Story Q & A

@ battalions
Yeah that makes sense! thank you for the help.

@ Carpe diem;

Adding onto what battalions said, the way I personally differentiate between R and NC-17 is by thinking about what's generally shown during sex scenes in R-rated movies. There's usually passionate kissing, nudity, sometimes oral sex, but you don't see the exact movements, details, and mechanics of it, you just know they're having sex. I think, with R-rated sex, it's more about describing the sensations and emotions than the exact "insert x into y" details

@ Carpe diem;
R rated sex scene would have more allusive language.
He slowly pulled her panties down and he smiled, feeling the vibration of her moan as he entered her.

I think you know what the NC-17 version would look like...

@ gonna hear dru roar. @ i saw sparks

Thank you

I need help figuring out how to write someone with speech issues. :x I'm not sure if anyone can help me with this, but the person i want to write about has Down Syndrome. ><

I have a story where it features eight characters (a lot, I know) but I don't want to portray the story through all of the eight characters. I have one main character who gets to know the other seven but I still want to show the point of views of the other characters - this is more of an opinion question than anything really, but do you think it's confusing for the reader if I wrote in first person pov for the main character and then end the chapter with a snippet of someone else's pov? I'd signallise it of course.

Or should I just write the whole story in third person so not many povs jump around? I'm not sure if I can write one pov for the whole story because there are sides to some characters that I want to flesh out and explore, and I'm not sure I can do so through the one character (in first person).

I hope this all makes sense

@ swell
If you write in third person you would be able to feature each of the eight characters in without it jumping around too much like it would in first person. As a reader, I really don't like pov swapping in chapters when it's in first person because it feels rather sloppy in my opinion. I think it'd fit much better if it was in third person so then you can slip in all eight point of views into one narrative person (if you get me ).

@ swell
I agree with Kayleigh; I think writing everything in third-person would be the smoothest thing. You could also make the snippets at the end their own short chapters and title each chapter after the character whose POV it is; that way you could use first-person without it being confusing if that's what you prefer to write in. I think it'd be a nice rhythm to have a long chapter / short chapter / long chapter / short chapter thing going.

@ castiel's vessel
@ battalions

I get both of youse, thanks I was trying to avoid writing in third because I find it irritating but I quite like the long / short chapter deal thing. Thanks for the help!

I have a question regarding the plot of my new story When I'm Gone. At the beginning of the story my main character is a drug addict and alcoholic and has been since he was a young teenager (he's now in his mid twenties). I know the two main events that will happen in the story is that one of his brothers will die due to a drug overdose (despite him not being an addict, it's a bit ironic) and the main character will eventually go into a treatment center/rehab and finally get the help he needs. Now, this story is very loosely based on a true story and in real life, he went to rehab first and is now completely sober and six months later his brother died from the OD but I don't want the story to end up being about his brother dying so I'm not sure if his brother should die first and have the ending as him finally getting help because he saw what the drugs did to his brother or..?

In the very beginning of a short story I have uploaded onto this site, one of the characters, a young woman, has raped the protagonist, a young man, while not in her right mind and consequently experiences a sense of overwhelming guilt.

In this setting, female on male rape is not officially recognised. When in her right mind, the woman is able to reflect and realise that it was rape and later in the draft she even outright condemns the misconception that female on male cases are impossible.

The question is, could this possibly hold up or does it seem too ludicrous? Remorse by the guilty party would of course depend on their character, but should she actually condemn the misconception about female perpetrators? I have realised that her confession to the third character shows that she is trying to persuade him that she is in fact a rapist despite the current definitions and I have thought about how strange that line of debate must seem.

I know this is an opinion based question, but would you rather a story be updated once a week at the same time or two-three updates within say, ten or so days? Oh, and if the chapters averaged from 1.5k-3k a chapter sort of thing. I'm not sure what type of length you call that - average?

@ Mirabile dictu
I think it's plausible and that would actually be interesting to read because I don't think it's ever been done before. I mean, as for the guilty part, it would entirely depend on what kind of person she is and how she goes about realising that she actually raped this person and it wasn't just sex with him.

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@ wicked ways

I think it makes more sense to me that the brother would want to go to rehab to change his ways because of his brother dying. However, it depends on what kind of person he is and whether and actually wants to change for himself or for others. If it's for himself, then his brother could die second. But then you'd also have to think of where to go with the story after his brother dies if this first guy has already been to rehab and received the help he needed.

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@ swell
Personally, I could go either way. I used to be the sort of person who would be annoyed when I would read one update and then had to wait forever for it to be updated. But now I wouldn't mind waiting for like a ten day period just to read an update.

Once a week though, if it was actually guaranteed to be updated at the same time, all the time, then that would actually be preferable. I like having the one chapter to read and then having the time to think about what's going to happen next.

Is there a way to search for a particular story? I can't quite remember the title, but I remember most of the characters.

@ ZackyEffingVengeance
You can do an Advanced Search by clicking the + next to the search bar, but aside from that, no.

Can anyone from the UK speak to how accurate this "American-British" dictionary is? I'm writing a character from England and I want to use the correct terms/slang.

@ chibs telford
It seems fairly accurate to me, I just wouldn't use certain words like "Codswallop" because if someone said that to me I'd think they're daft. Of course that's just the general British words to use and doesn't really include the slang from the different regions, so it should be fine to use and be accurate.

@ castiel's vessel
Yeah, I'm sticking to the ones I've heard before, or at least have seen used. I was mostly worried about the differing terms for things so if they're accurate, problem solved! Thank you!

How do I tag my story so it shows up under a band fan fiction page?

@ LadyRaven
Tag it as something like "[name of band], fanfiction, fanfic, bandfic, bandom" etcetera.