writing advice/Describing what implements feel like

[Shadowlight]

Okay so in a story that I am working on there's a eleven year old girl basically risks her life over something she was told pacifically not to do. I was going to have her guardian/mother figure to spank her but I am unsure what implement that should be used or how anything other than a hand would feel.

[Shadowlight]

I have no idea how to describe any implement other than a opened hand.

How would you describe implements such as a belt, paddle, switch, hairbrush, etc?
(This is for a writing thing by the way.)

[RobM]

The answer is, test it.

You don't need to hit hard, or even on the backside - but you should be able to understand what pain is like even with out.

Slap yourself on the forearm or the back of bicep a half-dozen times with an open hand or brush. End of the belt works fine there too if your careful. As for pain... you've surely felt pain before.

I've switched (although never for research purposes, merely because turn-around is fair play once in a long while) so I can draw on that with a bit of extension.

If you intend to write without experience just try not to make any pronouncements you aren't certain about and remember that most of your readers are likely to have never spanked anyone or been spanked themselves.
Generally you could just stick with the acceptable basics: Hands sting, Brushes and paddles sting more and are hard and inflexible, leather straps burn with more stinging aftertaste and canes causes lines fo fire. Even the innacuracies are going to be acceptable if you follow the author conventions.

[aka]

You can also bust out ye olde Google, and look up what other people are saying about various implements. Something like "differences between implements" or "which implements hurt the most/least," "what does a cane feel like?" that sort of thing. There's an entire world of blogs out there, ranging from play to domestic discipline, that talk about these kinds of things.

[penmask]

Testing something on yourself is a good way to get a feel for things so you can describe them yourself, but thankfully (or not, depending on your point of view) you don't have to do that if you don't want to. There are tons of spanking stories out there already, and chances are one of them involves the use of an implement you're interested in. Now I'm not saying you should go out and plagiarize something, but it never hurts to take notes as you read something so that you can refer to them when you're writing. It's a lot better than sitting down without any reference material and having to pull everything out of thin air. NOTES BABY!

Anyway, here's a quick rundown of a few different implements and how I'd write their feeling. Keep in mind too that the "feel" of a particular implement also depends a lot on who it's being used on. An eleven year old who's never received more than a few half-hearted swats over her shorts is going to experience a paddling way differently than a twenty-five year old who's been subjected to spankings all of her life.

Oh, and one other thing. We are all aware that real life and the fantasy world of books are two totally different things. In books you can beat a spankee for hours at a time with a heavy paddle and they'll just be sore and have trouble sitting down the next day if you want them to. My descriptions below aren't meant to be super duper real world accurate, but close enough so that your readers won't think you're totally off the mark.

(All descriptions below are written with the assumption that they're being used on a bare bottom of a girl in her teens, with no prior warm up, and that the spankee has at least some experience with being spanked.)

Belt (Regular ordinary belt)
Noise: THWACK, THWAP, SNAP, CRACK
Style:
I consider the belt to be one of those "a little bit goes a long way" kind of implements. You could limp-wrist it and give out a lot of stripes that sort of sting but don't really hurt all that much, or you could bring it down hard and fast. The belt is a leather implement that will provide a ton of surface sting, and when wielded at high speed can welt and bruise as well. Give it slowly and methodically, and after ten the spankee will be pushed to the brink of tears or may already be bawling (depending on how you write them).

It's a wide and long, very stingy burn that also bites deep into your bottom.

Example:
She heard the leather whistling through the air, and half a second later a sharp THWACK as it bit into her upturned bottom. For a split-second she thought that things might not be so bad, the belt had sent her bottom rippling with the force of its impact, but otherwise hadn't hurt that bad. Then the fire came. An inch-wide band of white hot agony erupted across her bottom where the belt had hit, searing her skin and digging deeper into the muscles underneath. She knew she'd be feeling this punishment for days to come.


Paddle (Big, think thick sorority style, or the "Board of Education")
Noise: THWACK, THWAP, CRACK
Style:
Again the big paddle is one of those "a little bit goes a long way" kind of implements. Unlike the belt or strap which are made from leather and have a lot of give to them, the paddle is big, heavy, and rigid. When it hits, it's going to sting, but it's also going to hit deep and bruise. A paddling from a "big" paddle would only need to be 4-6 swats to leave a spankee aching, bruised, and unable to sit comfortably for a good long while.

It's a wide heavy pain that bores deep to the center of your bottom. Remember that it's a big implement with a lot of surface area, so after only a few swats your spanker is going to run out of fresh places to spank and is going to be doubling and tripling up on old paddle swats.

Example:
She could feel her heart fluttering in her chest as she lay waiting bent over the back the chair in the principal's office. The hard curved metal of the seat back dug uncomfortably into her belly and she had to stand up on the balls of her feet to reach the other side and hold the front of the seat. She knew she should be grateful that the secretary was in the room with her so that she wasn't alone with her bare bottom on display for the principal, but the smug look on the woman's face just added an extra layer of humiliation to her punishment.

Gritting her teeth she waited for the first swat to find its mark. When it did, it took her breath away. The force of the impact rocked her forward against the chair so that for a moment its back legs lifted up off the ground half an inch, and then she saw stars as the pain of the hard jarring impact caught up with her. The blow had been applied directly to the center of the plumpest part of her bottom, and both cheeks felt like they were on fire as she tightened her grip on the seat in front of her and held on for dear life as the second one followed up on it in the same place.


Small Paddle / Hairbrush
Noise: THWACK, THWAP, CRACK
Style:
Unlike the "big" paddle, a small paddle or hairbrush is much lighter and thinner (somewhere in the neighborhood of a quarter inch), but is still very rigid. Since it has a much smaller surface area to strike with, covering at most half of one cheek, and is a lot lighter, it can be swung much faster and used to give a lot more swats. Since it's lighter, it's going to mostly sting a whole ton, and not really bite in deep and bruise like a "big" paddle or belt would. Since that's the case, your spanker can give a long and very thorough spanking that will leave the spankee bawling, simmering, and with a scarlet bottom that stings like the devil but that isn't covered in bruises.

For the small paddle or hairbrush, think light fast snappy swats piled on at a rapid pace for a very long time. Each individual swat stings on its own, but isn't unbearable. It's the combined power of a ton of swats working together t hat add up to a blast furnace on your spankee's bottom.

It also should be noted that the wooden spoon (assuming it's not one of those super duper heavy ones) is more or less the same way, but with a much smaller surface area.

Example:
With the paddle in one hand, and my arm in the other, Mom dragged me over to the kitchen table, pulled out a chair, and sat down. Ignoring all of my pleas for her to wait until my friends had left, she reached forward and undid the snap and zipper on my shorts and yanked them and my panties down to my knees in one swift motion. She then grabbed my left wrist and hauled me over her waiting knee and dragged me into position so that my bare bottom was pointed straight up over her lap.

Without another word she picked up the paddle and started spanking. The swats fell in a rapid-fire rhythm all over my bottom and the backs of my thighs, Mom randomly changing her target with each swat so I never knew where the next one would land. At first the humiliation I felt over being bare bottomed across my mom's knee being spanked like a child in front of my two best friends was all I could think about, but as the swats continued to fall, the individual sting from each one started to fade less and less and instead seemed to be building as they bled together until my bottom felt like it was on fire. The worst part about the pain though was the fact that it didn't seem to plateau, with each passing moment it only grew more and more intense, until finally I was frantically kicking and sobbing in time with each swat and promising to be a good girl from then on!



Hope that helps~