From there, either you put it online and I eventually find it and link to it, or you send me either a link or a
copy of the story and I link or archive. Contacting me before I find you is of course, the fastest way to get listed.
Not having super powers or global telepathy, I have been known to never find stories, and only learn of them months later when someone asked my why they were not listed...
All writers should seriously consider joining the mailing list,
in order to stay current with the arguments and feuds of the day. As well as sometimes learn something useful.
I reserve final judgement on the category I place a story in. If the guidelines above
seem to be in conflict with the judgement I make; ask me about it and I will correct, clarify, or whatever is needed.
Writing your story
If you are new to writing erotica you should read the many FAQs here at ASSTR.
Story Codes for Authors
- In the Erotica community it is extremely rude to fail to code stories, given the variety of fetishes.
If you need software for writing, I suggest starting with a look to Open Office:
it is free, which is much in the spirit of this community.
It is more feature rich than the MS competition. It also opens and saves all MS Office files, as well as those of other
major competitors. And it won't give your computer a virus or a worm or even an allergic sneeze.
NiS - this code identifies to search engines that you are a 'Naked in School' genre / world story (even if it takes place outside of school).
naked - story is in a world / place where it is normal or accepted for a notable class of people to be / live naked.
hs - Story is about high school age protagonists
exhib - exhibitionism is an element of the story or 'attraction' for readers.
voy - voyuerism is an element of the story or 'attraction' for readers.
pett - heavy petting, such as mutual masturbation.
oral - oral sex.
mf - sex occurs between male and female of high school age. NiS archive considers this 15-17, occaisionally 14 and noting that high school age often hits 18 in the last year.
Please list your story codes.
It helps me and the readers find you. The internet is big...
It is strongly
recommended that all Naked In School stories be coded with at least
'NiS', 'naked', and 'exhib'.
Doing all three will make it a
lot easier for people to 'google', search asstr, or otherwise find the work.
Here is an example of making a subject line with story codes:
Alandra Naked in School - Monday (NiS, teen, exhib, voy, naked, ff, mf)
Getting Your Story Online
Ideal method:
http://www.asstr-mirror.org/accountinfo.html:
Apply for a free and anonymous asstr account. That will give you your own
web and ftp space to post the story and control the look and feel, as well
as how you handle reader
feedback.
Do this ahead of time so you don't have to wait too long for any delays in
processing your new account.
Once your story is posted
on -your- space, let me know so I can link it.
Secondary methods:
With all of these don't forget to email me when it gets posted, so I don't
miss it. I've managed to miss a few in the past.
http://storiesonline.net/:
Sign up for a free storiesonline account, then sign up as an author, and
post your story. Once you do, I can link to it, but readers will need
their own storiesonline accounts to read it. Accounts here are however
free and anonymous (you don't need to tell them you're really George W. Bush).
Host it yourself
If you have your own legal adult-content website, you can always host the story yourself.
I do not have the time to help you in doing this, but once it is ready I can
list it on the archive.
Finally:
If none of the above works for you, I can host the story directly, but this has a few drawbacks:
Only I see how many hits it gets, and then only if asstr remembers to
send me the logs - which fails everytime there are server problems.
I host based on my own intuitive whims and personal discretion. There is no
'method' to this other than my own fancy at any given moment.
Updates and edits are delayed by how long it takes me to get to them. If
I'm away for the weekend or something your readers are stuck waiting.
The best feedback form I can give you is an email link for readers to
click on. With your own asstr page you can create your own feedback form, or
use one of the templates, and thus control and anonymize feedback.
Heck, I just don't like lists that come in fours...
[insert your own reasons here]
The NiS Program Pamphlet - a sample pamphlet, compiled from early stories, to give an idea. Most stories have minor variations.
In addition you should at least read the core stories listed on the main page.
If you really desire an understanding, I would recommend getting through the stories up through year 2003 as well.
About the 'genre'
What is this whole Naked in School thing, and how did it get so out of hand?
Most of us have had that dream - be it wishful or nightmare - of finding ourselves nude in public, and often in school.
It seems an almost universal human theme to imagine returning to our natural state, though for most of us it is an issue about embarrassment.
I suspect that if Karen hadn't written her story, somebody else eventually would have. Not the same story for sure, but something like it. By being first she managed to set the format and give us the details, but the idea is in all of us.
