The Library of Spanking Fiction: Wellred Weekly
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The Evolution of a Saga (cont.) I am often asked whether my characters are real or imaginary. Of course I am legally obliged to state that my books are ... 'works of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.' This, of course, is complete nonsense. The characters of three out of the four primary protagonists in the Woody Back to School Unit saga, Joanna (Jojo) Heyworth, Deborah (Debs) Morton and Nicola Jane (Nixdown) Nixon are all based upon real-life characters of my acquaintance. Jojo is my wife, collaborator, and cherished muse. Debs obviously evolved out of the original spanking I spoke of earlier and her character became fully developed following several subsequent conversations that I shared with Debbie while she was a graduate student at Concordia University in Montreal. Nixdown was the first true woman of kink that I encountered way back in the mid-seventies when I spent many of my nights dee-jaying on the London club circuit. All three of these characters were quite well developed long before I began the Woody Back to School Unit saga.   In contrast, although Rosemary Booker had played a cameo role in many of my previous stories her more detailed character and back-story was developed as a direct result of developing the saga. I felt that the larger than life characters of Jojo, Debs and Nixdown needed to be counterbalanced against a less flamboyant, albeit marginally batty, chum and Rosie became the fourth member of the group known as the Famous Four. Rosemary is fairly typical of the majority of the characters that populate the Woody community. I had always had a quite strong visual image of her and her personality is a composite of several individuals that I have encountered in my life. Characters such as Claire Brooks, Bernadette Summers, Lisa Sutton, the Butcher Twins, Melanie White, Yvonne Godfrey and Mitch the Bitch are all based around people that I have met and with whom I had some spanking related interaction, vanilla or otherwise. Whereas, many of the other characters that I have developed as members of the Woody community are as a result of pictures of particular individuals that I felt might benefit from a damn good spanking, or articles that I have seen in newspapers, magazines or happened across on the Internet. A small minority of the Woody gals are designed purely from imagination and/or have been driven by a gap in a story line that needs to be filled.   Having started on the voyage of converting stories into full-length books I predictably became obsessed with the burgeoning world of e-books and self-publishing and decided to create the books in a professional format and find a way to sell them on the web. I started with the initial volume of the saga (when I didn't even know that I was creating a saga) Volume 1 - Whops and Clobber. After several miss-starts due to the editing, formatting and galley proofing processes etc. I needed an outlet. Having already taken the plunge and expense of purchasing an ISBN number that allowed my new book to be published in some mainstream literary web-stores I observed that this might be as fruitful as pushing string up-hill. After some consideration I decided that there would be no money in the mainstream market place so the obvious conclusion was to sell my wares through a blog. When I made this decision I had no real idea what the difference between a blog and a conventional webpage might be so that was another obsessive learning experience. Eventually I paid to have the first five volumes of the saga put into paperback format and made available from Lulu, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and I think iBooks. Anyway, this all turned out to be a barely cash-neutral exercise and extremely time-consuming. At the time the new Woody Back to School Unit blog had picked up a fairly significant momentum and following, considering the somewhat niche content that we publish. I finally decided that I would simply use my blog as a library and publish the saga in pdf format to be downloaded by my guests for free. I must confess that unusually this decision did not meet with the approval of my beloved Jojo but nonetheless she has as always respected my right to give away my work and has been unfailingly supportive.   The next development in bringing the Woody gals to public attention was the establishment of a collaborative relationship with Dave Ell, a commercial cartoonist operating out of Phuket in Thailand. I had happened upon Dave's work on the blog of the professional spankette, Emma Bishop. I contacted Dave and we established commercial terms and I sent him my first briefing. The briefings are fairly detailed. I provide photos of the characters to be illustrated in the toon, detailed descriptions of the clobber they should be wearing (including whether collars and ties should be fastened or loosened - my particular fetish and obsession), then frame-by-frame descriptions of location, action and dialogue. It is rather like story-boarding a film and rather fun. The more detail I provide the more Dave's creative juices seem to flow and some of these briefings, especially one's featuring a large cast of characters, run to many pages long. Initially I expected to commission four or five toons and then be done with it. As usual I became somewhat obsessed with creating these briefs and before I knew it I had commissioned over a hundred unique and original toons. Recently I have become less prolific in the update of my blog and see it more as an outlet for delivering the final few volumes of the Woody saga to my readers, and as a library and gallery for the complete body of work. There are currently forty complete volumes available both at the blog and in the archives of the Kilahara Library of Spanking Fiction. I believe that it will take another two or possibly three more volumes to bring this part of the saga to its conclusion. However, as my readers may have noticed I have long hinted that once the current saga is done and dusted I have left the door wide open for a further set of yarns that will feature the many characters from the Back to School Unit in a slightly different setting.  7 comments
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