I am trying to imagine what directly writing personal erotic fantasies would look/feel like. Yes, that's an interesting approach to thinking about the voyeur vs.self insert type thing. I agree that I was actually trying to write myself into an erotic fantasy, it would not be the same thing as writing any of my characters, whether male or female into a sex scene or any kind of a scene actually. There is not only a degree of removal from self when creating characters, but there is the situation you've set up within the story that helps determine what they do. The characters may have a degree of me in them, certainly they do or I couldn't be creating them, but they are not me. However, now that I think about it, even if I was writing myself into a scene, it would still be myself as a character rather than the totality of who I really am. Huh, convoluted.
The Total Recall fantasy is a potent one. I've often thought of writing a sci fi story in which this is possible. I think many people would never leave the house. LOL. The whole time factor thing too, going for two weeks mentally and it really only is a few minutes. How disorienting.
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Date: 2010-07-17 10:31 pm (UTC)Yes, that's an interesting approach to thinking about the voyeur vs.self insert type thing. I agree that I was actually trying to write myself into an erotic fantasy, it would not be the same thing as writing any of my characters, whether male or female into a sex scene or any kind of a scene actually. There is not only a degree of removal from self when creating characters, but there is the situation you've set up within the story that helps determine what they do. The characters may have a degree of me in them, certainly they do or I couldn't be creating them, but they are not me. However, now that I think about it, even if I was writing myself into a scene, it would still be myself as a character rather than the totality of who I really am. Huh, convoluted.
The Total Recall fantasy is a potent one. I've often thought of writing a sci fi story in which this is possible. I think many people would never leave the house. LOL.
The whole time factor thing too, going for two weeks mentally and it really only is a few minutes. How disorienting.