Pre-plugs

I thought about joining the shameless self-pluggers, and may still, but what really interested me was plugging for a story I hadn't finished. Some people may write a story in one burst of creativity, but I nearly always write a bit, think a bit, write a bit. I would be interested in sharing some ideas I was still working on: occasionally someone might suggest something I liked.

Right now I'm working on a story called "Silver, Blaise". It started by taking the undercover cop girl situation and inventing new characters. This situation, which I've used once before as Sally West's last outing, has a lot of potential because the cop girl will submit to various things in order not to blow her cover, and there is room for amusing double-entendres and mix-ups around the difference between her assumed and real identity. I intended to make it also a detective story with extensive references to the Sherlock Holmes story "Silver Blaze" and also the James Bond story "Goldfinger". I've done that, but I found the story growing and growing and the main character (Detective Constable Aashi Bhatt) becoming more complex and more interesting to me as a character. So it'll now be a series - but because it's quite tightly plotted, I'm writing the whole thing before cutting it up into episodes.

I'd be interested to hear of other stories in preparation.

Hmmm what a good idea Mr BH

Well, I am about half-way through a rather girly story about a woman who splits with her boyfriend, loses her job and her flat all in a very short space of time. She then answers an odd sounding job ad in the classifieds and finds herself working in a factory that specialises in bespoke spanking implements... I seem to have lost my enthusiasm half way...

Not sure if it is a bad idea or whether I just need some motivation

My writing varies between writing it all in one go, or taking me ages with very little in between!

I'm sure there would be many volunteers to motivate you.

Seriously (well, even more seriously), it may be the story is fine as far as it goes but has reached the point where it becomes predictable - in which case you may need a new twist. I suggest letting it lie for a week to see if anything comes up, or even sharing it for someone else's idea.

I'm also working, by popular demand, on a sequel to "The Major", around Officer Tara Kowalski's promise to help the Major spank her rather irritatingly self-assured colleague Lucinda. But how to get Lucinda to submit? I have settled on an idea. However, I have mixed feelings, for, as often happens, I don't think the sequel can be as good as the original.

I think pre-plugging is a completetly acceptable idea. I already did it on the plugboard in that I "plugged" the two stories I wrote for OTKgirl (Angie) before I posted either one of them. I also intend to pre-plug (1) an upcoming story for a long-time reader/first-time writer as soon as she's ready to submit and (2) a story I'm collaborating on with a new writer. I think "plugging" is why Februs made the plugboard. You should go for it.

P.S. - I like the concept - the undercover lady cop who'll - ahem - go to great lengths not to blow her cover. I'll probably read that one!

[raising my hand] it's a tough job, but someone has to do it!


As an expert on the subject (albeit retired), I say - (pre-)Plug away! once you've pre-plugged, you pretty much have to follow through, don't you?

Yes I think that I shall do just that. I will probably open it and just finish it when the time is right!


You are, as ever, my hero

billboard
Billboard - thanks for the encouragement. This story is jokey with elements of fantasy. I might, though, use the undercover cop theme some time more seriously.

Funny coincidence; I've been considering a spy story in which a female spy is in a rather similar situation (getting spanked to protect her cover). Working title is "The Decadent West."

Stories I have in the works, either just conceptually or already part-written:


Paddling Team A fairly absurd college story, in the same spirit as Backfire. Some characters from Backfire may appear in this story as well. I have the story all figured out, but writing it is taking me a while. F/M, with one or two F/F scenes mixed in.

The Decadent West A Soviet agent in 1960's America lands herself in a very bad situation in which both her cover and her backside are at risk. The United States isn't as morally decrepit as she's been taught to believe; its much, much worse. M/F and F/F.

Problem, Officer? My belated response to barretthunter's request on my Challenge thread. A young and inexperienced city policewoman responds to a noise complaint, and ends up being the subject of a painful and humiliating mixup. M/F.

Backfire The potentially neverending misadventures of spoiled college girl April. So far, we've had M/F, F/F, and implied offscreen F/M. This is the "anything goes" type of episodic ridiculousness.

Jenni Starr: Cosmogal Speaking of ridiculousness. A retro-scifi parody serial conceptualized by a guy named "Exodus." Galactic explorers Richard Solomon and Jenni Starr teleport from planet to planet, the latter getting into all manner of dangerous situations that involve getting spanked. M/F, F/F, and X/F (robots and the like).

The Sidekick Another parody, this time of silver age superhero comics. Started as a one-shot F/M story, but I've had so many requests for a sequel that one is becoming likely. If the story goes the route that I've planned, we'll have M/F and F/M in the coming chapters.

Building Self-Esteem A not-especially-plausible story of mixed origins. Part of it came from the perverted imagination of a girl I met on another site. Another part came from my own experiences with the American mental health system. Its a pretty typical medical fetish/femdom story, but I'm thinking of trying an experiment by writing each chapter from a different perspective. F/M.

Serial Spanker There's a serial spanker on campus, and its up to a trio of freshman girls to identify and apprehend him! A parody of the teen detective genre, with at least one major twist in every chapter. The serial ends with a genre shift that opens the door for many other stories set in the same continuity. M/F.

What a good idea BH
The latest Sgt Dickerson episode in with the mods. There are firm ideas for at least half a dozen others of this rural paradise (as long as you don't mind a sore backside every now and again) which I write for light relief.
Another episode (stand-alone) of 2025 is coming along nicely, a couple of weeks.
The bane of my writing life is at long last (nearly four years) finally reaching the beginning of the end, and should be here in a few weeks!! (I've said that before but I finally think I've found a satisfactory ending.
I have one story that I think is quite pleasant, light and romantic fairly close to finishing.
After that I have promised myself a break from trying to dream up new ideas and enjoy writing nice little easy short stories.
The frustrating thing is that long stories that have to be serialised are the most satisfying thing to write as you really become involved in them and almost begin to believe in the characters. When you then look at the stats the reading figures and comments drop off dramatically after a few chapters and you wondered just why you slaved over the characters and the story-lines when it would appear the majority of readers are happier with a no-brainer short.
Still such is life -you can't please them all.

I fear you may be right. Readers seem to be most enthusiastic about items that are 1000-2500 words long and, really, are mere descriptions of spankings grafted onto some flimsy premise. That is a discouraging fact for those of us who want to tell a more involved story, albeit with perhaps less "action". One thing that continually amazes me as I look at the stats is the fact that with multipart stories---not just me---everyone, is that there is typically a 50% drop in reads between part 1 and part 2 and that ratio never changes. It drops between later chapters too but not as much. That is dismaying when the writer has structured it so that the real climactic moments come in later chapters. Lately I've tried to cram it all into just 2 parts and that seems to help, but I can't understand why someone would read for example, Three Amigos pt 1 and not want to know what happened in pt 2. So jim, you're right--you can't please everyone and it's best not to try.