The Discreet Charm of Crowbarring

In another thread, opb introduced the notion of crowbarring, i.e., forcing a spanking into a storyline that didn’t originally include one. He also mentioned what we might call reverse crowbarring, which is removing a spanking from a story, perhaps in order to use it in a non-spanking context. I’ll stick to the first phenomenon here.

There are different levels of crowbarring. The most drastic one is when the story is more or less finished, and you decide to rewrite it to include a spanking. I don’t think this happens very often (but if you are sufficiently famous, somebody else may write a "lost chapter" for you that includes the spanking that is - at least to a spanko - obviously missing from the original story). It’s probably more common to come up with the inspiration for a story, only to realize that it doesn’t in a natural way include a spanking. This happens to me all the time; my stories are usually inspired by childhood memories, by people I meet or places I have been, by incidents I have observed or things I have experienced, etc. I once got trapped in a rainstorm on Hawaii that was so ridiculously forceful that is seemed worth writing about, but how do you turn that into a spanking story? The hardest situation for me is when I’ve found a (usually) female character that I would really want to write about, but who absolutely refuses to get spanked, at least in a way that seems psychologically plausible. It’s then the struggle begins…

Does this seem familiar, anyone?

There is the next Spanking Story Challenge! Think about what the situation and location do to the reason for the spanking--fair or unfair, consensual or non-consensual, judicial, tribal, spiritual, magical, sexual, etc.

The author's challenge is to make it psychologically and dramatically plausible, and you've shown your prowess to do so in the past.

If you mean the last bit, then no - everyone's spankable in my world! As to the rest, I have only ever written spanking fiction, so I'm fixed into this genre (if that's what it is). I get inspiration from similar sources as you, Alef, and I enjoy exploring different themes and settings, but I can't set out on a story without knowing where the spanking's going to fit, even if it is sometimes a bit extraneous (i.e. "a story with a spanking"). I wish I could write stuff without spankings, but I never seem to find the time

I don't think that has ever happened to me. My stories mostly start with I reading a story, see a picture, read an article or similar and that visuals a particular scene for a spanking with some reason leading up to it. Then a try to weave the plot around it to get some build-up. Sometimes I can't think of a reasonable background or a reason to involve it and then I just go for the spanking scene as the full story.

Gloup/glagla

Why not have her refusal be the basis of the plot and in the story have her reveal a time when she was spanked and hated it? You keep true to the character, still get a spanking description in, AND deal with a very real topic that we've all encountered, which is hardly ever dealt with and would be very refreshing for a change......an unwilling person of interest. Or, more simply, if she won't be spanked just have her do the spanking. Easy-Peasey LOL

Just an interesting side game inspired by this post. Which well known works of mainstream fiction would accommodate a spanking quite easily?
Pretty much all of Jane Austen. Likewise Ian Fleming, but there are certainly a lot less obvious choices out there. I don’t think Tommy spanking Tuppence would have been out of place in the Agatha Christie stories.

That's actually a quite interesting idea, and I may try it, although I probably have more than my fair share of reluctant spankees already. But as it would only work for one story, it's hardly a solution in the long run. Switching genders may be a more sustainable strategy as I seem much more willing to give a male spankee a good hiding for an almost nonexistent reason...

Now there's a thought that can derail a thread. I agree with it. But I do have my favorites. I'm retired. In spite of which, like you "I never seem to find the time." That may be because I'd rather be thinking about "certain" things than writing about them.


Haven't you already done that Alef. You just changed the location and made the rain more gentle.

I write "Stories about spanking." I often find, when I'm finished, there's no spanking. I usually put the story on the shelf instead of crowbarring. I think what I need to do is plan the story. When I'm writing is not the time to indulge my fantasies. When I "think" about a spanking itself, it's emotional and visual. I'm not using words. That's something I'll have to learn.

'A rainstorm in Hawaii' - many magical traditions have rituals to control the weather, or appease the weather gods. Could a story be written where the ritual involves the 'sacrifice' of a young maiden's bottom over the altar? That way the rainstorm becomes part of the action...!

There are some magical thinkers who believe that the government controls the weather, creating hurricanes and tornados at will for the purpose of some nefarious conspiracy, though they may adjust those beliefs depending who's in power...