What makes fictional writing illegal?

[Deleted member 68810]

So I’ve been writing a story that is extremely questionable... Read this and you’ll understand. It would be silly to get arrested for writing a ScribbleHub story—I’m only trying to show the insanity of my main character. What makes fictional writing illegal?​

 

[Mr.Grey-Cat]

So I’ve been writing a story that is extremely questionable... Read this and you’ll understand. It would be silly to get arrested for writing a ScribbleHub story—I’m only trying to show the insanity of my main character. What makes fictional writing illegal?​

Usually, it will depend on the topic you deal with, the real people you mention, and mostly your country...

Of course, that's only in extreme cases, as in those very rare cases where a fiction writer manages to actually make an impact on society, especially one that's negative or dangerous... Otherwise? you can just do your fiction, and hope for even ONE person to actually read it and care, so why even think about far-from-reach dreams, like getting arrested as a writter and making it to News? that's just overthinking.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Usually, it will depend on the topic you deal with, the real people you mention, and mostly your country...

Of course, that's only in extreme cases, as in those very rare cases where a fiction writer manages to actually make an impact on society, especially one that's negative or dangerous... Otherwise? you can just do your fiction, and hope for even ONE person to actually read it and care, so why even think about far-from-reach dreams, like getting arrested as a writter and making it to News? that's just overthinking.

I think OP simply did a very fancy self-promote instead of actually wanting answers.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Not gonna lie. This is pretty fucked up but I don't think you'll be arrested. It's not breaking any laws that I know of but I do think that you need to question yourself and rethink your life.

 

[T.K._Paradox]

So I’ve been writing a story that is extremely questionable... Read this and you’ll understand. It would be silly to get arrested for writing a ScribbleHub story—I’m only trying to show the insanity of my main character. What makes fictional writing illegal?​

What the fuck dude.

 

[Mr.Grey-Cat]

I think OP simply did a very fancy self-promote instead of actually wanting answers.

He may.... He may not, But kind Sir, SO WHAT? Is wrong to answer? is it evil to respond? No, Kind Sir, No.... The actual evil is to let a newbie's post empty, and let his shaky self esttem break. THAT, Kind Sir, is the actual evil, As Such, I Shall Not Stay Silent, I Shall, Instead Of Everyone, be the kind guy that will answer him seriously and give his sad lonely post the attention we, web authors, all want.



EDIT: ...... Okay, so I just read what the OP spoke of, and Wow.... that's SomeThing that I can't unread.... so maybe giving this shit Attention was wrong? Oops.

 

[CubicleHermit]

So I’ve been writing a story that is extremely questionable... Read this and you’ll understand. It would be silly to get arrested for writing a ScribbleHub story—I’m only trying to show the insanity of my main character. What makes fictional writing illegal?​

There's nothing illegal that I'm aware of under US law to write about a crazy/reprehensible protagonist talking about conduct that would be illegal if they acted on it in real life.

Other countries' rules differ, so the real question you need to answer (for yourself, not to us) is (A) what are the laws where you live, and (B) where else are you likely to visit?

Writing depictions of him/her/it acting on those urges is technically legal in the US (under federal law, perhaps not under state indecency laws) but is enough of a gray are that it's more likely to get your story pulled or banned by places to publish it, and might explicitly be illegal elsewhere.

 

[greyblob]

as long as you're not explicitly encouraging or portraying it in a good light, it won't matter. also, the mc seems very silly

 

[CarburetorThompson]

Certain countries have vaguely worded sexual deviancy laws, but I haven’t read the story so I can’t say if it’s anything extreme like that. I also don’t know where you live.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

He may.... He may not, But kind Sir, SO WHAT? Is wrong to answer? is it evil to respond? No, Kind Sir, No.... The actual evil is to let a newbie's post empty, and let his shaky self esttem break. THAT, Kind Sir, is the actual evil, As Such, I Shall Not Stay Silent, I Shall, Instead Of Everyone, be the kind guy that will answer him seriously and give his sad lonely post the attention we, web authors, all want.

Okay.

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

The court system of course.

Edit: Wut.
Well...SH rules of sex acts needs to be 18+ of age. That part that described the video is a no go. For the rest? Not sure. Technically, the thing was created in the moment. Not sure how that will be taken by the mods. I would guess not well just on principal.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

There's nothing illegal about writing fiction, but who will publish your work is another matter entirely. If you have money, nobody can touch you. Have you ever read the writings of Marquis de Sade?

 

[Deleted member 68810]

I got scared when I read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_status_of_fictional_pornography_depicting_minors

They do not excuse written material... But mine is not necessarily porn. The MC is just mentally ill.​

 

[Deleted member 57675]

No idea what you wrote, but based on comments here, if its something that wtf...mentally ill would not justify it. Just for the SH content guidelines alone, would refer to @Tony and this

Content Guidelines | Scribble Hub

www.scribblehub.com

 

[Discount_Blade]

So I’ve been writing a story that is extremely questionable... Read this and you’ll understand. It would be silly to get arrested for writing a ScribbleHub story—I’m only trying to show the insanity of my main character. What makes fictional writing illegal?​

The only thing I know of is the specific topic. As far as living persons, you can write about pretty much anyone that's dead as long as they have no obvious living relatives. Meaning I could write about anyone from ancient, medieval, and even industrial era people (1800's or so), but I'd probably get in trouble for writing something about people alive during the World Wars.

 

[SakeVision]

I think OP simply did a very fancy self-promote instead of actually wanting answers.

clever

 

[Ai-chan]

So I’ve been writing a story that is extremely questionable... Read this and you’ll understand. It would be silly to get arrested for writing a ScribbleHub story—I’m only trying to show the insanity of my main character. What makes fictional writing illegal?​

Nobody has ever been arrested for writing a story. Except maybe in Communist or Fascist countries where alternative political opinions are punishable by law. Even if you write stories with contents that completely breaks the law, such as rape, robbery, murder, torture and genocide, you still won't be punishable by said laws. Why? Because you didn't actually commit those offenses. Laws understand that there is a difference between fiction and reality.

So what if you write about you nuking the whole state of Alabama? Millions of people died, it's a horrible loss of humanity. But that never actually happened. You never nuked Alabama, nobody died at your hands. So how could you be punished for a crime that never happened?

That said, there have been erotica authors who were arrested, mostly in USA. But they were not arrested for writing erotic stories involving murder, robbery or child exploitation. They were arrested for other offenses, such as carrying drugs or pornographic materials across state borders. The restriction of erotica on a lot of sites has nothing to do with the law, but on trying to make the site PG-13, which means they can get advertising revenue if they ban erotica. Some sites such as Amazon and Storiesonline don't care.

 

[Psycholor]

you write about you nuking the whole state of Alabama?

it's a horrible loss of humanity.

Is it though? Is it really?

 

[Deleted member 19066]

Is it though? Is it really?

Cheeky

 

[Deleted member 58005]

What in the fuck...