The Library of Spanking Fiction: Wellred Weekly
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Interview with the Author: Phil K How did you get started writing spanking fiction?  I started writing spanking stories when I was in my mid-20s - mainly for my own amusement, with no thought of getting them published. But I was a regular reader of Janus, the classic British spanking mag (and later of its sister publications, Februs and Privilege Club) and one day, having read what I felt was a particularly clumsy story in Janus, I thought, "Hell, I could do a lot better than that!" So I wrote a story, 'Blushing Bride', sent it off to them and - rather to my amazement - it was accepted. The pay wasn't exactly generous, but that hardly mattered.The editor asked if I wanted to use a pseudonym. I thought about it for a moment and decided I couldn't be bothered. So what if people found out? FREELANCE MOVIE CRIT LIKES TO SPANK GIRLS - that wasn't exactly going to make headlines in the gutter press. After all, there were far worse or weirder things someone could like doing than spanking female bottoms. And anyway, anyone who unearthed my secret would presumably have been reading the publication - so they could hardly claim to be holier than thou... I carried on writing for Janus and its sister mags - and even occasionally figuring in their photoshoots. And around that time I came across an American print mag, Stand Corrected, being published in LA by an outfit called Shadow Lane. The writing was of an overall higher standard than that in Janus. I contacted the editor, Eve Howard, to see if she'd like a story from me. She would - especially since we soon discovered a shared passion for English literature. So I sent her a story about a Shakespearian actress getting spanked, 'Shrewd Treatment'. She liked it, and that was the first of several of my stories and articles for Stand Corrected - including a two-parter on 'Spanking in Literature'. I also sent Eve the first of my literary pastiches: Jane Austen's 'Emma - the Spanking Version'.  Since then I've also had stories posted in several spanking sites; not least, of course, the wonderful Library of Spanking Fiction. And three years ago Nexus, the erotica subsidiary of Virgin Books, published a paperback collection of my stories under the overall title of 'Blushing at Both Ends'. In it I collected several of the stories I'd written for Janus, Stand Corrected, etc, plus a few more - 18 stories in all. It's still selling pretty well; welcome royalty cheques trickle in now and again.Where do you find inspiration for your stories? My own overheated imagination, mostly. Now and again I'll come across a situation in a book or a movie that just seems to cry out for a spanking to ensue, so I might use that as a startpoint. Sometimes I'll stick closely to the original, even to the point of aping its style, and when that happens it becomes one of the pastiches I love writing; so far, besides Jane Austen, I've kinkified Charlotte Bronte, Oscar Wilde, Dickens, Aldous Huxley, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Lewis Carroll, Cole Porter and quite a few others. But otherwise I'll often stray a long way from the original, to the point where it's no longer recognisable.Otherwise the inspiration for a story might be a real-life situation; once, staying in a hotel in Vienna, I glimpsed a pretty chambermaid with a saucy smile, and mused how delicious it would be to invite her to my room for a good long spanking session. That gave rise to my story 'Room Service'. Or it could be just a phrase; hearing an accountant use the professional term 'corrective measures' was enough to spark off the story with that title. Mostly, though, the stories emanate from the depraved depths of my own mind. The problem isn't coming up with ideas; it's finding the time to write them. When you write, do you ever model any characters after actual people? Now and then, but not often. In two of my stories - 'Blushing Bride' and 'She's No Angel' - the main female characters are based on ex-girlfriends. But mostly the characters are made up, though of course like most writers I'll borrow traits from people I know.Do you have a favourite book or story that you've written? A favourite genre? No favourite genre, I think, unless 'pastiche' is a genre. Of all my stories to date, perhaps my favourites are 'Academic Discipline' - partly because it draws on my own years at Oxford, which I loved - and 'The Pirate's Bride'. In the latter I think I got the detail and the period dialogue pretty well, besides paying homage to all those classic Hollywood swashbucklers where Errol Flynn should surely have put Olivia de Havilland across his knee - but alas never did. I'm quite pleased with 'First Date', too - there's a gentleness and sweetness about it that I like.What are your views on spanking fan fiction? An interesting idea in principle, though most of the examples of it that I've read have been fairly inept. And it's not something I've ever yet felt a desire to write - though who knows...?When writing a longer story, do you plot out the detail in advance, or make it up as you go along? I usually have a broad idea where it's going to go, but the detail emerges as I write it. It's quite fun surprising myself with what comes up.Can you name some stories by other spanking authors that you like, and say why I very much enjoy Grace Brackenridge's stories - especially those highly un-PC ones where a pre-teen or early-teen girl inveigles a stepfather, uncle or similar father-figure into giving her the spankings that she craves. Ruegirl's stories I love, in particular the humorous ones - she writes such superbly funny dialogue. But there are so many authors I like - Rollin, Chard T, Katie B, John Benson - too many to list, really. Which POV do you tend to write in? Why do you prefer it over other POV's?? Given my own tastes, I write almost exclusively M/F stories, though I'm working on my first F/F story right now. F/M and M/M stories do nothing for me, so I'd never write them. I find the story itself more or less decides whether it needs to be written in the first or third person, and each has its advantages: first-person can be more vivid, but third-person allows me to move around and describe what's happening from the POV of both spanker and spankee. I recently wrote my first story with a female first-person narrator ('Adele's Comeuppance'), and women who've read it have been kind enough to say it reads convincingly. 12 comments
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