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Wellred Weekly
Volume 1, Number 5 : February 7, 2012
 
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Interview with the Author: Rollin
by Rollin

How did you get started writing spanking fiction?
I used to be a consumer of spanking fiction, not a writer. I mined the old usenet groups, the Yahoo groups, Laura's Spanking Corner -- all those sites. Before that I had collected fiction from the '60's and '70's and the Victorian era classics. The problem was, I was not seeing the type of stories that I wanted to read. There was a pronounced lack of originality - it seemed like the same stories were being written over and over again.

So, in about 1999, I decided to write my own. At first, I started doing emulations of the style I was familiar with from the '60's, the novels written by Paul Little and Will Henry. So my first stories were things like The Health Club and A Very Nice Living Arrangement -- all over-the-top action. Then I decided that I wanted more original plots and better characterization. In some of the old adult novels there had actually been plots and interesting characters. The best example I can think of was a book written by someone called Frank Doyle entitled Passions of a Satyr. It was really, very good. So I incorporated some of these ideas in my own writing and the result was longer more involved works like A Very Bright Girl and Fox and Hounds.

As time went on I became even more ambitious and wrote works like The Mills Governess and finally my novel, Atonement which I felt at the time was the best thing I'd ever written. This went on for several years, until about 2004. Then I got very busy and stopped writing. Also there was no real forum where readers could provide useful feedback. I had no idea if people liked what I wrote or not. Then LSF came along in 2009 and I parked my portfolio here thinking that was it, but then in 2010 I started up again. I tried my hand with different genre's, styles, tone - just about any permutation you can think of. The result has been pretty encouraging.

Where do you find inspiration for your stories?
Stylistically, I'm a mimic. I consume huge amounts of fiction (also non-fiction) and I tend to pick up techniques from my favorite authors. Elmore Leonard for dialog, Lee Child for plot and exposition. For example Atonement was inspired by the Kenzie-Gennaro novels of Dennis Lehane. I also look at TV and movies and think "you could insert a spanking scene right there and it would fit".

The best example I can think of is Flash Gordon and the Menace from Mongo. I had just watched the old serial and thought how easy it would be to adapt that into a serial that had lots of spanking scenes in it. Falls Creek Women's Prison as another example, is a women-in-prison flick, only with spanking grafted in. Other times ideas just come to me from life experience, snippets of stories, items in the news. A Very Bright Girl was based on an actual incident in the news some years ago. I see something interesting and ask myself, ok what if...? I think it's the art of asking, what if? The last source is my own real life experiences. Several stories are taken from incidents, places, or settings from my life -- Blues for Alice for example, is a pastiche of various real and imagined experiences. So is A Hot Night in Summer.

When you write, do you ever model any characters after actual people?
Sometimes. Three of the "sisters" in Farm of the Delphian Sisterhood are well known spanking video models. The fourth is the beverage cart girl at my home golf course (LOL). So, yes, sometimes a character is someone I know or knew at one time. And often, my geographical settings are places I know well.

Do you have a favourite book or story that you've written? A favourite genre?
I write across multiple genres and orientations. In fact I think one of my strengths is variety, switching from humor to serious to romance. I use a very wide range of settings, time periods, themes-from 1920's flappers in upstate New York to rural West Virginia in 1900 to Germany in 1630. What I regard as my best work, though, is the LaForge trilogy, followed by my historical works like Anne of Wulfstedt. LaForge is a novel I've always wanted to write -- I love supernatural thrillers. The historicals are fun because I like period pieces in general. I guess after that it's the contest entry short stories. I took a lot of time with those, especially the picture contest ones.

What don't you write?
I deliberately do not write childhood domestic discipline stories, so you won't find that except in the occasional flashback. My focus is on adult relationships and drama. I also don't write about people in "the scene" who are, a fortiori, "spankos".

What are your views on spanking fan fiction?
I don't particularly care for it, although I guess I do have one - Mission Impossible, The Lost Episode. I just could never get into using someone else's characters and having to keep to the style and tone of the character and replicate the setting. I only wrote Mission because someone asked - who is Rollin? So I wrote that one deliberately making it as much like the old TV show as I could.

When writing a longer story, do you plot out the detail in advance, or make it up as you go along?
It's mostly plotted out in advance. Things can change, like I get another idea, but before I start writing I have the end in mind. In fact knowing the end, I can then back up to formulate what precedes the end and work backwards. Sometimes part of the way through I get a different idea, though, and I have to go back and change things to fit.

Can you name some stories by other spanking authors that you like, and say why.
I don't read a lot of spanking stories much any more, I don't really have the time. But I think I have mentioned Mary Ann and Ginger. I was of course familiar with njrick, Seegee, PhilK, Goodgulf and CrimsonKid from other sites and boards pre-LSF. Certain writers are very good at certain things. Arthur Blimp, for example, in the F/M English schoolboy setting; flopsy doing the whimsical British humor type of story (not that I understand British humor all that well). The best I have read in recent times was a novel published in parts on the Our Castle site in '09 called The Point of it All by someone named Jade. I have no idea who that is, but it was very well written.

Which point of view do you tend to write in? Why do you prefer it over other POV's?
It really depends on the story, its characters, the tone, the setting. And in a spanking story it's really critical because you are deciding on the person who is going to either see, control (or perhaps feel) the action. So it really depends. You have to decide "do I want the story told through the eyes of a witness or a participant?"

I use first person a lot when things are new and it's an eye opening experience for my character, like for Sam Reilly in Farm of the Delphian Sisterhood. I use third person if I want to reveal the thoughts of more than one character. Third person is essential if there is a bit of exposition or back story. Then when you use third person you have to decide how much your narrator knows. Do you want to describe the thoughts and feelings of just one person or more than one? Often in this type of story it's two -- the spanker and spankee. Or maybe if the narrator is an observer, just his/her thoughts and feelings.

Are you working on anything right now?
Yes, it's a sci-fi multipart novella-length story that is about a Space Federation trying to make a treaty with a world that has primitive technology but valuable medicinal plants. The planet is a 15th Century type world with various warring factions and Federation agents are inserted under cover, trying to blend in. The task is to facilitate a wedding that will unite two kingdoms which likely lead to a successful negotiation. Certain parties wish to disrupt the wedding. The culture of the planet believes in corporal punishment and the female agents are subject to that in various ways as the plot unfolds.


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