Questions from a writer about stripping.
Hi there!
I'm writing a scene in a story, which involves a guy's bachelor party and one of the guests decides to pull a surprise for him, even though he expressly said to others no strippers. I've been to a few bachelor parties personally, but none have ever had strippers believe it or not. So I just have some questions if anyone might be interested in helping me with their opinion. =)
1. Is it very likely/possible that someone could "sneak in" a stripper as a surprise? What I mean, is that is it possible for the stripper to be ready and such?
2. Have you or anyone you know, ever had such an experience and how did you handle it/react to it? Did you continue? Did you stop? How did your chaperone handle it? (I apologize if you don't call them chaperones. I'm not really sure what they are called....)
3. How long does a party last for you?
4. Is there a somewhat typical stripper outfit you might wear and slowly strip down?
I can't really think of any other questions right now. Maybe more later if I can think of them and these don't bore you all to death. Any help any of you could provide would be most appreciated as this is something I have little to no knowledge of.
Have a great New Years! =D
Re: Questions from a writer about stripping.
Well, you make a giant cake. :)
And, although it looks so easy in the movies, I've never had a stripper actually survive the baking. :-\
Oh well, maybe next time.
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Why don't you have a party and hire a stripper? If you sell your story, you can write off the party expenses as research. Or you could read around this forum, especially the "Private Dance" section. All your questions would be answered by having a good read throughout the different sections here.
Speaking as a writer myself, the simple answers you would get from asking such questions won't really help you write. You would write from a more credible perspective by stepping into your characters' heads, and if your stripper character is a fully-developed person rather than a stock stripper, your whole story will be better. And you would be able to get into her head and write her more easily by spending a lot of time reading here and getting to know some dancers, and of course by experiencing firsthand what a party dancer does.
Hey, it's New Year's Eve. Probably not too late to hold a New Year's party this week!
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What Yek said. More suited for Private Dancing.
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The story is more about the Bachelor than the stripper. What I'm more interested in figuring out is how such a hypothetical situation would be responded to. The stripper is essentially a stock character.
Plus...I think it'd be kinda mean to throw a party with a stripper and play out this said situation for the sake of research. =P
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not if you pay her adequately ...
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What would be mean about having a party and enjoying yourself?
Anyway, I find that stories with stock characters are usually poorly written and dull. Just because she's a minor character doesn't mean she can't be believable and interesting. In fact, interesting supporting characters are often what makes the difference between an okay story and a great one.
Most of what I write these days is screenplays, and the best advice I ever got was to make ALL characters interesting. I have to think from the point of view of my actors; they want something to do, and even the day players want at least one good scene. If you can't give a character at least one really great scene, then the character is unnecessary and you shouldn't have him. That same advice works for novels and short stories as well.
And I also find that I sound stupid when I write about things I've never experienced, at least on some level. While some crazy thing might happen that you never went through, the stripper scene will not be plausible if you've never seen a stripper work. Your audience will know.
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As an actor, and an avid reader, I fully agree with Yek. She's so right.
A well known playwrite, Lanford Wilson even said about some of his shows that he put in charactors for convienience, to keep the story moving, and so on. I was in a show like this and the guy I was seeing played a stock type character. It's awful for the actor, and makes a ton of extra work for them. They have to make a boring character interesting. In a book, the reader has to deal with this burdon, and it makes reading less enjoyable, b/c they have to work to make it interesting.
You should set up a party, if you're dead set on this story. It'll make a huge difference in how good it is :)
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I appreciate everyone's willingness to help me with writing this, but I think I may have created some sort of confusion. I am not writing a story about a guy who didn't want a stripper at his Bachelor Party, rather this is merely one scene among many in the book. To create another storyline for the stripper would just detract from the overall story, although I do agree that some depth is good for all characters. Furthermore, it'd be rather expensive to throw a party for this one small scene, especially since I'm a "poor, straving 3rd-year university student" (okay, so maybe some of that was a slight exaggeration =P).
None the less, I will take the advice given earlier and check out a lot of the threads in Private Dancing. =)
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1. Yes, a girl can be snuck in, but one of the people needs to set up the music and place for the buck and make him think something else is on.. or some strange thing.
2. To what? handle what, exactly? Dancing? I just did it. My security watched.
3. 15 minutes - 30 minutes.
4. I wear a cop outfit and dance to Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, but I'm strange. I always enter on 'Who's that Creepin' '... I wear a sexy bra and pantie set underneathe that unties. Normally, I bend over backwards til my head touched the ground to take off my top... and I lay down and tease the guys in front I'm taking off my bottom but then put my legs in the air and then over my head (hard to explain) to take them off for the guys behind me instead.
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LM- just reading about that was soooo hot! I think I've been naughty, I might need to be arrested ;)