So what shapes this genre? There seem to be some basic common patterns:
The story is erotica. It is Naked in School and not Nudism in School or My High School Journal. It needs to be strongly erotic in tone, theme, and plot.
The nakedness is the result of a government Program, referred to as 'The Program' by the protagonist, mandating that some number of students go nude and that at least women and usually -not- men can now be naked in public.
The protagonist is a high school teenager and the story is structured as that character(s) going through a week of school naked in The Program.
The exact location of the school, and the exact date, are usually vague. The school might however be named, and the time is usually perceived as 'the very near future.'
Each chapter is one day in school, and many stories also have weekend chapters before or after - either one chapter for the whole weekend, or one for each day.
The protagonist has no viable options for getting out of the situation.
The protagonist is on public display, unable to hide, and subject to at least visual inspection. There
is constant pressure to submit to more and the protagonist will typically eventually do so.
It is usually embarrassing at first.
In the early stories there is some level of humiliation to it - even a strong character is likely to eventually face corporal punishment for some eventual slight.
The participant adapts to it - (s)he finds being naked to her liking at some point in the story.
The character will go naked outside of school at least once, and usually does so more and more often as the story progresses.
In early stories, some form of permanent record was made of the situation - usually a photograph in a school website, paper, or yearbook.
The sexual tension and explicitness builds as the story goes on - and the character will always end up having sex by the end, even if only once.
The sex is almost always consensual. The only exception that is not 'NiS_hotcoded' is Karen's original story.
Perfect contraception exists, and vaccines prevent all STDs.
Most of the characters develop a romantic tie during the week. Karen did not, Alandra does not, but I'm not sure there are any other exceptions.
Just like in any good story, the character must change and grow - in NiS it has always been a positive change and has always been a result of the Program.
Not every story has followed every rule above, but they fit for the majority of the works.
Comments from the writers on how to write for NiS
This is an open call. If you're a Naked in School writer with a story I've hosted or linked to, I want to know what you have to say to others who want to write in the NiS genre. Send me your tips for them, and I will post. I do of course, reserve the write to make judgement calls over that.
.B says:
Perhaps the hardest part of writing an NIS story about a teenager in the classroom and their reactions to life was remembering the rampant feelings and their depth at that time of my life. I kept having to think back to what it was like and trying to remember how I and my friends reacted. It would have been extremely easy to step out of character, either by acting too old or too young for the character I was writing about or by putting on paper reactions that would have come from someone with more ëlife experienceí and more judgement.
My main purpose of writing about Susan was to portray not only the depth of feeling at the death of a close friend, but also the resilience of a teenager at facing life and moving on. In a way it was about my life, at a similar age, I lost a best friend to a sudden illness and not much later, I lost another close acquaintance to suicide so I did have those feelings to write about. In a way, Susan was a catharsis.
I donít think I could have written the story the way I did if I hadnít had the main character a female - it would have been too close. Writing from a different viewpoint allowed me to isolate my own experiences and use them creatively instead of simply remembering and re-experiencing them. One thing we all have to keep in mind when weíre writing is that the experiences a character goes through changes them, just as our experiences change us, we have to show that in our stories if we are to create a believable story.
Susan was also a story about changing from a child into a young adult and I found that I had to cram a development that would have taken a real person months or years into a week. A child is very egotistical and thinks the world is centred around them, whereas a teenager suddenly realises that there are others in the world just as important as they are. NIS is based in one of the most challenging times in the development of a person's character, using a basic fear of nudity, along with the possibility of ridicule and humiliation by others and turning that into a method of character development seems to me to be the whole point of this genre.
The only things I can say in the way of advise to others is to write about things you know and about feelings and actions that your character would feel and do in the world you create.
DrWho says:
I've had a ton of positive comments about my first story as well as some
negatives. While the positives far outweigh the negatives, it is interesting to
see how people differ on opinions. You can't please everyone, it's a fact of
life we have to live with, but you can do your best to please the majority of
them if you so choose (or want) to do so.
I write for my own pleasure, no one else's. If people like what I've done, then
great. If not, well then that's their problem...not mine. So with that being
said the first piece of advice I could offer is write for yourself, not for
someone else. If you aren't happy with your own story, what's the point of
writing then?
