Thoughts on thoughts

Although it is not necessary for a science fiction writer to be an astronaut, nor a western author to be able to ride horses and fire a six shooter, it pretty much goes with the turf that a writer of spanking fiction has some affinity with the practice.

This is probably true of all writers who dabble in erotica of one kind or another - if the subject matter does not turn you on, your stories will be groan-worthy among those who are turned on by it.

Which leads to a very tempting trap for the writer of spanking fiction:  an unhealthy desire to explain what, exactly, the protagonists are getting out of the experience.

Very few readers of spanking fiction are without spanko urges of their own.   So the vast majority already know exactly what the protagonists are getting out of the experience, and any explanation is open to being less than satisfactory.   On the one hand, it is not necessary, on the other it may not right true, and on the third one, it requires you to tell the reader what people are thinking.

That third one is the real killer.    If you have to use a sentence like "She was confused by the emotions running through her mind" - you have blow it.    It is modern school, but becoming ever more widely accepted - you don't tell the reader what a person thinks or feels:  you describe what happens so that the reader can decide for themselves.

I have lifted this from Literactor to show the point.   Don't write:  "Adam knew Gwyn liked him."  For although that might set out the stall, consider how much better the stall is set out with words like """Between classes, Gwen was always leaning on his locker when he'd go to open it. She'd roll her eyes and shove off with one foot, leaving a black-heel mark on the painted metal, but she also left the smell of her perfume. The combination lock would still be warm from her ass. And the next break, Gwen would be leaned there, again."

Back to spanko fiction.   A ploy used by more than one author is to have an adult getting a spanking for the first time and - much to his/her surprise thoroughly enjoys the experience.   Assuming we have a non-spanko reader, we can now spend several pages explaining how this paradox has arisen.   Right inside the spankee's head, to relate history, current emotion and raging sex drive in as much detail as it takes to get a non-spanko to understand why something as unpleasant as pain is causing our hero/heroine such unbridled lust.

That is assuming we have a non-spanko reader.    Which is not very likely.    And if it should happen, we have deserted out prime audience of fellow spankos to explore something they already have explored to the fullest extent.

In sum, we spanking authors should not get inside the heads of our creations too often:  and when we do, it should not be to explain why spankos like spankings.