Gibbering Wreck!

and OMG! you people! I nearly wet myself reading some of this.
On the serious side, any mention of spank, smack, whap, thwack, or any other word you can think of when writing a spank scene drives me up the wall, across the ceiling and down the other side, to be repeated endlessly until Adam pulls me away.

I have always felt it was the sign of a moronic mind and no imagination and if I had gotten that far it had to be because I was reading Nate and he's a mate and I feel obligated, HUMPH!

I am now going for a cuppa and a calm down.

There is a period of time between consecutive smacks, no matter how brief.

And in that moment, much happens. There is a change in emotion, in color, in intensity. There are reactions on both sides. Thoughts, memories, reactions may be invoked. There may be something outside of the immediate vicinity that adds color, meaning, explanation.

Our duty as authors is to take one or more of these events to make the moment more real, more understandable or more enjoyable for our readers.

Should, for whatever reason, we decide not to give some filler between each slap, then there is no reason to deliver a series of them as an unbroken sequence of identical nouns.

Therefore, if for the purposes of a specific narrative, you need to simply say that, say, six strokes were delivered, then that is all you should say. With suitable adjective embellishment - something along the lines of "with full force, he unleashed six dreadful cuts of the cane to her unprotected bottom." Or similar, depending on style and situation.

Oh! This thread wasn't about sports! It was about SMACKS, SMACKS, SMACKS, SMACKS, SMACKS, SMACKS !!!!

I agree with guyde.

Yes I agree with anitalynn. Please in future stick to the subject!! And what ever you do.......don't mention the Red Devils!

OK.....no Devils. How about Wings, the NHL variety, from Detroit.

Oh! And sticking to the subject no.....WHACKS, WHACKS, WHACKS, WHACKS, WHACKS, WHACKS, WHACKS, WHACKS, WHACKS, WHACKS either!

Now how come you had to go and describe the highlight of a hockey game?

You caught me! I didn't think anyone would notice

The great Marlowe knows all, sees all.

Isn´t spanking really a sport (it is not merely *punishment*, is it?)? Or at least spanking is a form of recreation - and that is close enough, isn´t it?

If spanking's a sport, galt54, it's closer to tennis than all those violent field sports people have been on about. Singles, doubles, mixed doubles, you can handle that. I tremble to think what Linda would go through if she really took up rugby: the minimum number of participants is seven a side. Could get rough.

Back to what flopsybunny was talking about: all those repeated SPANKs. Capitals never a good idea, equivalent to shouting in the vicarage. How about a few musical terms? Sculacciata staccata, for example, allegro ma non troppo, con gusto, aufgeregt, tenuto, glissando, the possibilities are endless.

For some reason, I see flopsybunny's own spankings as somewhere between saltando and pizzicato. Certainly giusto and gemendo.