Friend Fiction

I'm pretty sure that a good chunk of kids have written this when they were little. My elementary school's creative writing exercises seemed to involve a lot of it from the boys, anyway, and being 8 year old boys, these stories were often the space zombie sharks variety. There was some acid-trippy shit in there and way too many tired movie quotes because hey, we were 8 year olds, but it was good fun, and one of the kids had an epic running saga that pulled the whole class in as the crew of a ship

There was still a certain amount of it by the time I hit high school theater, and it was markedly less fun. The thing about high school theater is that the intro classes tend to attract cliques of people who fancy themselves prima donnas; it's a sad but very true and depressingly frequent stereotype (and thank god most of them didn't make it to the later classes). Certain writers in the class wrote characters that were very obviously other people in the class, fortunately usually confined to their actual cliques — but was profoundly more creepy since by that time the stories involved shipping, character death, and were mercy to the whims of more intense personal drama. More than once one someone "killed off" their friend because of some silly happening between writers. The "official class couple" wrote some sugary crap that was obviously supposed to star them, and then when they broke up halfway through the term they promptly derailed each other's characters into Hannibal Lecter. It was kind of like Sonichu, where the meta-story was rather easy to extrapolate and rather more interesting/cringeworthy than what was actually on the paper.

I hope to God it goes without saying that writing lemon of your friends is indescribably creepy.

edited 13th Dec '11 1:00:53 PM by Pykrete

The shit is this fuck?

I feel like writing a lemonfic about all the people in this thread who think it's creepy.

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If they're not creeped out immensely or offended, they'll see themselves in every story you write from then on. Best not to open that box.

I agree with USAF.

I can understand someone writing lemon or whatever it is you call it IF AND ONLY IF the friend(s) in question is/are overly flirtatious/sensual with lots of people, but otherwise or if they're related to you, NO.

Friend fiction sounds creepy, but writing transparent expies of friends and family is OK as far as I am concerned.

For example, my mum wrote a pretty interesting modern retelling of the tale of Cain and Abel, and the two protagonists are very obviously I and my brother, down to speech style and mannerisms. It's very good, I keep telling her that she should try to publish it somewhere. Plus, in the story I get to throw my brother off a cliff

edited 14th Dec '11 10:22:41 AM by Carciofus

I actually wrote a whole friend-fiction series a few years back. It started as us being villains in a regular fanfic, and it spun-off into its own thing. My friends in it really loved it. It basically ridiculously exaggerated us to extremes.

My first forays into writing were of this nature. I can only hope they will never see the light of day. (Admittedly, I haven't improved a great deal since...)

edited 27th Feb '13 11:32:55 AM by Meklar