#Spanking Round Table: Evolution of Spanking Stories

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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