For the last 25 years I've been a professional writer of erotica. For at least a few of those years I made my whole living at it, mostly writing custom erotica for a handful of fringe fetishes, including vore, giantess, transformation, living statue, time stop, and so on. Ask me anything.
Let's see if Sup Forums still has an appetite for OC, or if it's nothing now but meme cancer, frogposting, and edgy middle schoolers.
Shitposting will be ignored.
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How do you actually make most of your money? commissions? Give me a rundown of your revenue stream please.
I get paid by the word so I just put down a lot of stuff and make them pay me. Sometimes I just change our names and other bullshit and call it original.
What's the most profitable kink?
Is there a central site where authors gather to be commissioned for this kinda shit, or do I have to waste my time hunting you down one by one to give money to?
did you write for magazine or anything?
you ever meet these freaks?
how much per word?
I have to hand it to you, I have no idea how you came up with this shit.
There's two ways you can go: you can either fight for a tiny slice of a huge market, or you can try to get a big slice of a tiny market. I chose the latter mostly. You can make a *huge* amount of money by writing for the mainstream (a single story in Penthouse can pay $3k-$4k) but you're competing with a lot of other writers, and you'll have to wait up to two years to get paid (since they pay on publication).
I decided to focus on much smaller markets, which meant doing more work for less pay, but there was much less competition. And yes, most of my money came from private commissions (I've had clients who have been with me more than 20 years), but I also wrote for some smaller publications like Giantess Magazine and Tremendous Tit Tales (which paid peanuts -- but paid on acceptance).
have you ever had a request to write pornographic murder if so can i see and example
Wife swapping stories, after that It's mostly gay jackoff circles. Really lame stuff I wish I had more requests for furry stuff. Furry is my favorite.
I know there's a market for weird fetish porn, but who the fuck pays for written porn? I thought erotic texts were something for chicks?
There's no one most-profitable kink. The more people who have a kink, the more competition there is for the market. For me, personally, the giantess fetishists were my biggest consistent customers. Or at least, they used to be. The market in the last five to ten years has grown large enough that there's a lot of competition now, so I've had to find even smaller markets to cater to.
How much do you make in an average year?
Mostly autistic males buy my stuff. Wayyyyy too much sleeping sister stories.
Sorry, you're not going to find this stuff in the Writer's Market. You need to find the places online where the fetish community gathers -- and these change all the time -- and become part of it. What I do is release free stories until people recognize that I produce professional-quality, reliable, timely work. Once I start doing commissions for people, word gets around and people come to me. I don't tend to need to do much advertising.
My main job is at Wendy's making 17 an hour the stories generally pull in about 400 a month.
Wow I would have thought giantess would be pretty niche.
Alright OP, if youre real ive got a fallen-level OC request.
Worm-like parasites infecting women and turning them into mind controlled lesbian hosts bent on consuming every female on the planet.
At the risk of sounding straightforward, what would you quote for a short story? (for a kink you've never worked in, perhaps?)
For you free just pm me your email.
How do you write?
Is it just sit down and then everything in one go, or do you plan plots out ahead?
And what program do you use to write in?
When you say "make a living" are we talking you eat ramen every night out of your shitty studio apartment or what? I don't believe being a "professional writer of erotica" provides any kind of real lifestyle unless you own one of the sites that gets hundreds of thousands of viewers to it
As I mentioned, I've written for a number of smaller fetish zines. They paid poorly, but it wasn't difficult work, and they paid on acceptance. For a writer, knowing I could write X number of words and get paid a guaranteed sum of money on a specific date meant I could pay my rent. That's huge when you're a freelance writer.
Currently I charge $100 US per 2000 words (minimum 2000 words), but for that price you get polished, professional quality work to your specifications, edited until the client is completely, 100% satisfied with the result. And I try to keep my clients happy by giving them more than they pay for -- which is why I've had some clients for 20 years. I know more about their kinks than their spouses do.
I strictly write using my fingers in Coleco Vision all in one go it keeps me aware of my humble beginnings. I hope this answers your questions.
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Sure, all the time. Giantess fetishists, for example, are totally into stories about people getting squished to death under a giant woman's feet or devoured alive or smothered in a giant woman's vagoo. Part of the reason why I tend to specialize in fantasy fetishes is to avoid legal problems; police are never going to come knocking on my door because I wrote a story about an inch-tall man getting shoved up a horny woman's asshole.
Just FYI to people posting questions, there's shitposters in here pretending to be me. You can pretty well tell who they are, since they're pretty stupid and not especially literate.
Were you ever commissioned to write dismemberment porn or something that includes violence? Do you ever need to distance yourself from all the disturbing stuff?
Well, most of my clients are married professionals with a lot of disposible income, but with hard-to-please sexual fetishes. For instance, if getting swallowed alive, snake-style, by a woman and then carried around in her belly is what gets you hard, you can't just walk into a convenience store and buy a magazine of wank stories. And some people have *very* specific fetishes. Unless they write it themselves, there's just no way to find anything to get them off. There's one guy, for example, who commissions a lot of people in the giantess field to produce videos and stories involving women transforming other women into garbage bags full of trash, and then swallowing those garbage bags. You know the only way this guy is going to find material for his needs is if he pays to have it produced himself.
Do you personally have any unusual fetishes?
These days I write erotica mostly as a sideline, but in the years when I made my whole living at it, I'd earn about $20k-$25k a year. That doesn't sound like a lot, since you'd be earning more as an assistant manager at McDonald's, but it's pretty good money for a writer in these post-literate days.
No, giantess has moved into the mainstream. The Internet was a godsend for a lot of these fringe fetishes, since most people thought they were all alone until discovering groups of people all around the world shared their interest. The giantess fetish is in fact so large now that they're often given fan service in movies the way they used to give foot fetishists fan service 20 years ago.
There was actually a jean company who made a terrible mistake by trying to take advantage of the giantess fetish community. They started an add campaign around a 200 foot tall model who did a commercial and had her own Twitter feed. What they didn't expect was having their social media swarmed by horny men posting a non-stop tidal wave of disgusting sexual propositions about climbing up her pussy. They quietly shut down the whole campaign and pretended it never happened.
I'd be happy to write that story for you on commission, user. If you give me an email address I'll contact you with samples of my work and we can make a deal.
My usual rate is $100 US per 2000 words. And for that you get a professionally-polished story edited to your exact specifications, and edited until you are completely satisfied. You're then free to do whatever you like with the story, whether that means keeping it to yourself or posting it online for others -- as long as you don't try to resell it. I retain copyright on all my work for that reason.
Not bad. I'm almost considering, but am also poor.