YOUR life, in your erotica stories.

Finally getting back into writing, sat down, and instead of writing on my WIPs, I started working on a fictional story with a factual base...how my husband and I got together. Now of course, this is interesting *to me*...but how do you decide if it's interesting to anyone else?

I'm covering 6 months. It includes artist/illustrators, bands/musicians, rock/blues, lots of sex among minor players, ex-husbands (or future-former husbands, as John taught me), psych ward visits (for my ex, not me...I'm crazy, but not THAT out of it), covert meetings, and a finale where everything comes together. It was a very strange time in my life.

It would be a complete, HFN (tho', here it is, many years later) erotic romance story, but I'm not sure the story would be interesting to anyone but me.

I tend to write genre stuff: Fantasy, suspense, etc. In a lot of ways this would strictly be erotic romance, which I rarely even read...so I'm wondering if I'm just working on something that nobody but me will ever want to read. That's fine, of course, if true; I still wonder, though.

Do you include specific examples of your personal life in your erotica stories? Do you worry about any backlash if you do? (If I actually wrote this, anyone who knew me during that time...there wouldn't be a question who/what it was about.)

Heh. If nothing else, it would be quick. I kept journals back then, some that STILL make me blush when I read them.

Example: If I did the whole story, 2 weeks after the divorce was final, he remarried. 2 weeks after that, he committed suicide, on the day that would have been our 14th anniversary. Probably wouldn't include that in the story anyway, but the whole time-period was pretty dramatic.

I guess it depends on how I write it. I don't think just changing professions/locations would make it anonymous enough.

But then...I'm paranoid. lol.

J.

I just may. If it ends up sucking as a story, I can always consider it therapy.

It's hard to imagine it totally sucking story-wise, with scenes like one of the antagonists falling off a stage mid song, into the crowd, to be passed around - in real life...but I may be overestimating my writing abililities. lol. 80% of everyone I knew back that was either a professional musican or a professional artist or graphic designer...or all of the above. Interesting times.

I do find it sort of odd that this is the first time I ever considered this as a story. lol.

I wonder if, for erotica, using personal life may not be just a bit TOO personal.

J.