Book Update

Hi Everybody! I know I've been very bad with posting recently, but I have been writing the new book furiously and instead of a regular post I thought I'd give you an update on how it's going.

I've been writing at an absolutely furious pace. I'm already at 45,000 words, or almost 200 paperback sized pages (my last book was around 75,000 words so I'm more than halfway there). It seems to be largely writing itself, mainly because I have so much actual experience to draw upon in terms of getting spanked! I'm structuring it into quite short punchy chapters of about 2000-3000 words each (5-10 pages). So far I have the first 20 chapters written.

I had a bit of a false start where the character was more like me, engaging in spanking more for kinky fun. I got some ways along and then thought, no, that's not working. I think we all like fantasizing that this stuff is more real than that, but still without being ultimately non-consensual. That's why I removed the chapter I published in my last blog post, and went back and re-edited everything leading up to it. I now think I've got it much better dialed in.

I think the best and most realistic model for the consensual non-consensual is the trad wife Christian domestic discipline sort of thing, so I took inspiration from there and from my own feelings.

Our heroine is doing it because she was spanked mildly by a loving Dad when she was a little girl, and she associates all sorts of warm and safe and loving things with that time. Then she strikes out into the world on her own with no discipline or structure at all and messes her life up royally. She then happens to meet an older strong Christian man (but not a holy roller type - a more strong morals, drinks beer, shoots gun, trains MMA sort of guy) who firmly believes in traditional values concerning marriage and children, which includes putting his wife across his knee when she needs it. The thought of that melts our young herione, who sees a real Daddy-figure in this man, and willingly, even enthusiastically, accepts it all. There is a big age difference between them (23 to 34) so the young wife can be treated almost like a naughty daughter at times.

Here is what I have so far.

The first twelve chapters introduce the backstories and the characters, have David and Julie meet one another and fall in love, and sees it all the way through meeting the parents and to their marriage and honeymoon. During this time they discuss David's traditional notions of marriage and family, and his firm belief in the man being the breadwinner and the head of the household, and spankings to keep his wife in line when she needs it. This fulfills something in young Julie and she jumps into the trad wife life with both feet as a complete convert, even insisting on the "obey" vows in her marriage ceremony. Living a Christian lifestyle is a show-stopper for David, so Julie agrees to convert, and becomes passionate about that as well. She is introduced to the very traditional church thinking on the topic of gender roles and raising children during Christian marriage preparation classes.

During this time, Julie is introduced to spanking, at first playfully when she strips bare and INSISTS that David fucks her pre-maritally and gets a mild naked over-the-knee spanking for her troubles. While David has fucked other girls, with Julie he thinks there's something special there, and refuses to fuck her until and unless they marry. Out of this they discuss David's trad views. As Julie is still only his girlfriend, she is not subject to disciplinarian spankings even though she does have some bad habits that annoy David. Julie is very nervous about this aspect of married life, and asks David if he can "test drive" what she can expect as wifely discipline while they are still dating. As a result, after a big screw up, Julie experiences a real discipline session from David. Even though she was severely spanked to tears with a hairbrush, she realizes this is exactly what she needs in her life and the engagement goes forward.

I have some sweet moments of falling in love, first kisses, first fooling around, first play spanking, romantic settings, David popping the question and giving Julie  a big diamond engagement ring (that scene made me cry!), the marriage ceremony, the very romantic "mystery" honeymoon, and a few real spankings along the way.

The next section of the book, chapters 13 to 17, is Julie's bumpy conversion to Christianity. The  character feels as I do. To quote from the book,

I still didn't really believe in God, and am still struggling with it as I write this today, but I believed and still believe in the philosophies, the spirituality, the virtues, the morals, the community, the discipline, the mysteries, and the values of Christianity, especially as it pertains to family life.

Any lack of faith is not the issue. It's more Julie's insecurities that get in the way of adult Christian education. It starts with a giant misunderstanding. On their first Sunday at church after returning from their honeymoon, the Pastor sends Julie down to meet a certain Mrs. Parsons. When she gets to the indicated room, she is horrified to find it's packed with children. Before Mrs. Parsons can explain that adult classes don't start for a couple of months, and in the meantime it would be great if Julie could assist her as a teacher's aid, Julie assumes she is to be a pupil and blows her stack at Mrs. Parsons and swears at her in front of all the children, and then storms off back home angrily. She is NOT to be insulted like that!

