That first blank page

Reading down this page, it strikes me how different we all are in our approach and inspirations when it comes to writing. I, like ChardT, can have what I think is a great idea for the kernel of a story, but struggle in getting the whole thing started in a way that I hope will grab the attention of my readers. Once into a story, I find that my characters often take over and the whole thing flows more easily.

Please see my previous post.

I would like the plot of the story to be fairly well mapped out in my mind before I sit down at the keyboard, and the few stories I've written have come to me fairly easily typically as a result of the accumulation of past fantasies. The problem for me now involves coming up with new ideas given that I've depleted my store of fantasies. The process of writing for me is neither easy nor difficult yet a requirement must be satisfied: If I do not experience a physiological effect when writing a spanking story, I assume my readers will not either and I've failed at my mission. A story I'm not pleased with may sit for a long time before I submit it sometimes because I want it to rest and I'll come back and take a fresh look another time. The passage of time will often provide me with the equivalent of a "second set of eyes" to find the problem that I didn't see in the first place.

I finally got this one done. It's actually the shortest spanking story I've written, but I'm fairly pleased with how it turned out. It's a cute little vignette from my Kelly-Ann canon. I posted it a few days ago but I'm not sure when it will appear on the site. It was tough getting started. I was so of a mind to procrastinate that I even cleaned the cat litter box!

I'm another in the 'easy to get started, tough to finish' school. I've got at least half a dozen stories with the first 1,000 words or more written, but there often seems to come a point where they seize up on me and to get them to go any further is like pushing a car uphill. So then I just have to leave them, knowing that sooner or later I'll come back to them and with any luck they'll start flowing again.

Just now and then, though, a story will come to me fully formed and need no more than the time required to type it out. Usually when it's based around some outlandish concept like my dialogue-only effort, 'The Family Bizarre'.

I like to start with an idea of how the story ends, and ideally some moments in the action plotted out in my head - possibly scraps of dialogue or descriptive phrases. Then it's a matter of 'joining the dots' - fitting in the bits and pieces in some sort of logical order with a view to reaching the pre-determined end point. Of course, along the way, bits get dropped, changed or expanded, and even the ending may change if I think of something better, or if the story takes a different direction than I first thought.

The part I find most difficult to write is the actual spanking itself - the build-up and circumstances can vary widely, but when it comes to the 'action scene' I'm still stuck with trying to find a reasonably original way to say 'Whack! - Ouch!, new adjectives to describe a reddened bottom or a spankee's reactions, and so forth...

Anyone got any tips on this...?

Hi myrkassi

My tip would be, don't beat yourself up over finding new adjectives because the old ones are the best.

When all is said and done, the words that turn me on are spanking, bare and bottom! You can't improve on perfection!



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I agree. The spanking is the most difficult scene to write (and sometimes to read). There are certain tired, over-used phrases that make me roll my eyes every time I see them even though I am sure I have used them myself in the past. I would never say "Whack! - Ouch!" but I don't think there is a truly original way to say it. Every time I come up with something that seems unusual to me, I happen across it in one or more other stories. The best phrases come to me when I am not concentrating on it, just daydreaming or even in my sleep. So, my tip would be to relax and just let the feelings play through your mind.

By the time I put my fingers to the keyboard, most of the story is already written in my head and its just a matter of putting it down on paper, so to speak. I don't mean word for word it's been written, that only comes as the letters pour from my fingers, but most of the time the basics, the beginning, how and where it's going to go from there, and usually the end is known to me before I begin.

I can sometimes do that - my latest (not up yet - I just got word from Flopsy while I was writing this that it's in the loading queue) 'For the Honour of the School' was written in my head during a weekend away, and written down once I got back to my keyboard.

One thing I've learned is not to note ideas down for later - once they're written down they seem to go out of my head, but if I don't write them down and therefore fix them in one form they keep fermenting away and can eventually turn into a story...