Inspiration

(Back when I was writing) my inspirarion, as Diana Miller said, could come from anywhere - a random person I would meet, something someone would say, a specific location, some other story i'd read, an object, a character from a book or movie, a dream, a particular situation or occurrence - most (but not all) having nothing to do with spanking. Often I'd mash several of them together, add a spanking, and - voila! - I'd have a story. Even today, 10, 20 or 25 years, I could go through pretty much any one of my stories and tell you where the elements of the story came from. The spankings themselves are pure fantasy; spankings generally just don't happen in real life the way they happen in stories (at least not in MY stories), but by weaving them into "real" things, I could give them a feeling of realism.

For the most part, my stories come from wanting to explore an aspect of relationship dynamics. Spanking is great, but the fascinating part for me is how we get there. I don't usually do parental stuff, so I'm thinking mostly of people who have equal stature, or a role reversal scenario. A lot of it stems from my experience, but also the curiosity that those experiences have created.

I've been lucky enough to deliver and witness a lot of spankings outside of the traditional spanko dynamics. Meaning not at a party, not sexual, and not parental discipline. There are so many things going on to allow this to happen and those things are usually what I'm exploring in my stories.

I think for spankos, spanking is usually spanking, but for "vanilla" people, spanking is a feature of some other aspect of relationships. So if asked directly about being smacked on the bottom, they might be indifferent, but in the context of how it happens, they are very much for it. No matter what story I write, this is what I'm exploring.

Lately, I've been inspired by some of the great writers here and in the spanking novels. Pet Jeffrey, Norland Hughes and Katie Pie in particular are writing at a level that makes me want to step it up and write a real story with spanking in it, rather than a spanking story.

Thanks Patron, that’s nice to hear.

Like Njrick and others have said I find inspiration from all over. There are bits of my own life, altered and extended because the spankings are usually fictional. For example there’s one on here which was inspired by getting drenched on the way to work one day and being pushed to borrow some clothes while mine were drying. The rest of the story is total fiction. Sometimes I hear things or read something and think would make a plausible setting for a spanking.
I find the actual spanking the hardest bit to write. It’s difficult not to be repetitive. So I sometimes have a flick back through favourite writers on here and look at the descriptors they used.

@Njrick I wish you hadn't stopped writing. I don't know why you stopped and because this might be very personal (and none of my business really) I won't ask what the reason is. I just hope something will happen that will make you want to write more stories again.

@KatiePie I'm really curious about the inspiration for the story about the knitting club, if I may ask

DianaMiller

I quite like knitting, and years ago I had a boyfriend who was a vicar’s son and I enjoyed his tales of difficult old women who ran things in the parish and disliked newcomers.

That's a great example of mashing different sources of inspiration together to create an original setting and a brilliant main character. Than you for sharing, KatiePie.

@KatiePie & @DianaMiller
One of my answers to DM's question is essentially what I was going to reply to KP's earlier comment: spankings ARE the hardest part to write, and make "fresh," and I'd found myself getting repetitive (same descriptions, similar dialogue). If I can't write something fresh, it's hard to write at all. I have a dozen or so other story concepts (characters, or scenarios) bouncing around my head, but I keep asking myself, "what will really make this one different from what I've already written?" - especially when it comes down to what a spanking story (or a "story with a spanking") must contain. No, I havent tried every type of spanking, but every type that "floats my boat" I seem to have written many times already. I'm not going ruin a perfectly good story with a "stale" spanking (from my perspective, no matter what anyone else might think).

My other answer to Katie is that somehow or other I seem to have lost the time to write die to things going on in my life (mostly GOOD things, thank goodness.

My writing has "gone on hiatus" before, essentially for ten years, before it returned, after which I wrote most of what I consider my best work. So I could make a return some day, perhaps when I retire and suddenly have a lot more time.

Of course, if I start writing again, I'll find that I can finally write NON-spanking stories, something I've always wanted to do, but couldn't . A spanking in a story always gave me something to aim for in developing a plot. Without it, I was always lost.

njrick This is a great topic. Readers obviously love spankings and so do we, but it's very hard not to retrace your footsteps when it comes to description. In this, I look to DJ Black. The real variation is not finding different ways to say "reddened their bottom." It's to emphasize how one character is giving it vs. how the other is taking it. That dance and journey through the spectrum of intimacy, punishment, discipline, acceptance, defiance, embarrassment and everything else is what differentiates them and gives room for just that small bit of uniqueness in approach.

Although I only consider myself semi-retired, I recognize many of my own thoughts and feelings in what Rick is saying. I never had very much time for writing, and to be sure I spent my efforts on something worthwhile (in one sense or another), I early on decided not to repeat myself. In practice, this meant that in every story I should try to do something I hadn't done before, either literary or spankingwise. I haven't quite managed to keep my promise, and by now it is more of an obstacle than a challenge.

I also find writing spanking scenes a real chore. I suppose it is a bit like sex scenes; extremely exciting to experience, but not very interesting to describe. I must admit that I am often quite bored by reading other people's spanking scenes and usually prefer just a brief indication of what is happening, but I realize that this is not a sentiment I share with everybody. For me personally, most of the interest is in the build-up anyway.

Like Rick I would love to write non-spanking stories. Many of my stories have a non-spanking inspiration, and I often have to struggle hard to force a spanking into them, but on the other hand the spanking gives them a direction that might otherwise be hard to find. Also, I think I may have something to say about spanking that not everybody else has, and I'm not sure the same can be said for the other parts of existence.

Those are some fair points, Njrick and Alef.

I've only started writing spanking stories last year (if I don't count the lone story I wrote almost ten years ago and which I lost in a computer crash) but before that I've tried to write regular fiction for years and always ended up deleting a bunch of pages that were getting nowhere. Actually finishing the short spanking stories I've written so far and sharing them with others is already a big victory in itself for me. The spanking part does make it a lot easier to get a plot going!