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Introduce the title of your story: Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing
Genre/Category: Wife Lovers (although it might be better suited in Voyeur)
Provide the link: https://www.lushstories.com/stories/wife-lovers/-baby-did-a-bad-bad-thing-.aspx

1. What first inspired you to write this particular story?
I love music. In the cafe where I work, I am able to play around with playlists (usually when it's slow). I heard Chris Isaak's song, Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing, and was intrigued by the lyrics. They are not ground-breakingly poetic, but their message was what got to me. Have you ever loved someone so much that you'd basically do anything for them? And thus my story was born.

2. How did you come up with these characters?
Dennis Barlowe, my main character, was born after I googled the video for the song. I watched it on youtube and saw the torment the guy in the video went through. I knew this story was going to have to be written from his perspective. It was the only true way to depict that raw emotional component. Then I just needed two other characters to enact my plot. Linda Barlowe, the somewhat mysterious wife and Julie Stallard the ex-girlfriend who never really got over her heartbreak. Both women needed to be powerful in their own way which helped signify that my boy Dennis had a type. I set the foundation for this with the opening scene in his office setting.

3. How does it differ from some of your other stories?
This differs in that I wrote it from the male point of view, and in the first person which presented a risk/challenge for me to try and capture his voice. It is also heavily voyeuristic, which really tested my ability to show as opposed to tell. How do you script and pen a sex scene your narrator is not involved in while avoiding 'she did this' and 'they did that'? I'm sure there are parts that a better author could have done, well... better. But I'm really pleased with how it turned out.

4. What was the most challenging thing about writing this piece?
Definitely that voyeuristic aspect. Being able to capture the essence of the action Dennis was watching was difficult. I did this by trickling in little recollections and tying those past experiences into what he was seeing play out with both women. It took a few re-writes but I think it turned out nicely.

5. Anything else you want to tell us about it?
The ending gave me fits of panic. I don't want to go into too much detail here, in case you haven't read it yet, but I struggled with whether or not to make it so intense. Ultimately, I fell back to the motivation for writing the story in the first place; what would, or better yet, what wouldn't you do for what you perceived as true love? Once I resolved myself to that, the ending pretty much wrote itself.

I hope you will give it a read and let me know what you think.

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