David discovers the misunderstanding and goes home to Julie. After it is explained, Julie is mortified. David spanks her and washes her mouth out with soap. Next day he goes and tries to smooth things over with the Pastor and Mrs. Parsons. They agree to allow Julie to continue her conversion, but to teach her some humility, they insist Julie attend Sunday School as a pupil until further notice, subject to all the rules the children are subject to. Mrs. Parsons even insists that Julie dress "small" for the class.

Julie swallows her pride and accepts her punishment in the spirit intended, to teach her some good old-fashioned Christian humility. What is particularly bad is that, of course, the middle-aged parents, all considerably older than Julie, come to pick up their kids from Sunday School after services, and Julie becomes the focus of much gossip amongst the parents in the church.

Julie is, however, determined to be the best Sunday School pupil Mrs. Parsons has ever seen. She does impress, and is soon transitioned into helping out with the children here and there. Of course, Julie gets a little bored one day and sneaks a peak at her cell phone to surf social media. The eagle-eyed Sunday School teacher spots Julie, however, and confiscates her phone, telling Julie to find her husband after class and to bring him to her office to retrieve it.

In the office, David asks when corporal punishment was banned in the church. It was 15 years ago. David asks if perhaps Mrs. Parsons can resurrect it in the case of Julie. He has Julie sign a permission note, and Mrs. Parsons checks with the Pastor and is given his go ahead. So Julie is then given the strap to her hands and the paddle to her pantied backside in the office with David present, and is warned that if she needs to be punished again, Mrs. Parsons would not hesitate to put her across her knee, lower her panties, and leather her backside until the girl is in tears. Of course, spanked at church means spanked at home as well...

Julie is again good as gold for awhile and continues to transition more into teacher's aide than pupil over the course of the next few weeks. But then Julie does something inexcusable. One of the brattier little boys sneaks up behind Julie and sticks a sharpened pencil into her backside! Julie sees red, turns and smacks the child across its face. A huge commotion erupts and Mrs. Parsons, not caring about any provocation from a 6-year-old, makes Julie stand in the classroom facing the corner while the child is attended to and its parents called. The parents are furious that their little angel was struck and are even considering pressing assault charges. Mrs. Parsons talks them down and gets them to accept a severe spanking for Julie that they will wind up witnessing.

Along the way to this humiliating spanking, we discover that Julie, who does not have the strongest bladder to begin with, has more extreme bladder control problems when she becomes extremely nervous and humiliated. There are rules for children who wet themselves during Sunday School that Connie Ferndorf, the aggrieved and vindictive mother, insist be applied in full to Julie...

Thoroughly humbled by her experiences in Sunday School, Julie graduates to the adult conversion class when it convenes, and is eventually baptised in the local stream (regretting her choice of white see-through-when-wet shift she naively put on, much to the amusement of the gathered congregation).

The next three chapters deal with David's younger and still single sister Beatrice who comes to visit the newlywed couple and stay with them for a week. During this time, David's past comes out, involving a drunk and abusive father and a mother who passed away when David was 20. We learn that David became the official guardian of Beatrice when she was fourteen, and they reminisce fondly about their early struggles with discipline, and how under the guidance of the church David learned to discipline the unruly teen and bring her into line.

When Bea turned 18 and went to school out of state, we learn how Bea's life spiralled out of control, and of Bea's own decision to make lists of wrongdoings and present them to her big brother whenever she visited to be disciplined for them. While Bea is now 28, and is hopeful of finding a Christian husband who spanks, this arrangement continues to this day, and Julie, as David's wife, is asked by Bea if it is ok if it continues a while longer?

Julie is intrigued to see another girl spanked, and readily agrees. She even gets into the action herself, and winds up spanking her older sister-in-law as practice for when she eventually has kids herself, and the favour is returned as well with a good old fashioned switchin' of Julie by Bea under David's supervision for some misbehaviour.

The sequence ends with a very severe belt whipping administered by David to Bea while Julie watches for the last, and most egregious item on Bea's list.

I'm now about to start in on the next part which will more heavily involve Julie's quite large family, as it gradually comes out that Julie is a spanked wife, and everybody seems perfectly fine with that. Here I can really start mixing in some real episodes from my life to root it in reality, but carry them further into fantasy land.

So that's where I am. Having great fun writing it. I think it's sexy as all get out and I look forward to publishing it!