m not adventurous in any way and certainly don’t attract scrapes or attract the opposite sex like my characters. I often joked to my other half in my younger years that I was their best kept secret for my multiple skills and how awesome I looked compared to other people’s spouses.

So really the only thing of me in my stories is my sense of humour. That’s me all over and that does tend to shine through no matter what I do.
 
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I believe that there is some spark of the author in every character, but I'd say the one fictional character that is the most like me is probably Roxanne in my Gold Dollar Girl stories. (No comment on whether or not I've ever fucked in a White Castle rest room)

My Fall and Rise is pretty explicitly about me, it's as close to memoir as Lit allows.
 
I believe that there is some spark of the author in every character, but I'd say the one fictional character that is the most like me is probably Roxanne in my Gold Dollar Girl stories. (No comment on whether or not I've ever fucked in a White Castle rest room)

My Fall and Rise is pretty explicitly about me, it's as close to memoir as Lit allows.
I should have also mentioned Jessica in my Mary and Alvin series, who is pretty blatantly me sticking an avatar of myself into my story. I even named her after my cousin, because we look enough alike that people have often mistaken us for each other.
 
Most of them to some extent, but Sarah in "Anjali's Red Scarf" is the closest to me, and one of the reasons for writing that story was to express some things about myself.
 
In my stories? The Off Campus series, for sure. "Steve" is the person I wish I was.
 
Like so many here... my stories are all in the first person and the MC starts out with what I experienced, to a certain point. Then fantasy kicks in and it goes from there.

"You're not a serial rapist" is the story that is the closest to my heart.

The two other characters were real during the last year of college, although the secondary character was the only one I had "fun" with.
 
I wrote my earliest stories as fantasies to share with my wife and they have the husband and wife characters most analogous to her and I. The second woman in the series (Sarah Opens Up) was originally given my wife's middle name (not in the published version) and served as a kind of alter ego version of her. She liked being made into both of the women in a threesome. And the guy she cheated on her husband with in Sarah's New Job was also a version of me.

Since then my stories have gotten much less tethered to anything from real life. But subconscious influences always pop up. It was only after writing it that I realized there was some of that going on in Wrong Twin Rubdown as well, the twins being in some ways like two different sides of her.
 
Mama's Beach House is my first story. It definitely has the most of "me" in it. The best friends mom is the oldest fantasy I have and is sadly unfulfilled. The protagonist is a lot like me and he treats the mature beauty the way I would. It's sweet and romantic and sexy. Just like me. 😁
It's in the link below if anyone is interested.
 
I have to say that all my male characters reflect me on one way or another because I work hard at identifying with them and then asking myself the question, "What would I do in the same situation?"
I'll second that. Most of my male characters are a fantasy version of myself, and most of my female characters are fantasy versions of women I have known.

I actually wrote myself into the story as a character, named Jehoram, who wrote erotica for Literotica. Of course, none of the stuff that happened to the character actually happened to me, except in my dirty, dirty mind.

The story, if you're interested is called "A Desert Adventure."
 
The character I would most like to be? Emily in the hot tub series.

The character I am really the most like? Probably Ginnie in the "Daughters of Priapus" series.
 
Probably the two D Cup Blues stories. While they are fictional, all the characters are based on people I really knew in high school, and Dave is...well, he's what I wish I were at that age, but he does have a lot of the same characteristics I had as well.
 
"A New Green Man" probably has the most of me. The lead Character spends most of his time asking the eternal question
"What the fuck am I doing here?"
 
While there's a Walter Mitty element to all my stories and my male leads, the ones I feel have the most of me in them are my Jason and Emily Kelley stories. While they do represent some embellishments of the truth, they're the ones that I feel closest to, down to the characters' ages, family names, and the part of the country where they live*.

* Spell check almost put 'love' ... that, too.
 
If I were to choose then it would be the Goalposts series, featuring Vicki, who faces transphobia with dignity but finds time for love. She's a scientist, a sports person and passionate. She's a better version of me but Hannah, in the Under series is closer, with many of my characteristics
 
There was a story in an erotic anthology I read that had so much of me in it that the pages ended up stuck together :(
 
Any story featuring Doug Ramsay includes me, of course. Besides that, well, Passion Ch. 4 had me really pour my heart into multiple characters. And of course, Fear, Lust, & Vanity which remains my first and biggest mainly erotic work.
 
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