Cara Bristol is hosting today's Spanking Round Table Discussion
and the question is how have your spanking stories evolved since you began
writing?
When I first started writing BDSM/spanking erotica/erotic romance, I
wrote consensual scenes and more erotic spanking scenes than punishment ones. I wasn't
out about this in my own life so all I had were my fantasies and some reading
material - but as I was hiding it, I couldn't read everything I wanted to read
in case my Kindle fell into the wrong hands. Back then, I didn't know there was
such a thing as domestic discipline and in my naïve mind, no one spanked or got
spanked for punishment or discipline, not as an adult. It just wasn't done.
The first pieces I published were with non-spanking specific publishers because I didn't know there was such a place as Blushing Books out
there or that there was something specific for spanking and spankos and not
BDSM and all that it contains. I didn’t even know spanko was a term! But throughout this time, I was honing my own interests,
finding out what I personally liked as I wrote. Have I mentioned I'm fairly
shy (unless I know you and feel good around you, then you wish I were more shy!)? Anyhow, I get embarrassed very easily and my writing reflected it at first. I
censored myself a lot and it wasn't until I started to work with a spanking
specific publisher that I truly got my hands dirty.
At some point during this, I found Cara Bristol's spanking
fiction group on Facebook. I met some authors there and read spanking specific
books rather than BDSM books and found that was what I liked, what I'd been
looking for in all the books I'd been buying that were more BDSM.
It was then and from working with my editor that the
spankings and the stories began to change. I wrote some plot ideas that were my
publisher's ideas and those were different sort of stories than what I'd
written up to that point. I remember two things specifically that made an
impact on my writing. First was when my editor told me that the number of spanks
I'd used wouldn’t be 'memorable' and that I needed to increase the punishment.
I did that and in a way, that was the first almost permission I had to get a
little harder, to peek behind that wall of self-censoring. The other thing was
when I was writing Taken by the Beast. Kayla and Elijah were going to have sex
for the first time but it ended up being in a bathtub so I didn't use a condom.
I worried about that for a while and finally e-mailed my editor to say "He
didn't use a condom. Is that ok?" I can't remember the exact response
anymore but that was when I realized that I could let myself go a little bit.
That I was writing fiction and fiction is an escape from reality.
Since then, my writing has evolved to more disciplinary and
definitely harsher spankings and punishments than when I first started, and I
feel like with every book, my imagination takes it one step further or adds
another element to the spanking scenes that make it a little more naughty. My
spanking scenes grow longer and longer and I still, after what has it been, a
little over two years? I still love writing them. When I know I have a spanking
scene to write the next morning, I'm happy. It's fun to do and I like to find what
I think are my own limits and then push them a little. For example, medical
BDSM. I never thought I'd do it. I was adamant in fact that it was 'not my
thing', but then I wrote Given to the Savage and it's kind of become my thing! A
plain old OTK spanking will never get old. You can tell that tale a hundred
times and every time, I'll listen wide eyed and likely drooling, but it's
interesting to watch what happens when I take my own censors off and just write
what feels hot to me at the moment.
Thanks Cara and Spanking Romance Reviews for hosting this discussion and thanks to
everyone for reading it. There are several other authors participating today so
make sure to drop by and read them all.
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