The Adventures of Bridget Gallagher

theo54

I've read your books here and on Amazon and I LOVE them. You are among a handful of writers that writes so well that it motivates me to move on from short stories, stop messing around and write a true spanking novel with effort put into the prose, plot and characters.

That said, the Bridget Gallagher story is different from those. Some of it is my personal taste, but the other part might show why readers drop off in a serialized format. Personally, I like the discipline and punishment aspect of spanking. I don't mind if there is some enjoyment mixed in but when it moves from discipline to consensual impact play, some of the elemental storytelling dynamics change.

In a story about punishment, there are built in power dynamics and even more importantly, a structure of built in conflict. The conflict of a spanking story in its most basic form almost always provides a level of dread and anticipation. There might even be stakes if there is a chance for the protagonist to get a lighter punishment or escape it entirely.

This is a spanking story board, so we know that 99.99% of the time, they're going to get spanked at the highest severity sold by the author. Still, that makes it a page turner. In a story where a character is coming to grips with their kink, like in BG, that particular style of conflict is pushed out. So is that anticipation, which is part of what makes people read. The old radio trick of ending every episode with a cliffhanger is still used in TV and comic books today because it works.

This is why some shows are much better to binge than to see each episode at once. The story might be equally as good, but there are less hills and valleys of anticipation and expectation. Shows that lean towards character study are usually better as a whole series where the viewer can watch at their own pace.

I'm not sure if this is why your latest is seeing such a drop off in views but I think it may be a factor. I know that serials tend to lose views as they go on no matter how good they are, but I wonder if that effect is exacerbated in consensual stories.

Thank you, Patron, for your very kind and generous comments.

I am trying to write something different with BG, about how a young person develops our kink, comes to terms with it, and explores it in their late teens/early adulthood. I’ve wanted to write something like it for a long time, that’s psychologically realistic at least.

Bridget’s adventures, of course, are far from being run of the mill, but in this series I’m trying to avoid the cartoonish quality that spanking fiction can have, and I definitely include mine in this.

I definitely haven’t given upon the power dynamic you describe so well, and I’ve some ‘cartoon’ ideas for the future, but all the CP in my adult life has been consensual, although sometimes within apparently disciplinary set ups, and BG is an attempt to write something that’s at least on nodding terms with reality!

I’ve stopped writing series, mainly because I lose interest so I’m pretty sure the readers do too. Honourable exception is Bashful Bob’s Community Sorority series. World class and he knew when to wrap it up. Master Storyteller

PS the author search isn’t finding theo54 so I can’t check out the story.

theo54 is his site name, henry, but his author name is Theo Jones.

If you type theo54 into the members list (accessible via the Info button once logged into the site) you'll see his submissions are authored by Theo Jones, which you can then use in the author search field, or go direct to his author page.