WIWAW - WhoreBnB

This short essay was inspired by the thread What I wrote and why: Fairytale of New York, which was posted in The Author's Hangout by StillStunned.

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WIWAW -- WhoreBnB

by Emily Miller

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INTRODUCTION

This article focuses on how I wrote WhoreBnB, and what the story is meant to be about; while recognizing that readers may of course bring their own interpretations. My intended audience is other authors, but there may be topics covered here which are also of interest to the general reader.

ADVISORY: The text contains mild spoilers for WhoreBnB throughout. If you haven't read it, may I suggest that you do that first. However, I have tried to be at least somewhat vague about the actual story plot here.

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BACKGROUND

At over 30,000 words, WhoreBnB is my seventh novella on Literotica. It was published, in the Mature category, on March 30 2025. At the time of writing, it is my most recent story.

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GENESIS

The idea for this novella was really just as simple as coming up with the silly domain name of WhoreBnB.com, everything else flowed from that. Rather amazingly to my mind, no such site exists, maybe a business opportunity 😊.

I've written quite a few serious stories recently. Given this, when I started out, I had a simple sex romp in mind. Then I thought that booking two weeks with a pair of kinda high-end sex workers would likely be expensive. That led to the idea of a wealthy, older couple. In turn, that suggested that maybe they had been swingers, but wanted a simpler, and more certain, approach to their hobby now.

That then led to some emotion leaking in. And, once the dam was cracked, the whole structure crumbled, and the resulting flood meant that I was back in my current milieu of plot and character motivation. Of course there is lots and lots of sex in this story, it's just that it is now actually a story, as opposed to a series of tableaus of people fucking. I think that adds to things, rather than distracting.

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DEVELOPMENT

I started writing without the end in mind. And - as typically happens to me - ideas began to occur as I wrote.

A first one was that one of the sex workers - Charity / Jessica - resembled the wife - Jackie - and the emotional possibilities that led to. This became a rather complicated arc, including - what I at least felt was - a moving reenactment of Scott and Jackie's first time making love back in college. And this leading to Scott having rather complicated feelings toward Charity, which ended up with him viewing her as being akin to Jackie's daughter in his rather overwrought brain.

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SEX WORK

A second idea was to introduce the sex workers as essentially slightly tropey and objectified characters, but then flip them into actually being normal people, with normal problems and motivations. It's a theme in my work to stress that sex workers are people too.

I know that being a prostitute can be akin to indentured servitude for many, and is a dangerous and difficult life for most. I breezily glossed over this, by having Candy and Charity at the high end of their profession, the relatively pampered playthings of the wealthy. I don't have either of the hostesses say it, but I hope it's apparent that they each have a great appetite for sex, and this led them to the idea of making money as escorts.

As I've said before, it's a story, not a documentary.

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CHARACTERS

The idea of the bubbly, sex-positive, anal-loving blonde - Candy / Sarah - having an underlying intellect, an occasional lack of self-awareness, and a general desire to do good? Well, do I have to spell it out 😬? Though I think of Candy being much prettier and more womanly than me. I'm also happy to say that my parents are alive, well, and - fingers crossed - blissfully unaware of both my sexual inclinations and history.

While Candy owes a little to the author, Charity isn't really based on anyone I know. There are a couple of places where her conversations with Candy recall those of my angel and demon girlfriends, Emma and Lily, but I tried to make Charity a distinct character. She certainly isn't a Lily clone. If anything, Candy is more reflective of my neurodivergence.

Speaking of distinct characters, one of my family members was an attorney (now retired) and some elements of Jackie's character (though not - as far as I am aware - her sexual proclivities) are loosely based on one of the women attorneys in his office. I recall, as a young girl, being deeply impressed and a little over-awed by her.

While Scott isn't based on anyone I know, his anxiety and the occasional slight suggestion of neurodivergence is more author insertion. How narcissistic am I to have even my male characters being versions of me 😬?

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HEIMLICH MANEUVER

One of the last things I thought about was Candy saving Scott. Of course it's an obvious deus ex machina, but it worked for me. This event linked to Candy's medical aspirations, and made Scott and Jackie's altruism at the end just a little less incredible.

I witnessed someone - no idea if they were a medical practitioner - performing an abdominal thrust on someone in a restaurant when I was in my early teens, and it made a lasting impression on me.

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BBC

I introduced Scott as having North African heritage, and then made sure this was pretty much incidental to everything else in the story. I believe that's how ethnic differences should be treated. People are just people. His skin color is as relevant to the story as Candy's hair color is.

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ENDING

Having finished the main part of Chapter Seven, I found that I was just as fond of Sarah and Jess as Scott and Jackie were (both couples having the same initials was entirely intentional), and decided to write them a fantasy HEA.

There was some more authorial channelling here, down to the outside venue and the aisle made of white chairs.

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THE FUTURE

Finally, although I don't say anything explicitly about this area in the text, I kinda hope all four remain intimate on occasion. I did my best to not have Scott and Jackie become surrogate parents. They are friends - I hope with benefits.

I'd hate to think that readers form the impression that somehow Scott and Jackie saved Sarah and Jess from a life of depravity. They do nothing of the sort, they help them financially. In my opinion, sex is a gift, and leopards don't change their spots after all.

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