This is a wonderful topic. I haven't been to the Library for some time, but this is a subject that has bedevilled me, so I'll venture a comment.
Writing a story for me can involve a state of sustained "low-level" arousal that can, if I let it, last for days as I return to the story and rewrite scenes to come closer through setting (season. time period etc), the appearance and actions of characters, characters' feelings and sensations to whatever that tantalizing feeling inside me is.
It's really all about chasing that deliciously tantalizing feeling/sensation. When I used to write non-spanking fiction I didn't have that persistence in terms of attention and fascination to help me overcome every obstacle, constantly refine scenes, bring characters into sharper focus. Of course, sometimes that obsessiveness leads to a loss of the original freshness of the story I first put down as it changes and changes....
So for me the process of writing a spanking story is a little bit obsessive.... Maybe this is one reason my stories or fantasies often build slowly toward severe spankings, the spanking of a lifetime, to use the cliche; the mounting dread is part of the desire. I've found that arousal can, as was said, lead to some overwriting, but it also focuses the attention and allows a scene to sharpen over time. It may also be that certain periods of more intense arousal do occur during the writing.
Because of this obsessive aspect, I don't let myself write stories very often, and have often thought that it would be instructive to take a lighter (less aroused?) approach to the whole matter of subject and process. A more playful, cerebral one. But maybe spanking for me is too tied up with psychology to allow that to happen.
I also think that many people who have had more opportunity to spank or be spanked in real adult life may be able to take that less intense approach I speak of. The whole intensity of the fantasy world probably gets diluted by a very different actuality. Or so I've heard.
In the meantime I am not writing longer stories, though I'd love to. When the urge rises up, I write little vignettes or blurbs for a Tumblr blog (called Gathering Dusk), after having deleted the previous four or five such blogs over the years as that process too became time-consuming. In any case, thanks for bringing up this topic! |