Inspiration Calling by Kay Jaybee

I have the lovely Kay Jaybee with me today, so over to you Kay...

Thank you ever so much for inviting me to your great blog today Tilly!

One of the questions that I’m often asked is how, after so long writing erotica, do I keep finding the inspiration for my stories. To be honest, I actually have the opposite problem than you might imagine. I don’t find I run out of inspiration, but have so much my head is continually bursting with ideas I’ll never have time to follow up even if I wrote every day for the rest of my life!

Inspiration is everywhere. It’s in the smell of fresh air, the fall of a leaf, the odd sentence in an overheard conversation, the umbrella accidentally left in the freezer at the supermarket... I saw a hairbrush dropped on a cafe floor a few months ago - the story of why and how that hairbrush came to be there will be written!! Of course, it probably just fell out a handbag - but perhaps it didn’t, perhaps there was another reason...

The story I put together for the anthology Smut Alfresco came about in a similar way. I was travelling, and saw an abandoned mattress out of the window. It looked so sad somehow as it lay unwanted on the edge of a field. I wanted to write its story - after all, if a mattress hasn’t got a tale to tell, then what has!!

Here’s a little snippet for you...

The way the two women sniggered as they spotted me lying on the ground, made me sure they hadn’t expected their walk to produce such a convenient opportunity to fuck.

From the scent of them, I’d say they’d been drinking cocktails. The mildly sickly scent of boozy peach and mango fruit clung to them, suggesting they’d partaken of enough alcohol to be without inhibition, but not enough to be without decision making abilities.

The minute they saw me, cast aside, damaged and unwanted amongst a pile of autumn leaves at the edge of a wood, they knew what they wanted to do, and their giggling became laced with purpose.

            Somehow, during the periods of inaction between eventful episodes of accidental discovery by passersby, I’ve almost blended into the landscape, forming a hinterland of sexual promise between the woods to my right, and a farmer’s field to my left. However, like so many of my opportune visitors, these young ladies didn’t care that a number of my springs were poking out of my sides, or that nights and days of rainfall had given me the musty aroma of the trees that surround me.

            You could see the need for sex burn in the women’s matching green eyes. I’d know that look anywhere. I used to see in the old days when I’d been working as half of a partnership. ‘Mattress and bed!’ What a team we’d formed when we’d resided together in a cheap hotel in town. Couple after couple would visit me and my divan support back then, in a “rent me by the hour” sort of a way. I miss that life. I miss making people happy. I miss fulfilling my purpose properly...’

My advice to anyone finding their inspiration a little lacking is - look around you.

Go on - do it now.

Look at the place where you’re sat, stood, or walking through, right now as you read this blog. I bet you can see a story.

Is there litter on the floor? Can you see an empty coffee cup? Can you smell fresh paint? How hard is the wind blowing? Is the heating turned up too high? Is it freezing, and yet someone has left a scarf on the floor unworn.... I’d love to hear if any of this has inspired you...

Happy writing everyone - and thanks again Tilly for letting me gatecrash your space!

Kay xx

Kay Jaybee wrote the novels Making Him Wait, (Sweetmeats Press, 2012), The Voyeur (Xcite, 2012), The Perfect Submissive (Xcite 2012), as well as the novellas, Digging Deep (Xcite, 2013), A Sticky Situation, (Xcite, 2012), and The Circus, (Sweetmeats Press). She has also written the anthologies The Collector (Austin & Macauley, 2012 & 2008), The Best of Kay Jaybee (Xcite, 2012), Tied to the Kitchen Sink, Equipment, (All Romance, 2012), Yes Ma’am (Xcite e-books, 2011), Quick Kink One and Quick Kink Two (Xcite e-books, 2010). Kay has had over 70 short stories published by Cleis Press (inc. Best of Best Women’s Erotica 2, Best Women’s Erotica 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012; Best Bondage 2012 and 2013, Sweet Love, Smooth, Gotta Have It, Sweet Confessions), Black Lace (Sexy Little Numbers), Mammoth (The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Erotica), Xcite (inc.Ultimate Sin, Boy Fun, Power Play, Threesomes, Finger Music, Tricks For Kicks), Penguin (Oysters and Chocolate; Erotic Stories of Every Flavor), Seal (Oysters and Chocolate; Nice Girls, Naughty Sex),and Sweetmeats Press (Immoral Views)

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