Zatanna Dark is a writer’s writer, she has seemingly endless stamina with her niche. What makes her even more special is that she is always inspiring other writers–myself included. I was eager to interview her to inspire all of us writers and to provide readers with endless material. She is AMAZING–read on to find out all about her. Z is ZABULOUS!!!
When did you start writing?
Officially started writing? I can’t say for sure, but it was around five years before I published my first book. Often I wrote short BDSM stories of the words I’d want to hear while helpless. Turned those into audio files that would randomly play through my earbuds while bound.
My very first book published was Final Bondage Wish Granted which published on Amazon December 25th, 2020. The black latex covered ass still makes me wet to this very day! God! I LOVE HER! I finally wrote a short story follow-up about her called “The Wish Granter” which is on my Substack and Medium.
You are deliciously niche, how would you describe your work as a genre?
Main genre is BDSM, which I play around all over the place within this world, as I do in my real life. I range from basics, to CBT, Spanking, Torture, Tease and Denial, Chastity, Sissies, Cheating, Horror, Paranormal, Sci-Fi, Transgressive, and more.
The word I use for my genre is Zrotica, which is all of the above, with the addition of humor and twists, which I like to call them Zwists. No surprise there. Now, I know my being all over the place has caused me to lose the interest of some readers, who don’t have as wide of genre preferences. And I understand and respect that 100%.
One day a read falls in love with a BDSM game with a hot as fuck sister-in-law, and they want more! The next story they read is about someone whose cock ends up so large it kills him. For some, a mood killer. For others, funny as hell.
Often I tell people to write for themselves, or you’ll never be happy. I LOVE having my stuff read and enjoyed so very much, but if the voice in my head says, “Hey Z! You should write about someone’s scrotum getting shredded in a golf-ball washer! That would be hilarious!” Who am I to deny that voice?
You said that you cannot find release without helplessness, can you elaborate?
I may have worded that wrong, or didn’t properly explain the connecting aspects of why I want complete helplessness and pain. Neither of these two things cause me to cum. It’s the moments of zero stress that I get off on. If I can work on a project, be it cleaning, organizing, bills, whatever, I will do those things before playtime.
So, if I’m tied in any way that I can get loose, I will get loose! I will ruin the session, and I’ll go get a large caramel frappe with extra drizzle, or clean up after our dogs, or go for a walk, or watch TV, or worry about a project I should be doing for work, or or or or or.
Now, if I can’t get loose, I can’t do any of that, my stress is gone, meaning I pretty much have no other responsibility beyond finding a way to cum. But what about the pain, you may be asking? If I don’t get loose, is it because I’m truly trying, or I absolutely can’t get loose? I don’t know, unless… PAIN!
Firm leather riding crop across my ass, and it doesn’t take me too long to realize, I AM 100% HELPLESS! = NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT = 100% STRESS FREE = TIME TO CUM! Plus, my Partner knows how to get me to Pleasure Beyond Pleasure, which can only be experienced when you can’t stop it.
Almost everyone will hit a point where they think they can’t take any more pleasure. They may ask their lover to stop, or move, or give other subtle hints like, “FUCKING STOP ALREADY! JEEZ! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?”
That’s the wall where Pleasure Beyond Pleasure exists. Most people can’t get there without someone else driving who lost track of where the brakes are. I’ll scream, I’ll yell, and swear as my Partner continues and won’t stop unless she feels like it or I pass out from exhaustion. I both love her and hate her for this… Love more than Hate.
What do you do when you are not writing?
Did you not read my answer to my last question? Kidding! But not really. BDSM on Friday nights, switching Top to Bottom and back. Playstation Diablo couch co-op. Watching GOT, Last of Us, Masked Singer, a fan of Survivor and Amazing Race, oh and Escape Rooms. We’re getting pretty good at those.
What is something about you think people would be surprised to know?
90% of my Twists, or Zwists, I have no idea about, until they happen. I rarely know the end of a story when I start. A picture talks to me about the start, and I’m along for the ride as I write. EX: I don’t have two people jump into bed together with the plan for them to roll off and take out the lamp and nightstand. That shit just happens.
Another thing is, I don’t remember most of the stories I’ve written, because my head is full of the next dozen or so I want to be writing. There have been times I’ve come across a phrase and think, that’s pretty good, wow, that’s fucked up, or I like that one, not realizing I wrote it. I guess the good part is, when I’m doing a final edit on a book I’m adding to my Substack, I get to enjoy it like it’s my first time reading it.
Have you ever written a story and thought–too far! What is your current WIP?
The very first time I shocked myself with my own words was writing Spring Break Final Bondage. It wasn’t shock because I went too far. It was shock because I made myself cry. I thought that was like trying to tickle yourself, which doesn’t work. Tingling yourself, that’s different and very easy to do.
I wrote such a happy moment full of love and happiness, I had to push back from the keyboard to take time to cry. I’m sure other writers have had moments like this, and if not, I hope they do. The words your write for others, can be words you should enjoy also, or they’re not worth writing. Those words become work, and work sucks!
As far as too far? Amazon, Smashwords, and a half-dozen other places have blocked me for what they felt was too far. It’s not like anyone dies in my… okay… there are some artistic causalities along the way. It happens. I have had to stop some times thinking, “What the Fuck Z?” Such a proud moment shocking myself like that.
I do have a story that was written from a sexting story I had after connecting with someone online. This girl wanted nothing more than to give her life to me in the most painful of ways. There has to have been a dozen or more times we sexted where she, or likely a he, I really didn’t care, because it was making me wet.
Every session became a detailed and very transgressive BDSM session that ended with her being gone, and me being sweat-covered and cumming hard. You asked! The one session I turned into a full story, has never been published online, and don’t see it ever making it there.
Although, I have shared it with some who asked me nicely enough, that I felt I could trust. It’s a story of ultimate love and a slave willing to give everything to please her Mistress. And how are you doing? Deep breath…
Current WIP? I wish there was one! I screw myself so badly at times with this. There’s a part three to Bound To A Stranger, which is co-written with J.D. Laydon. Plus Quinn Blueheart and I are working on a refreshing of our Spy on Spy series of The Mysterious Case of Agent Erotica vs. Domina Black. It originally had 16 parts and we’ve added five more. These will republished on Medium, and posted for the first time on Substack, hopefully soon.
I have a book in the works called Final Bondage Beginner where College Roommates are playing together for the first time, at least first time for the Mistress, as the Slave guides her through the process. Really want to finish this, but refuse to rush it, since it’s been a while since I published a new book. Don’t want to mess up.
Then there’s everything going on with Substack where I want to write so much! Another Santiago story is in the works, along with Sister Janice prequels, can’t forget Drunk Aunt Carol, Mikey’s Sister, Barbara and Henry, Alex the BDSM Bear, Sissy stories and more. I could and would so write fulltime if I could afford it.
My mind is full and luckily, I’ve only once experienced writers block, with Bath Time Betty saved me from. Wow! I’m really going long here. Did I mention I even have ideas I want to add to the Great Submission Hundo Expansion series started by Steve?
I should let you and everyone else get going, other than that guy who I tricked into handcuffing, or should I say cock and ball cuffing, himself to the end of the bar. I mean, he won the bet, right? Don’t want to take that away from him.
Thank You so much for your questions, and Thank You to everyone who made it this far into my rambles. Z
Zote: A Quick Disclaimer – I am not the Dirty Blonde girl posted here. She is my Human Emoji, and expresses my feelings better than I could without her. If she makes you as wet as she does me, it’ll all make sense. Z
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