My first story took a whopping 8 months to write...part of that due to me
loosing access to the hard drive where the files were stored...the other part
due to various time constraints, personal life, etc.. In all actuality had the
HD issue not happened...the story probably would have been completed in 4
months. Not quick at all, but then again I didn't plan ahead very well. So the
next piece of advice I could offer is plan ahead. While publishing each chapter
when completed might seem a novel idea, it becomes a royal pain in the arse if
something happens and you're delayed on the next one. For shorter stories it's
probably a better idea to publish a completed work, IMHO. It keeps the 'fans'
or 'visitors' to your site much happier. I can't begin to count the number of
"When's the next chaper/day coming?" e-mails I received while writing NIS: Mike
& Megan.
With the new changes to the NIS Collection page we now have stories classified
into three main groups: 'The Core Stories', 'Following Line' and 'First
Deviation'. Most new stories being written are falling into the last group.
The first thing you probably should do is figure out which group you're going to
write for, most likely one of the last two. When I get time I might try and
create a 'Second Deviation'...sounds like fun!
I chose to change a few minor details in my stories. A big change was you
rarely find mention of groping in the halls or reasonable requests. The other
is the toned down sexuality of the story. I personally think that having the
characters boink someone or something every other hour gets just a bit annoying.
Again, that's a personal opinion and not in any way the best choice or the
worst. The vast majority of comments I received on the first story dealt with
that issue and all but two (2) were positives. I guess reading different
stories with a common plot and common variables can get pretty boring after a
while...so don't be afraid to throw a few 'curve balls' in there. I can promise
you the future stories I write will have quite a few.
.B mentioned something about how he found it hard to figure out how he would
have reacted to situations and feelings based on that time in his life. That is
definitely a problem that any NIS writer is going to have to consider, not to
mention take quite a bit of time to iron out. A big thing I see there is the
fact that teenage life in the past differs widely by decade, sometimes even by a
few years. What might have been odd or 'out of scope' for someone in their
teens during the 60's became perfectly normal in the 90's. Then again what
might have been ok in the 60's would be ridiculous in the 90's.
I'm fairly young (mid twenties and before you ask; yes...there is at least one
other NIS author younger than me that I know of). I sometimes find it hard to
relate to how I would have handled those situations...and that's with only a
mere 8 to 10 years having passed. For someone older it's definitely going to be
a challenge.
There's alot of talk about character's acting 'their age'. Well, there's a
problem I see there in that when I was 16 I had more friends who were 20 to 30
than who were my own age. Those friends were my own age generally were
considered 'mature for their age', as was myself. Then again I also know quite
a few people in their twenties and thirties who are less mature than some teens
or dare I say it, 8 year olds.
The point here is every human being is unique, so your characters should also be
unique. While some characters might be very childish, other may appear to be
very adult like. Some might have some very prominent childish tendencies while
also exhibiting some very adult tendencies. I'd personally say most teens today
fit that description the best...kinda a middle ground so to speak. To me a
story which focuses too much on one or the other is boring as it's almost a bit
unbelievable. Then again a story which is too believable might be a tad on the
boring side, so a nice medium might be the best option.
And last but not least...get a team of people together to help you with the
stories. I made the mistake with my first one of not doing this and I regret
it. If my past English/Lit teachers saw it...they'd beat me silly. I can
already hear them say, "How did that happen? You were always a good writer with
good grammar and spelling skills...". Well, when you spend so much time writing
a story you get sucked right into it and kinda look over very obvious
errors...quite easily overlook them...so easy in fact it's downright
scary...even after giving yourself a break for a while, you're still going to
over look things. Get yourself at least two other people to proofread your
stories. Two would be the BARE MINIMUM I'd recommend. As they say, the more
the merrier!
tenyari's reply:
I posted the above, and there is good advice in there, but...
I think we need to remember that this is NAKED In school.
Too many stories have left the characters clothed too often, or not spent
enough time in school. Some authors rush through the school part of the
chapter, and then give us pages and pages of romance BS.
The school and the naked are getting lost. In addition, it is erotica, and
the sexual tension needs to be there in a strong way, even if the actual
sex is not.
As for derivations, the 'Core' stories is not a style, but merely 'an era.'
That is where I've put the original stories that told us what NiS is.
