One of the negatives of the Word version I’m using is that the word count on the docx. stops showing past 99K. Makes it difficult to figure out where you are. Where I am right now is at 75,000 words on the newest version of Grace, which is still 10,000 words more then the complete manuscript which topped out at 108K.
I’m nearing the first climax, which is 2/3rds through the story. There is a reason for that. It’s because I’m stubborn. I write the way I want to write. I’ve tried writing more mainstream, but if that makes me miserable, why bother? It’s very likely my novels and novellas will never be a success, never mind a commercial smash, but that’s not why I write in the first place.
A quick blurb: This is not a light and fluffy spanking story. Boy meets girl. Girl gets spanked. Wedding bells and a baby nine months later. This spanking story will make you cry, laugh and scream. It will make you angry, sad and aroused, but it will never make you comfortable.
I’ve mentioned the plot device before in various posts, but not in much detail. It is also why this manuscript has given me fits for ten years. Did I mention as well that I’m stubborn? A dirty little secret about writing is that the words are not static nor dead on the page/screen. Every writer hears the characters talking inside, they often drive the narrative to places the writer never thought of going. But the experiences, the traumas, the joys and sorrows of your life find their way to the page/screen as well. Authors are not the words we write but neither are the words we write not based upon our lives.
So: Plot device.
Character 1 is present day male Dom
Character 2 is present day female sub
Character 3 is past day female sub [title character]
Character 4 is past day female switch
The narrative is told from the viewpoint of #1 in the present, relaying his past with #3 and #4 to #2. In the past, #3 and #4 tell their stories to the reader which sometimes but not always involve #1. The past and present are 8 years apart through the climax -see above- then shortly afterwards, the past collides with the present.
What the reader sees is the complete picture, but the pasts of #3 and #4 are much worse than #1 ever knew. #2 wants to know about #1’s past because she also has a hidden past that #1 doesn’t know about. When #1 reveals what he did to #3 and #4 that precipitates a crisis by triggering #1, whereby the D/s that #1 and #2 are doing, screeches to a halt, but not for good.
The novel does with end with HEAFN [that’s Happily Ever After For Now] because I’m a sap at heart. Love me a good romance.
Byron Cane Spanking and Erotic Fiction 
You should write what makes you feel fulfilled, my friend! And if it happens to be a little bit naughty…well, all the better 🙂
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“Every writer hears the characters talking inside, they often drive the narrative to places the writer never thought of going.”
I find this so interesting. I have never experienced this but it does explain how writers are able to do what the do. Missy x
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I do for the most part. I enjoy the writing part, the free flow – most of the time – of words. It’s when you have to go back to the beginning and start plucking out the weeds that the hard work starts. This novel is way past being a little bit naughty. 🙂
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That raises the issue with Grace though that the characters have said their bit. Editing, unless you’re dumping whole plots, they generally don’t have much to contribute. They’ve moved on and away.
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