As I mentioned a few days ago, I had some concerns about what would happen if the plot became more interesting than the sex scenes when I’m writing an erotica novel. Well, as I write the second Kayfabe and Kink book (formerly just called “GWWA” on the blog), I find that exact thing happening. I just recently wrote another 3500 words, and none of them were related to sex or spanking. They were completely about the main conflict between Shannon and the newest antagonist to the story. It’s basically all wrestling scenes. Which I think is fine; it’s a book about spanking where the main character is a pro wrestler.

But as I think about other spanking books I’ve written, I haven’t really spent as much time on the plot as I have on the spanking. I got around this problem in Shell Game by having two intertwined timelines, so that there could be kink in one while there was plot in the other. In Lessons, the first chapter (after the prologue) focuses almost entirely on Eleanora’s council chamber, but at least it ends with a spanking, and the way I wrote the spanking into the plot pretty much guarantees that it’s going to show up in almost every chapter. In Training the Trainer, I don’t spend a lot of time showing Grace as a dog trainer or as a personal trainer, though there is one chapter where she goes through some training with a dog.

Partner 1 brought up an interesting point when I told her about the latest 3500 words being all wrestling. She said that I’d told her in the past (and I’ve also written about it on the blog) I tend to write what I need more of. If I need more physical touch, I’ll write more cuddling scenes; if I need more spanking or sex in my life, I’ll write more of those scenes. (Not sure how it works with the Lizzie novel, because I definitely don’t need someone to punch me in the balls.) But when I’m not writing those scenes, it’s because I’m feeling fulfilled and satisfied with the amount of those things in my life. I guess I’m feeling that way now.

I already know how the next scene with Shannon and her boyfriend is going to go. At least, I think I know. It’s in the outline. However, when I write, sometimes I don’t follow the outline exactly. And there is some tension coming up, as well as discussions of domestic discipline, and both of those things are important to the story. Here’s hoping that, when I get to the spankings and the sex, I’m as interested in writing them as I have been about the wrestling.