A is for Asinine

The word asinine refers to acts that are likened to those of a mule, or ass, than those that relate to the hindquarters.   But sometimes some of us get the wrong end of the stick, if you know what I mean.

There is one area of spanking entertainment that stands out as being capable of being as asinine as one could ever imagine:  dialogue.

When we write dialogue, it is possible to revamp it and reword it until it rings true - both in how it sounds and what it says.    Take a first pass of "You should not do that if you expect me not to smack your naughty little bottom with my finely tooled oaken paddle,' he sneered evilly.  With enough rewrites your might get to something like: "You say you're sorry.  You expect me to buy that?   You expect me to ignore what you've done?   By all that is holy, before I'm done, I'll make you howl your regret - but this time as if you mean it!"      Yeah - that one probably needs another four or five re-writes to get to where we need to be...Which is without all those horrible cliches.

But we do have the ability to go back and change it as often as change is needed.   Sloppy dialog in the market place for written works simply indicates that those who self publish can be very lazy when it comes to crafting good material for readers to enjoy.

But to a pet peeve.   Spanking videos.     A delight to watch (most of the time).    But when it comes to dialog in those videos, we see (hear) three main approaches for the actors:   those who say nothing (or very very little), those who make it up as they go along and those who work to scripts.

The "less you say" brigade have a fairly easy time of it:  the victim is strapped down for some unstated "crime", is whacked and is released.   The only "dialog" is "Ow!" and "Ouch!" as the whacks are delivered.

And by my way of thinking, that works far better than actors who are told to ad lib dialog within the general direction of the plot.   I am honestly not making up - one actor wielding a school cane came up with "I did not get to become a leading accountant without knowing the value of firm discipline".   (I sort of think that gets to be number one on the list of asinine lines in spanking videos.   And why, oh why, do directors think that shouting makes watching more fun?    Not only are the lines puerile, they get yelled at the top of one's voice to make them more real.)

There are well scripted and well acted spanking videos out there - but well scripted and well acted costs a lot of money to be spent before anything has been earned.   The cost/risk ratio may be irrelevant if you cannot afford the initial cost.

So - if you are going to make a spanking video - do consider the less said the better: if you cannot afford a spanko author to give you well crafted lines.

And if you are a spanko author, do consider making your fees ridiculously small when working with a first time video maker.    The enhanced success of the early releases will stand you in very good stead when later releases are planned.


And since the A to Z challenge is also a blog hop - might like to visit this site to a see a fellow author's entry for "A is for ..."