What is your motivation to write

I set almost all of my stories in times and places of my life which I have enjoyed, so plenty of girls boarding schools, some university, some office. I like to get back to those places - especially school - and add a spanking element.

I write because I genuinely enjoy it, and to try to recreate a sense of place. In most of my stories I tend to have quite a subversive edge, so frequently we have undeserved punishments, or an authority figure punished. I try to do humour, too, because it makes me laugh!

Whilst I don't write for comments, I love them because it shows that people have invested in my story. Frequently, too, people will spot a side of a character of mine that I hadn't even noticed consciously myself.

I'm a child of the LSF; born and bred here; inspired by the freedom, the friendliness. the generous feedback.

My first motivation to write was to turn my favourite fantasies - CP at girls' boarding-schools - into fiction, enlivening my fantasy life in the process. Getting encouraging comments (I joined in 2010 just as the comment-rate was rising) motivated me even more, and then the sheer satisfaction of being creative took over and the writing became as much about crafting interesting fiction as about detailing exciting spankings.


The more I mined my imagination for fresh stories, the deeper I dug into my sub-conscious (though I didn't realise it at the time). All the characters we create are, in a sense, ourselves, and I too have had commenters (especially the inestimably wise Mati) point out recurring patterns in my characters that I hadn't noticed, and which made me reflect on who I am.

For some time now, I've been too busy, or too distracted, to write, but I do miss it and will return to it.

Please do that TEM.

I would like to second that! I noticed you hadn't been writing much lately. Maybe another strict girls boarding school story.

And I will third it!

My motivation used to be a need to express my ideas in fiction. Then it was to grow as a writer. Now it has morphed into a business. And that is much harder.

I have yet to publish here. The process of writing my stories span decades in writing, fussing unnecessarily over details and how to present them. I may yet publish here, but if so; don't expect many if any.

As to my motivations, I have many layers. Most center around an utter compulsion to write and express ideas. These may be derived from the lack of a kinky personal life, a way of acting out in words what I'm lacking or incapable of doing in my personal life. Most of my stories, but not all, are usually the product of fever dreams. Not that which derives from a medical condition, but just a "normal" dream, that causes me to feel compelled to write out the dream, in a feverish fervor (thus fever dream). Writing it out, makes me feel better, but only if I feel I've done a satisfactory job of it.

Sometimes it's just a novel idea that blooms in my mind. A seed idea or concept that is incomplete and simplistic, so I shift it to the back burner of my mind. Later on, another idea or two will present itself that works with the seed. I mentally add to the initial idea, again and again, until I feel I have enough to develop into a full grown story.

Rarely do I see someone who inspires me to symbolize them in fiction. While I have written a handful of these types of stories, I normally keep them under wraps as I don't like such stories inspired by real people to be viewed by the public at large.

While my stories normally have a sort of "happily ever after" ending, it is usually a catharsis of events that the character goes through in their life development, thus, in a way, you might say one of the motivations for me, is a form of self-catharsis by writing them. So, the "happily ever after" event, is sometimes secondary to the journey of catharsis itself.

I have been suffering from "writer's block" for sometime and it was a relief when a flash of inspiration came to me recently. Strangely, once I started writing, the ideas just kept coming and the words began to flow.
The story has been submitted so watch this space.
As for motivation, I think there is nothing more encouraging than seeing the number of views on my author page. I know that there are "lies, damned lies and statistics" and I am no Master of Mathematics but using the figures on that page, I recently worked out that for every four words I write somebody reads my stories. If that's not motivating then I don't know what is.

W. Somerset Maugham claimed that he wrote to free himself from the demons that haunted him. That is, by commiting his demons to paper, he was able to forget about them and was finally free of them.

Perhaps that is indicative of his tortured soul.

In any case, it doesn't work for me. My "demons" persist. Indeed, I enjoy revisiting my works. Perhaps that is because I have no real desire to purge them?

I think WSM is correct, but like you Tiredny it is not so much to exorcise the demons as to give them free rein.