The Library of Spanking Fiction: Wellred Weekly
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Interview with the Author: DJ Black How did you get started writing spanking fiction? I have been writing for as long as I can remember, both for fun and professionally. Even in my teens some of my 'secret stories' were about spanking. Then three years ago I had the idea for the Russell Corner, my first completed novel and to my surprise I got it published. My blog, A Voice in the Corner, just followed on naturally from that. I have just passed the two million mark in visits, so I must be doing something right. Since then I have written over 160 short stories and one more full length novel, The Academy, originally published in part.Where do you find inspiration for your stories? That's a difficult one. The short answer is almost anywhere. If you have watched a movie or TV show and thought, there could have been a spanking there, then that's an obvious source of the muse. I have also drawn extensively from real life; that is on my own relationship experience or the anecdotes of friends. However those that know my work will realise that I also deal in everything from elves, sci-fi to wartime spy stories, so who knows where that comes from. I have worked as and I am qualified as a historian, so it's not hard to guess where my historical stories come from.When you write, do you ever model any characters after actual people? Yes, but not usually directly. For instance the recent stories Abaconti: Future Imperfect and Mischief and the Minx both lean upon actual events from a school attended by a female friend of mine.Do you have a favourite book or story that you've written? A favourite genre? That's a hard question. The truth is I am rarely happy with what I have written so I am always looking forward. The Academy, as imperfect as it is, wrote itself and seems to meet the point where reader popularity and my own satisfaction come together. However, the truth is that the easier a story is to write the more it stands up in my own eyes months and years later.As for genre, I am lucky to have spanking in my real life so in writing I prefer scenarios like history or sci-fi fantasy where you can play with the boundaries of normal life; although I do have a penchant for intense domestic situations. What are your views on spanking fan fiction? I have never thought about it. I have read some and, like anything else, if it is well done then it's good, if not then... well not so good. I have only attempted it once as a spoof and that was a skit on Love Soup, the badly named Another Spanking Nightmare; a curious choice on my part, as I hardly ever watched it. However as it was quite surreal and very edgy at times a spanking scene in it would have been positively tame.When writing a longer story, do you plot out the detail in advance, or make it up as you go along? There are two types of story, ones that write themselves quickly that come off the 'pen' and ones that are planned. Usually, unless I know it's going to be a long story, I start with a blank page and then halfway through plan out where it is going if it turns out longer than I had first thought. Although I have to say that often I have been thinking through a story for days beforehand and I know roughly where it is going before I start. The planning tends to be around names and timelines to keep it straight in my head.Name some stories by other spanking authors that you like, and say why. I don't read as much as I would like, spanking story-wise anyway, and I have to say that as time goes by my standard goes up. Anything by Martin Pyx (Brummett) is usually great. The Tutor's Bride is probably his best. Like him, in the early days I was also inspired by Will Henry, but I find him a little shallow these days and he is certainly dated, but that doesn't subtract from his influence on me back in the early 1990s.The stories I like first and foremost have a female spankee; men aren't spanked in my world. I like emotion and stories that explore the cause and effect and how the participants, especially the spankee feel about the situation. Also I think the ideal is a semi-consensual scenario. That is where the spankee is not coerced and can walk away but the spanking itself is a challenge for her and not necessarily immediately welcome. I hate clinical descriptions of a play scene or even worse some misogynist kidnap plot. The reason I think I like Brummett is the way his narrative is peppered with spanking references, such as having a girl wince when she sits or pausing to shiver as she picks up her hairbrush in the morning. There are a few authors in the Spanking Library that I check out, but I won't risk offence by naming them lest I omit somebody. The truth is I often find it hard to find the time to do the sifting through to find hidden gems among such an impressive collection. It's a pity there is not an Amazon-like facility 'people who read this story also liked...' That's a joke by the way, not a request; you guys do a great job as it is. Which point of view do you tend to write in? Why do you prefer it over other POV's? I once experimented with the second person, but I quickly found out why no one else ever has. Don't try at home. It is crushingly dull to write and watching paint dry must be preferable to reading it. I usually write in the third person and paragraph shift so that you get the spanker and the spankee's version, but occasionally I write in the first person and as far as I recall I always write from the sub's point of view in those cases.Why write from the subs POV given that you are a male Dom? I think because writing from a male point of view is too close to home and would give too much away, especially to certain female friends. But mainly I think it is because in my writing I want to explore what I do not or cannot have. I know what makes men tick, but why does a woman want to be spanked and submit or how does she arrive at her submission? A fascinating question for me.I was once accused online of being a woman. How else could I know what it is like, I was told. I rather took that as a compliment. DJ Black's blog can be found here. 8 comments
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