Facing down a dilemma

[HallKogan]

As a few of you know, I’ve strung together a fun little fiction series based on a young couple named Krista and Billy.

At first my stories had a definite foot centric hook, being that I wrote them back when I was a member of another forum.

When I decided to bring them here, I rewrote them to include some tickling, which worked out well enough.

After taking time away for life related things, I started re reading the series, and to be honest, I really missed the characters. I feel drawn to writing them again. And since returning, I’ve been able to tap out chapter after chapter with more ease than I imagined.

But I’m noticing something. I’ve felt the stories change as the characters develop. They’re obviously getting more comfortable with each other, and falling deeply in love. And while I certainly don’t have to force any scenes with tickling, I’ve noticed that the story is blossoming into something different.

At its core, this series is about a regular guy who crushes hard on a girl, but can’t bring himself to make a move because he’s so awestruck. Seeing her laugh from getting tickled awakens something in him, and he pursues a friendship. In a chance moment, she admits her feelings for him.


Okay enough, here’s where I get to the point.


I’m worried about this story becoming too big, for lack of better term, if every chapter starts to become more of a sweet love story and less of a tickle fest, is it still going to be welcome here? Or should I just pack it in and take it all somewhere else?

I’ll admit that I’m not exactly sure where this story is going, but I’m excited to find out. I hate to come off as a pretentious artist who takes his pen and goes home, but do I have any right to stop a story from becoming everything it should be?

 

[Tenebrae]

As a fellow author, I'll just say this: write something beautiful. Whether it contains tickling or not, if you feel it makes for a BETTER work, then that's the direction it should go. IMO, a story is not, and should not, be seen as mere wank fodder, especially not by its author. It's a work of art, and it SHOULD have a life of its own. While there is an undeniable "technical" aspect to writing (it surely is a craft as much as it is an art), the best stories tend to indeed "write themselves", to a degree.

So, if that's the way you feel it is going, you should go for it and not look back.

That's what I think, at any rate. Good luck! 😉

 

[HallKogan]

As a fellow author, I'll just say this: write something beautiful. Whether it contains tickling or not, if you feel it makes for a BETTER work, then that's the direction it should go. IMO, a story is not, and should not, be seen as mere wank fodder, especially not by its author.

Thank you. I never set out to write any “wank fodder” and that thought that I was writing anything like that might put me off writing.

I had something that my mind created, and I shared it because I wanted people to enjoy it.

I wanted it to be a romantic alternative, so maybe someone somewhere would breeze by here and find something that makes them feel better about themselves. And maybe they can share it with that special someone in their life, and they’ll enjoy it together.

Now they do engage in some teasing, and there’s arousal involved, but it’s because they love each other so much that even if there was no tickling involved they would feel the same way.

They’re so in tune with each other, that they both know what buttons to push, and they enjoy it. It’s like a private game all their own.


I struggled with just what exactly I’d be unleashing when I started writing again. But if one person, just one... walks away from something I wrote feeling like they just fell in love instead of lust, then I’ve done what I set out to do.


And as always I see myself as your humble storyteller.