Typically, I write about what I know. Trailer parks, cheap bars, suburbs, the 1980s, TV Shows, etc. I realize that the QUALITY of writing matters far more than the setting. You can tell a great story set in a strip club. You don't need a backdrop of mansions and limosuines.
That being said I was curious if any of you like Historical BDSM fiction? if so, what time period?
I wrote a short story about a lady in the antebellum south during the civil war that was living on a plantation when the war took most of the menfolk. The slaves ran off, the horses and cattle had been raided. They were facing starvation and they tried to till the fields themselves.
The bitter old woman whose generosity allowed the woman to live at the mansion fell while they were trying to do that and broke her leg. She blamed the woman. One thing led to another, and the woman was trussed up like a cart pony to pull a plow. The only man left able to guide the plow was her sickly teenage son.
I subsequently added other sub-stories to this story but no one ever commented or seemed to care about it. There was a lot of influence from George Pichard (French artist) stories like Road to Repentence.
I wrote a short fantasy story about a dark elf that was captured by Orcs and trained as a slave in the underground. To say that there were crickets that responded to that story would be exaggerating it's popularity.
I wrote a Game of Thrones fan fiction. It was all about how through the magic of the Red Witch, Queen Daenarys became obsessed with her rule. There was a lot of BDSM and humiliation for Queen Cersei and Daenarys. I thought it was a proper ending to the series. It received a couple "nice jobs" but it was nowhere near the quality of Fanfiction Man and I accept that.
I was going to write a depression-era story about a whore house that falls on hard times and has to resort to drastic measures to survive the 1930s. However, i don't know that time period all that well.
I thought about going back to the 1600s and writing an epic about a French Monastery that trains wicked women. The nuns 'swallow the sins' of passing travellers (by sucking their cocks) in exchange for tithes. A pagan tradition started centuries earlier but adopted by the church and now enshrined in ritual.
I thought about writing a story about a female Pirate (with a very salty butthole) that tries to be a Pirate Queen in a male dominated world. I was considering setting it in the Iron Islands of Game of Thrones, or the Caribbean.
I don't like stories about Appachalachians. "Honey, I dun tied my dick to a tree!"
"Why?"
"Cuz it felt good!"
It makes them seem dumb and silly. However, if treated with respect a good story of discipline in the mountains with a strict matriarch who wants her daughters to learn to 'mind their future husbands' could be fun.
What about you? Is there a historical setting you'd like to see some BDSM in? Would you write any of these ideas? I am happy if you'd take the ball and run with them.