On acting your age, even a teen who socializes with adults is not an
adult...
CWatson says:
As a reader steeped in science-fiction, I thought it might be appropriate to touch on some of the background aspects of the NiS stories, the whole 'how we got here' aspect. A lot of stories (Frank Downey, Jeremy Spencer) just dive straight into the plot, and for a very good reason--you don't NEED any of this to write a good Naked In School story. But it can add immeasurably to the story if you want to spend the time on it.
The NiS program is generally thought of as taking place in an alternate present or possible future. A series of medical breakthroughs have resulted in 1) the conquering of AIDS and all STDs, and 2) the development of highly effective birth control. These two factors have resulted in a rebirth of the "Free Love" ideal, and sexual standards have been relaxed across the board. Further details vary from story to story, but the key point is that NiS stories take place in a world very similar to, but NOT IDENTICAL to, ours. Some things are different: the lack of STDs, the birth control. Can other things be different as well?
Yes. They sure can.
And that's where things start to get interesting.
In your story, how often do people go around naked under NORMAL circumstances? My stories take place on the initial crest of the Naked In General phenomenon, where it's still relatively rare for people to go nude; Caultron's "Adam & Vivian" is on the opposite end of the spectrum, where, if anything, it's weird for people to have clothes on. Each one has its own interesting situations and possibilities. In my stories (and feel free to steal this idea), a counterculture rebel group might go naked as a form of "self- expression"--you got the Goths, the stoners, the skaters, and now the naked people. In Caultron's, it'd be the exact opposite: you got the goths stoners skaters... the CLOTHED people. ("God, what's up with THEM?" "I think they're, like, making a STATEMENT or something." "Chyeah. Well. That is, like, SO totally Stone Age." You see my point.)
In your story, what medical and scientific advances are there? Again, Caultron and I sit on opposite ends of the spectrum: mine is limited to the basic anti-virals and contraceptives, whereas in his story, people can actually reprogram their appearance using genetic modifications. (I wanted maglev hovercars, but circumstances conspired against me.) There's also a story out there where the male lead drives in to school in a hovercraft, but I can't remember which one it is, and another (or possibly the same one) in which the male lead uses a Star-Trek-style viewscreen / videophone to talk to his father in the military. All of these things change the scope and potential of your story. Cheap worldwide transportation could lead to a proliferation of foreign exchange students ("Naked in School in France") or even totally multicultural establishments. Cheap videophone communication would alter the face of long-distance relationships and phonesex / cybersex, among other things. You could go REALLY future-forward and have Naked In School On Mars or something. The sky's the limit; I'm just making sure everybody KNOWS there's a sky.
Finally, there are the practical concerns. If your characters are going to go around naked outside of school on a very frequent basis, how are they going to keep track of their wallet, keys, etc? What new industries have opened up in lieu of the fashion industry? What is Calvin Klein doing now that he's out of work? How do women deal with periods? Have tampons simply become socially acceptable sights? Are there new drugs that simply shut down periods entirely (as the pill sometimes does today)? How have restaurant regulations changed?--it's not public-decency laws that mandate "No shorts no shoes no service," but rather public SANITATION laws. In fact, just about ANY public location where people sit down is subject to these changing regulations. How normal and acceptable is sexual expression? Do people have sex in public? Are there rules governing "Public Displays of Affection"? Does the term even still EXIST? The cheap AIDS cure: has it been spread to Africa? I sure hope so, since even TODAY 1 person in 5 has AIDS in Africa. But how will that change the economic and political structure of the world? Today, America is on its way out, being replaced by India and China, which between them contain about 2 billion of the world's 6 billion people; labor is cheap there (which is why all our jobs are going there), and they're starting to have spending power. Both of these countries have begun to rise because the standard of living there has made enormous strides in the past few decades. If Africa undergoes the same revolution, what will happen there, and to the planet around it? That's a question /I/ hope to address in one of my stories; but that still leaves about fifteen or twenty others for somebody else.
Ask yourself questions, as many of them as you can think of. Some of the answers may be useless to you... But some of them may galvanize your story, adding new angles and new characters that you had never dreamed of. There is no such thing as an overdeveloped story. Don't hesitate to play around, is the point. What you find will probably make you--and the readers--grin. And isn't that the whole point of writing?
