"Domspace"

[cymbidia]

I'd love to read a BDSM story written from way inside the perspective of the Dom during intense, emotional, focused play. The story might come from a place deeply internal, inside the skin of his emotions and feelings and needs as he directed the touching between him and the sub.

Like the better known phenomenon called "subspace", there exists a corresponding space for the Dominant called "Domspace". Like subspace, Domspace isn't part of each trip into playland. Perhaps it even occurs only infrequently and is a far more highly desirable and prized experience due to that relative rarity. However, i've never read a story from that perspective and would *love* to.

There's no way i can write about this and have it ring true with anything approaching authenticity. As you might know, my perspective is far too firmly rooted on the other side to allow me the clarity needed for such a story. Maybe you could write it though. I've suggested this to several of the strongly Dom-oriented BDSM writers here; alas, none seems interested. Too much a niche subject?

FYI, here's a link to *the* definitive essay on Domspace, if you don't know it firsthand, if you're at all interested:
http://members.aol.com/MasterNik/DomSpace.html

(No one answered my last post here, about the need for really edgy D/s stories so i wrote my own but i cannot write this one cuz the viewpoint is just too foreign to my experiences. C'mon...you know you want to write this thing.)

cc: many of the strongly Dom-oriented Lit writers via private email. http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/otn/wink/wink.gif

 

[1musicman]

the domspace story!

Cym,

thank you for reading my story! I look forward to your comments when you send them to me.

After thinking about it a little, I thought I might take a swing at a story that involves or is about "domspace". To tell you the truth, it has never occurred to me to write about this although I have played around with a story that did involve some aspects of domspace. I never thought to give that area a name like "domspace" and I am happy to have been brought there by you.

I don't know about you, but I write from and inspirational source that is not always open to be drawn from. The story will appear when it appears and I will send it to you before I post it, perhaps for an editorial look from you if you have the time.

Are there any other things that run in your mind when you think about a story like this? Or are there some details or elements that you would want to see in a story like this? let me know please so that I can think about including them as things come together and I start writing the story. This could be fun so I am going to a blank page to see what appears!

 

[cymbidia]

My inspiration is a sometimes quantity, not the freely-flowing river of talent and technique-mastered that it seems to be for so many here (she says with envy-edged emotion tingeing her tones). I'm not sure what you draw from for your stories but all of mine are experience-based to some extent. However, i'm totally insanely greenly jealous of those Lit writers, and there are a lot of them, who can submit stories about situations of which they've never been a part.

That said, i think it's really cool that you would consider a story from this very unique, very niche-sorta perspective. Sometimes we need a stretch, right? did you go read that essay (oooh, scary word!) on the whole subject? I have to admit that i'm totally *fascinated* with this. I've known about (and experienced) subspace off and on through the years. We've all read about it. But this is something kinda new for most people and there's just not much out there, fiction or not, about it.

Soooo... i'm really looking forward to seeing what you might do with this. WHEN did you say it'd be here? Next week? By the 30th? ~poke~ May 10th?

 

[1musicman]

I did read the essay and I have been thinking about possibilities for a story. This is a space I have been to and it was interesting to read the essay and to recognize some things there, to see some places I have seen in my own adventures. It was quite powerful reading even if it wasn't that good an essay. A story will come out of this,a lot of things have been stirred up in my mind, too much for nothing creative to appear. Stay tuned...

 

[Ray Dario]

Re: DomSpace

Cym, I just finished reading the essay. Wow! I have never experienced anything like that but find the idea of writing the story you suggest intriguing and a little frightening.

To write a story I have to immerse myself in the characters and to lower myself mentally into DomSpace is well, scary.

Still, I may attempt this sometime, after all stretching my limit as a writer is the only way to improve. But I am currently working on several projects that prevent me from starting it immediately.

Ray Dario

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the invite to write such a story, but I'm afraid it would be too "intense" for me and I just couldn't do it justice. Perhaps someone with a little more experience could.

 

[1musicman]

This is much deeper than I though it would be when I began to think about it! I have begun three different pieces that I thought would lend themselves to writing more about this concept, the one of "domspace" I mean. It is as you suggested Cym, in order to write this successfully the writer needs to be able to draw on some direct personal experience and that brings some interesting questions to the fore. The question I am repeating to myself is how much of this deep stuff I want to unveil and another is just how honest I have been with myself about this part of the arena. Still, I am not giving up now, but I am going to work harder on it than I imagined I would have to! This is a challenge and I am taking it on until the point that I decide that I will have to wrench too much of my own stuff out of its socket. This could happen but I am soldiering on in the meantime. Thank you Cym for providing this challenge, I am still trying to tackle it.

 

[cymbidia]

I should never have put this forth as a possibility or pushed it as i did.
It was a hubris-inspired suggestion, pure and simple.
I'm sorry.
I withdraw it from consideration.

 

[Ray Dario]

To late to withdraw it Cym, you have already started the creative juices flowing. Besides, it is an excellent idea and not at all hubris motivated. Perhaps lust induced, but not hubris

I am already thinking of how to do this story. It will be several weeks before I can get to it but when I do, would you mind if I sent it to you for your comments before posting it?

Okay, so now it is my hubris that is compeling me to write the story. Oh! Forgive me my pride fore I must strive to achieve.

Ray

 

[Ray Dario]

Okay guys. My attempt at writing this is now posted. It came out a little different than planned. Not so much DomSpace as Primal space so, with Cybididia's urging, I changed the name to "Primal Lust"

Forwarn: It is not a hot and steamy sex romp story like I usually write. In fact it may not even be true erotica. Very little sex in it, but a hell of a lot of D/s.

Check it out and then write your better story about DomSpace and let us know when you post it!

Ray

 

[cymbidia]

Ray's story came out beautifully, *especially* since it came from the mind and imagination of a non-Lifestyler. I think he admirably captured the intensity and excess of emotion inherent in the situation he describes. His story is here: http://www.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=13628

(Forgot that link, did you Ray? http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/otn/happy/11zwinky.gif )

 

[Hecate]

Excellent story Ray! Compliments!

I guess little cym has stuck the idea into my head too. No matter how hard I try to forget about it, she has woken a "nightmare" story in me though. I guess I have to write it eventually to face those demons ... we will see.

 

[cymbidia]

Oh! Great news, Lady!!! We need a little bit of Domme perspective here in Storyland, don't you think? Otherwise, all the nillas will think there's only M/f BDSM that exists and all those lost, lonely msubbies will wonder where they go with their needs. http://cwm.ragesofsanity.com/otn/ez/pi_thumbsup.gif