The Point of View of my first novel was integral to the story.
“Dominatrix Boss” is an erotic story about female domination. Most of the stories I’ve read in the genre are from the dominant woman’s point of view. I really wanted to tell this from another angle.
What was important to me was getting into the “head” of a man who is interested in becoming a submissive and serving a dominant woman. I wanted the reader to feel what each step was like, both good and bad.
I relied on my own 20 years of experience in the BDSM community, from both sides of the whip (dominant and submissive) to present something that was fiction, but still had authentic scenes, realistic emotions, and reactions from the main characters.
However, I wanted some of the dominant woman’s thoughts and methods to be obscured from the reader and the narrator. The First-Person POV allowed me to present some surprises and to keep some of her motivations secret until the end.
It was also obviously easier to get the internal voice right in the narrator since I’ve been through many of the actions and reactions that take place.
The POV for “Dominatrix Boss” was one of the first decisions I made on the book and much of what I wrote naturally followed from that decision.
