Writing outside your genre

Since pigs are showing up in this conversation, I've put together a few fractured fairy tales lately (ex. Sleeping Beauty) and tried to do the Three Little Pigs but I didn't like the end result so you'll all be spared that particular porcine story.

Like several others have mentioned, I'm not a huge caning fan although I've certainly written a few. To me it's more fun trying to write using something unusual like a gardening glove or a boot-horn as an implement. I've got a story I'm working on right now where a guy struggles to build a paddle to surprise his girlfriend with. So, given my druthers, I'd rather see about anything other than a cane in use.

As far as genres go, I struggle trying to write F/M stories, although as our Head Librarian mentioned, the F/M Challenge is a good way to force yourself to create. The one genre I've never tried to write is a M/M story (I don't consider Dad beating a college age son as meeting that definition); I guess I need to try eventually but I'm just not confident I can make it seem realistic enough.

I haven't either. I could do that most easily in a judicial scene, I think. (Or else, as you suggest, when the spanking is only nominally an adult.) But I don't ever think I "need" to write a certain orientation or scenario. I just write what comes to mind. I try to have a decent variety so I don't bore myself to death, but otherwise, whatever it is, it is.

I occasionally try to write something out of the normal for me as an exercise in writing: just as it takes more skill to make excellent food without butter, it takes more skill to write good stories that don't push one's own buttons. Interestingly, if I'm able to get my head in the right space to write about something, I sometimes find it ends up pushing my buttons, which suggests some curious and potentially disturbing things about my own malleability.

In my real life I write, a lot, in many styles/fora. So I choose to find it a good exercise to pick a scenario that normally I wouldn't imagine, and try to write it well. This applies in OpEds, by the way; one exercise that everyone should try is to write the most sincere, compelling OpEd you can for a position you despise. You almost certainly won't change your mind, but you'll get better at arguing your own position if you can empathize with the positions of others.

After penning about 715K words of spanking fiction over 7 years, I recently promised a newly-established and slightly worried Mrs TEM that I would write some completely non-spankified fiction before embarking on anything new spankity-wise.

It's a wrench, and it's not going well (i.e. at all).

As for those of you who hate/can't read "British" schoolgirl caning stories... I have the deepest sympathy for your loss.

Okay, back to porcine percularities for a moment. Ever seen a pig with three eyes? Piiig.

Oh man, are bad jokes a spankable offense around here?

As a new author here, so far I tend to write what I know, which is American school discipline. I also have to admit that British schoolgirl caning stories aren't my favorite genre, for me to enjoy them they have to be well written, have to be plausible and not harsh just for the sake of being harsh. Though I do have to say, I've enjoyed Jacqueline Scott's ongoing series about the Collinwood Girls School immensely, adn though it's set in America, the Fenton School series by tfs. Both of them have elements I love, such as staff that genuinely care for the students, where doing right by the students is paramount. The fact there is a love story or two with tasteful sex in there helps.

As I progress as an author, I may experiment with other genres, I can see writing M/F stories, perhaps M/f, or M/m in a school or home setting. I think I would have serious trouble trying to write F/M and make it plausible.

Mainly, I just want to write things others enjoy reading. I mean, for me, the main goal is to entertain others.

I knew there was something missing in my oeuvre - a story about a pig!

Better get on the zeitgeist.

Hmm, I'm pretty sure I don't have any stories, published or in progress, or even imagined, that feature pigs in any significant way....

Yesterday, someone started telling me a story about the pig she was babysitting-- and all about its personality. Internally, I kept thinking about this thread and had to work hard not to laugh.