An ecletic array of responses proving the diversity within our minority.
My preference is to read and write stories that are essentially realistic but might prompt some to question their probability. Questioning probability has come up in responses to some of my own stories.......which I find quite amusing since 3/4s of my stories are based on real events and real people and merely recombine or alter minor details to provide a better narrative. On my own website I actually label my stories for what they are: fiction, fictionalized real event, or real event with only names and minor details changed. The other 1/4 are admittedly fairly implausible fiction that I try to make believable on the strength of the characters and their dialogue.
I live this lifestyle and I can tell you stories that you wouldn't believe that are 100% true. I have been told that the odds of a couple discovering that they share a similar kink without having met on collarme.com is implausible. Really? Shall I tell of how many kinky spank partners I've had who were recruited form a very vanilla and small pool? Perhaps I have just been lucky.. (and I feel I have been) but the fact is: this shit happens. (If your eyes are open and you let it.)
When I write I don't worry too much about the spanking scene itself. It is almost superfluous, inconsequential. And from what I've read here..........prone to dissection. ( I've personally taken spankings that certain folks here seem quite prepared to dismiss as fiction. I know of others who make me look like a wimp. Unless a person is 'out there' and seeing what goes on, I think that spanking details are probably never going to be enough or too much, or too whatever. So why not just keep it to a minimum?) What I like to write (and read) are stories where the characters discuss their feelings.
I'll confess my biggest weakness: hearing a real Top (in my case I prefer female) talk about how they rationalize, justify, explain, exploit, etc. spanking someone they love for an offense or just to exert dominance. I am fascinated by this. I could read blog after blog just to extract a small glistening pearl of a line or phrase that will mesmerize me for weeks or months or years. Little things. But things that ring true and speak volumes. This excites me. It is eroticism at its apex. When I read a spanking story I seek the same expositions and revelations, and frankly, given the way most spanking stories are written, I come up dry. This saddens and frustrates me. It is difficult enough to find people who not only 'get it', 'do it' and 'share it' in the real world, but my goodness....in fiction? We can have our characters say whatever words we plant in their mouths. Why do so many sow so few precious seeds when the ground is open to any planting? Tabula rasa! Think, feel, emote, ponder....then hand it to me in precious prose...or hell, I'll take basic prose. But hand it to me.
I'm not about "whack whack whack". I live whack whack whack, I don't need a story for a fix. What I love is reality made wonderful. Dominance justifying itself. Submission dealing with itself. Taking a spanking as an adult is not easy. It may be desirable, but if the spanker is a dominant who revels in their authority, it won't be easy. So why do it? Why spank? Why submit to one? This is great stuff. The answers are often similar...... and sometimes rather diverse. But that's what I want to read.
Spanking is a wonderful little kink. It encompasses many things and in the real world, it requires even more soul-baring than the mere bottom-baring of a trapped victim in a Victorian setting, school setting...or any othe such setting where the victim is essentially a powerless captive. Many years ago in "S/M The Last Taboo" the Greenes included some random fiction at the end of their rather interesting, daring, but painfully bad book. There was a short play entitled "Who/Whom" which was intended to be included in Broadway's infamous "O Calcutta" but rarely was performed. The play is an S/M tour de force highlighting not only "who" and "whom" but the willingness or noncomplicity of classic S/M victims. The play's point was that the captive was not nearly as interesting as the victim with the ability to bow out...but who chooses to remain. I wholeheartedly concur.
So.....give me that on a sheet of paper (or computer screen) and I'm yours. I'll be your biggest fan. I may even compose a poorly written Ode in your honor. And while you expose your victim's need to be a victim, let your Top reveal their thinking in a believable way and I may erect a statue in addition to the Ode.
That said, I should add that among my "Favorites" is "Owl"....a truly wonderful piece that is purely supernatural and otherworldly. Not realistic at all. It is just beautifully written. I recently read another story in the contest which was also female submissive (not my thing) but was wonderful. It was deeply personal...which made it believable and erotic and real. I loved it.
So, bottom line? I want to read fiction, fantasy, or whatever....as long as the author exposes something precious. And to find precious you have to dig deep and then be brave enough to put what you discover on display.. The whack whack whack is just the tinny, empty noise of the shovel........... the real treasure is what's underneath. |