Forum: Author Hangout

For me, it was the stories of Vulgus, Amanda Serve and Mike McGifford. I am not sure what one in particular really convinced me that I should try to write. If I had to pick two it might be "My Brother's Revenge" and "Hard Times" that really got me thinking.

My goal initially was to give back for all the entertainmment they gave me. Then I started to shift to the hopes that if people liked my writing and got inspired they would write similar stories as well.

Then now, it has evolved to just telling stories that exist in my head so that I can live vicariously through the telling. I spend a lot of time caught up in the current moment I am writing. As an example, I'll replay the current chapter I am writing in my head a dozen times and not give a lot thought to past or future chapters.

It was like that when I was reading stories. I used to think I'd make a capable editor. I was so wrong about that. I am a terrible editor (grammatically). I thought an editor would be more of a story consultant to give advice on the direction. I probably did more harm than good as an editor because I was just using MS Word's internal spell checker and my common sense to help with the technical delivery of the story. It was my lazy way of trying to dip my feet in the pool of story writing.

Once I finally made the plunge to tell my story, my initial writing was garbage. If anyone reads my early stories they seem like cringe compared to my newer ones (IMHO). It took me a while to find my niche and develop some decent writing skills. I am still nowhere near some of the other writers here. Severusmax springs to mind. He has a dozen other psuedonyms probably. His writing is professional "I'd pay for that" level.

I suppose the ones that initially inspired me most to START though was Hard Times (not currently on the site) which was about a rich girl who has to move to a trailer park and live with her trashy Aunt and her family OR My Brother's Revenge by Vulgus. It was a short tale about a girl who gets blackmailed by her brother into serving him. However, it always seemed like she got off on it and at any point could have told him to forget it. I attempted (with his blessing) to add to that story with a sequel where she comes to him and asks him to start over before summer is up. She really grew a lot during that story and it was my first exposure to the concept of an evolution of a character from naive teenager to young woman who owns her kinks and sexuality and realizes she is actually kind of a submissive anyway.

Vulgus doesn't write much anymore- convinced perhaps that he has told all the stories he has to tell. I think he has more in him and was excited to see his recent return.

I've recently liked a few new authors quite a bit however, if I had to say who inspired me to start it would be those two stories in particular. They definitely keep me writing and enjoying the site. MaryS, EdwardEc spring to mind with their current stories. However, the original classics are what I keep going back to as my inspiration.

you?

None.

Some of us were inspired by other things.

My desire to write kicked-in in the late-1980s. Unfortunately, I did not have the abilities to write a descent story. I tried periodically to write a coherent story with no success. I tried again early in 2014, and received some help from one of SOL's volunteer editors. About the time I figured out my main problems and how to resolve them, the editor and I parted ways. Apparently, he wanted to edit stories that had a much higher level of sexual content than I was comfortable writing. My relationship with him soured me on immediately getting another editor. I limped along for several years until TeNderLoin offered to help me improve the quality of my stories without trying to control what I wrote.

None.

I started writing because I couldn't find any stories covering my favourite fetish. Those stories have and never will be shared.

After that I branched out into science fiction, mostly space operas. Some of those stories have been shared elsewhere.

For SOL, I like to think I've tried to write several different types of stories. Any similarity with the output of other authors is mostly unintentional.

AJ

you?

No stories on here.

I damn near predate DARPANET, let alone the internet. So I started reading dead tree novels because that was the only thing available. I also was rather precocious regarding reading, by starting with Jules Verne's '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' when I was five. Yes, the actual novel, not a kids version or the Disney movie.

My first written work was a piece of fanfic for Star Trek that I wrote when I was twelve. I had a couple of non-fiction pieces published in trade journals when I was in college, and I even wrote something that I never actually mailed off to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine back then.

I've been content through the intervening decades to simply read stories. I finally decided after a while that it was time to start putting some of my ideas down. Worst case, I put them up here and no one likes them. But I'll have at least put them up. Best case ...

Well, best case is what's going on right now, with editing one of my stories before sending it off to a dead tree publisher. And then hoping. My wife thinks it'd be incredibly cool to go into Barnes & Noble and see my name on a book, and so do I.

No story inspired me to write. I started writing short stories to create content for a story site I built to learn HTML and about the internet.

But the story that inspired the way I originally wrote was "The Humiliation of Jane" by Anonymous. This was before SOL. I think I read it on the White Shadows site (long gone).

For me, it was long before SOL even existed.

In the early 1990's, stories were starting to circulate on BBS sites, and I hosted a great many on my board. There was no video yet, at most JPG and a few low resolution GIF files of maybe 5 or 6 frames. But stories were small, so quick to transfer at 9600.

And yes, they were bad. I even posted one here about Alf, and that was typical of the quality. I wrote a few back then, even some for an Adult Text Adventure game that was popular at the time.

But in 1995 when I discovered USENET, I started reading them again. And they were still mostly bad. A few outstanding writers like Anne Douglas, but most were absolute trash. So I started writing again, mostly as a way to make the kind of stories that I would like to read.

At least a little thought to character development and setting, not just throwing together 2 people, and a paragraph later have him shoving his 10" wanger into a 14 year old girl and she loving it.

I guess for me, most of my inspiration was the revulsion I felt at reading most of the stories. Which is why even today, I try to tell a story first and last, but include enough sex I hope to keep it interesting.

Another long before SOL writer. I was a scribbler in high school and college, and sold my first story in the early 90s, and within a few years began making a living in one way or another in combinations of writing, editing, and proofreading — which I still do today.

That said, three writers available on SOL kicked me hard in the id when I met their work on alt.sex.stories.moderated in the mid-90s to mid-00s: Phil Phantom, Don Lockwood, and Gina Marie Wylie. I eventually grew out of PP's influence on my style of erotica, but "Spitfire and Messerschmitt" has echoed in just about everything I've written with teenage characters since I first read it. And lately I've been diving deep in Lockwood's oeuvre trying to figure out why his style works as well as it does (for me, anyway).

I've other influences, of course, but those are the biggies of SOL authors.

I started writing fiction back in the 1970s and kept at since then. However, in the 1990s I decided to try my hand at writing entertaining fiction instead of the government fiction I'd been writing for over 20 years. Government fiction is where you get imaginative in writing reports and funding requests in ways you know will appeal to the senior bureaucrats and the politicians so you can get the funds to do what needs to be done and reports that cause them to keep their fingers out of the work your unit does.

The first entertaining fiction I wrote was Ed's New Life and that came out of a lunch discussion at work about the government funding requests we were doing where a comment was made about how about it must be to write porn. A bet followed, which I won with the first short draft of ENL which I later went on to fill out and got it published on-line on an Irish story selling site. Then I discovered SoL and started reading and publishing on SoL.

One sad things is I no longer have the original story files thanks to the local Gestapo and I didn't start putting copyright dates on the stories for many years, so a lot of those early stories wear a wrong copyright date that's years after I originally wrote them due to me assigning an arbitrary date that was the earliest I had evidence for at the time I made a project of putting copyright dates on the stories.

It wasn't a story on SOL. I read so many poorly plotted, poorly written, poorly edited, and just NOT my cup of tea that I decided to write my own.

Since that time I've found a few authors worth reading.

I can't remember if any particular writer inspired me to start writing.

There has been some cases when I thought - What if this happened instead? That was the inspiration of my latest story.