Would it be in bad taste if I did a semi-autobiographical story?

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cottoneye

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So I had an idea for a self-indulgent, semi-autobiographical story...but I'm worried that it would be in poor taste, or at least a bad fit for this site.

OK, real talk. I got out of an abusive household last year. I'm safe and OK now. But I obviously have a lot of complicated feelings about what happened, and I was considering working them out through writing.

I don't say this to fish for sympathy or anything like that. Again, I'm OK-ish. I just want to give some context for the story idea, which, as it stands, would go something like this:

-the MC (who's basically my self-insert, though I don't consider gender important) is a 20-something who's moved into their first apartment, to get away from an abusive family

-(haven't decided how to depict the abuse, exactly, though I would want to make it explicitly clear what happened, while also not being a one-for-one recreation of my own experiences)

-the MC spends a lot of time just lying around the apartment, due to a combination of depression and avoiding the COVID pandemic

-there's a magical map hidden in the apartment, which can be used to create entire fantasy worlds -which the MC uses to create a fluffy paradise, filled with therapeutic waifus

-(this is where the porn-y stuff comes in, obviously)

-(there's a couple different routes this could go, but I'd rather not do "the MC eventually leaves the fantasy world because it was just a crutch to avoid dealing with reality", It's too overdone and too on the nose)

Let me stress this: I'm still on the fence about writing this. For a bunch of reasons, but the big ones are that I'm worried it'll make people uncomfortable, or won't fit CHYOA. If you'd rather me not post it here, please say so. If I decide to write this, I'll just do it for myself on my own time.
 
Hey, welcome to Chyoa.

I'm not sure you are asking the right question.

No one can really judge what you write, aside from personal taste and form/style/narrative parameters.

No one would(should?) even care if you're writing someting autobiographic and how much of it is real and comes from real experience.

If you think this helps you work out your issues, that's great, but no one has really to know other than you.

Just do the f#@! you want, really.

Hope this doesn't come out as rude because it's not my intention.
 
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I think a lot of folks 'self insert' to one degree or another. I don't think that's a problem at all so long as all the rules are followed. I would be careful how much I shared though. The internet never forgets.

Happy writing, whatever you decide to do :)
 
gene.sis said:
Regarding the theme of the story you want to write, I don't see an issue.
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Come on gene, I know you have an official role but you know what I meant.

He/she/they can write whatever they want as long as they don't advertise it's a 'true story'.

I was just saying there is no need to tell everyone, because no one can really know if not for such declarations.
 
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