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njrick
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#21 | Posted: 5 Nov 2016 17:34
TheEnglishMaster:
I find it hard doing descriptions of people's appearance. In fact, I quite often forget to!

I only do so when I think it's important to the story, or if I have written around a character so clearly in mind (physically) that I pretty much have to. Otherwise, I like letting the reader imagine what the character is like.

Burgundy:
And you authors who've written way, way more than me, I don't know how you manage to make every spanking scene unique.

That indeed is an issue, and where a story (for me) often bogs down. I don't WANT to write the same spanking scene again and again.

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#22 | Posted: 6 Nov 2016 10:44
The hardest part to write? The spanking of course. Now describing a beautiful bottom is a different thing altogether and needs to be treated with at least as much respect as the bottom itself, but making the spanking bit unique?
For this reason I will often not write the spanking at all, but concentrate only on the lead up, the internal battles within the participants and the other head-stuff, because I think it's really more important than the hand-on-bottom bit.

If one is to write a spanking then I find that it's often easiest to approach it from the spanker's POV, and to include sound as well. The swish, snick and the swishing sound of the sneaky stroke which doesn't land all are an essential part. The Owws are not really helpful, we know it hurts after all, but as an earlier commenter said, it can be helpful if there is dialogue going on during the spanking:

"So what have you got to say for yourself?"
Smack "Oww"
"Apart from Oww of course"
Smack "Oww"
"I said apart from that"
Smack "Oooh"
"Are you going to write better spankings in your stories from now on?"
Smack "Ouch! Yes, yes whatever you say"
"Lots of beautiful bottom descriptions?"
Smack "Owww! Yes"
"Lots of roseate flushes creeping majestically across creamy fields?"
Smack "Oww I will, I will!"
"Perfect orbs glowing crimson?"
Smack "Yes those as well!"
"Beautiful globes writhing sexily under the hand of an infeasibly handsome spanker?"
etc etc

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#23 | Posted: 6 Nov 2016 17:53
Imagine we all wrote bowling stories. Now on one hand every game is unique in some ways while very similar in others. There are simply not that many variations on lifting the ball, approaching the lane, and launching the ball towards the pins. Sure there are variations, but even if you watch all the different people doing all their individual styles at an alley, you will probably see more similarity than difference. (no one is using a cannon to deliver the ball, everyone is probably facing the pins when they bowl, all the balls are round, there's always 10 pins in the same formation to start each frame, etc.).

So what is an author of bowling stories to do?

Perhaps they only need to mention something pertinent or unique about the game itself? Perhaps the story can focus on the personalities of the players.....which can be presented with much more diversity than the game itself? Perhaps the back story to how the characters ended up at the alley could be interesting? Perhaps the story has a separate message or issue of its own..........told through bowling?

But then again, if readers of bowling stories just really love bowling itself, the stories can just focus on the ritual of sticking fingers into drilled holes, sauntering purposefully up the lane, and delivering the ball with the reassuring 'thud', 'roll', and echoing 'clack' of struck pins? Maybe the repetition of these details is comforting to that reader and all of those other things I mentioned as alternate possibilities would be seen as superfluous annoyances keeping that reader from 'the good part'?

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#24 | Posted: 6 Nov 2016 23:28
I once read that CP "literature" was far, far "richer" than straight, standard pornography. Indeed, I don't remember where I read this. Maybe be Janus?

Anyhow the author was basing his assertion on the premise that CP offers so many different scenarios. Just the sheer number of stories in LSF is a testament to the veracity of this premise. The number of possible scenarios approaches ... infinity!

I think some of us are just bewildered by the number of choices we are confronted with. Now contrast this with the typical romance story. Boy meets girl ... girl gets boy in pickle ... girl gets boy out of pickle ... boy gets pickle in girl ... and they live happily ever after.

Now look at what we have by comparison. We have Principals, teachers, headmasters, matrons, fathers, mothers, uncles, brothers, sisters, wardens, preachers, priests, nuns, husbands, boyfriends, girlfriends, pledge masters, sorority big sisters, butlers, cooks, masters of the manor, governesses, coaches ... well, you get the idea. The list of spankers is endless and, of course, so is the list of spankees.

With sooo many options no one could possibly write about them all AND do a decent job of it. Thus most of us seem to concentrate in our own particular favorite themes. What I have observed is that in general, people get better and better at writing in these favorite themes. Eventually, "writer's block" sets in, because they've pretty much covered it all.

That's the time to "bust out" and try some new themes. This is not easy, because we are on unfamiliar terrain. Nevertheless, we should take comfort in the fact that our "world" is so "rich" in possibilities. We are only limited by our own immaginations.

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#25 | Posted: 7 Nov 2016 03:19
I can't remember who said it, but I read somewhere once that it's restrictions and limits on what you are allowed to write, that allows creativity to flourish. "Write anything" is less likely to produce something awe-inspiring than, for example, "write a 2,000-word story which takes place 100 years ago and features a spanking."

brodiejlb
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#26 | Posted: 7 Nov 2016 08:15
Burgundy

It may have been George Perec, who challenged himself to write a novel without the letter 'E' (La Disparition translated into English as The Void) or one of the other Oulipo crowd.

I think that the Challenge brings out the best in me in terms of inspiration.

Burgundy
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#27 | Posted: 7 Nov 2016 14:09
Brodie: could very well be I think many creative people must have independently come up with that one, because I later recalled that a mathematician said it too - someone who worked with fractals.

I haven't tried a challenge yet. Maybe next time, or next after that. So far I haven't managed to force myself to write anything. It either comes to me spontaneously, or it doesn't, and I have no control over it...

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#28 | Posted: 7 Nov 2016 19:00
That's the key to the 'challenge', a suggestion of a theme and a light comes on, leading to a story - or not.
This is the same for me with any story I have written, an idea is planted or just pops into my mind and I have to respond by writing it down. I never just sit down and make a decision that I am going to produce a story, but once I begin, I have to continue until that particular thread is exhausted. It's a constant mystery to me, how a story grows and develops, but it's brilliant when it happens.

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#29 | Posted: 7 Nov 2016 20:03
Burgundy:
I haven't tried a challenge yet. Maybe next time, or next after that. So far I haven't managed to force myself to write anything. It either comes to me spontaneously, or it doesn't, and I have no control over it...

For a Challenge entry--unless its requirement is simply having an F/M spanking orientation, which I tend to write anyway--I'll try to mull over possibilities in my mind, then hope that an idea will eventually occur based on my focus upon the particular situation required.

That does seem to work out reasonably well, often an idea will rise from my subconscious due to my gentle pondering on a specific subject relative to a spanking-related story.

Consciously concentrating intently on it though, with me that doesn't seem to be very effective...

--C.K.

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#30 | Posted: 13 Nov 2016 20:39
Ahem. What's the hardest part to write? The joke just writes itself. ; )

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