#working writer

[linkablewritingadvice]

How do I make money writing fiction?

It's difficult, but possible, to be a working writer. There are a few avenues:

1.) Traditional publishing royalties

If you have written a manuscript and successfully queried an agent, they will connect you with a publisher and help you negotiate royalties and other contractual benefits. Most people who make a living writing are being traditionally published like this.

2.) Self publishing profits

If you are a prolific writer who can put out consistent, frequent work in a profitable genre niche, you can make good money in self publishing. This takes a lot of work and know-how in terms of marketing and other skills, but it is possible.

Since the success of a self publishing career relies heavily on consistent output and building an audience, some successful self-publishing "writers" are actually a shared pen name. Multiple writers with a similar style write under the same name, but only take the profits from their books.

3.) Contracted ghostwriting

If you're more focused on making money with your writing skills and less worried about accolades or a career based on your name, you can make money writing for other people based on outlines they provide. You will need to start out with a solid portfolio of sample work in the genre(s) you're selling.

You can find ghostwriting positions listed on websites like Upwork or Fiverr, and there are some companies that specifically hire ghostwriters. Always do your due diligence about any company you get involved in, and make sure you're not taking underpaid gigs.

4.) Commissioned work

If you are able and willing to write erotica and fetish content, you can find lucrative commission opportunities. People will hire you to write a customized story based on whatever they want, and since there is a taboo around this, they are often willing to pay a premium.

It can be complicated to try and market or monetize this sort of content given the current state of internet regulations. You'll need to find the websites and forums where people who sell and buy this sort of work are currently hanging out.

5.) Serialized subscriptions

If you are able to build an audience that wants to read your work, and you're good at putting out consistent work with great cliffhangers, you can get people to sign up for a paid subscription to your work on a platform like Patreon, Substack, or Wattpad.

This is very difficult to do, and requires a lot of skill and discipline around output, marketing, lead magnets, etc.

Note: this all applies only to longform fiction, like novels. There is almost no money in things like poetry and short stories. Even if you were to win lots of contests or get published in paying journals, it is nearly impossible to make a living on things like that.

Check this list or this one for writing contests with cash prizes.

Check this list or this one for literary magazines that pay.

If you are a talented writer who just needs cash, there are lots of other ways to make money writing in the nonfiction sphere, from grant writing to technical writing to blog and SEO content.

[tjalexandernyc]

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Check your subscription if you need Word for work! Don't get duped into paying for something you might not even want

[inkskinned]

please i love you i'm begging you bring back suspension of disbelief bring back trusting the audience like. i cannot handle any more dialogue that sounds like a legal document. "hello, i am here to talk to you about the incident from a few minutes ago, because i feel you might be unwell, and i am invested in your personal wellbeing." "thank you, i am unwell because the incident was hurtful to me due to my childhood, which was bad." I CANT!!!!

do you know how many people are mad that authors use "growled" as a word for "said"? it's just poetics! they do not literally mean "growled," it's just a common replacement for "said with force but in a low tone." it's normal! do you hear me!! help me i love you please let me out of here!!!

[beezerious]

What's the correct way to go about sending your editor your edits back. Like am I disrespectful if I don't approve of whatever the fuck it is you had to say? Picking an editor is like picking a therapist in terms of meshing well and all that other shit. You're imposing your writing voice on someone when you edit their work whether you acknowledge that or see it or not. If our voices dont match or mesh well whats the point of working together? especially if you claim to love my work but make edits that don't stay true to original intent. Your edits have to make the intent shine brighter. you are supposed to be pulling the feeling out of me into a vessel that could've been crafted by my own hands. not morph it into a product of your own design after being merely loosely inspired by my own shit.

[deadlypoetacademia]

[neil-perrys-suicidal-tendencies]

REBLOG POSTS❗❗ COMMENT ON FICS❗❗COMPLIMENT FANART ❗❗LEAVE LITTLE NOTES IN THE TAGS❗❗ BOOKMARK FICS YOU LIKE❗❗ TELL AUTHORS WHAT YOU LIKED ABOUT THEIR FICS❗❗COMMENT ON DECADE OLD FICS ❗❗ADD YOUR OWN ANALYSIS IN LONG POSTS❗❗ENGAGE❗❗ INTERACT❗❗ BUILD A COMMUNITY ❗❗

While people don't work for engagement, it certainly doesn't do any harm..

[paradoxicalpaldeann]

hello writers.

[bloodybellycomb]

One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.

[itsscaredycat]

and they lived happily ever after 🥲🙏

[rs-hawk]

You get a pet tentacle as a "gag gift" for your birthday. You have no idea why your friends thought the little mass with a tentacle would make you laugh, but it didn't. Of course though, you don't want to be mean to it, so you take it home, trying to make it comfortable. You don't understand that by taking it home, now it thinks you've chosen it as your mate.

Once you're asleep, it expands, filling your bedroom with all of its tentacles. The first one to reach you has a plant like appendage, which spritzes you with an aphrodisiac that will also help you properly incubate its eggs. You groan, wiping the droplets from your face. There's already a hot pulsing between your legs. Without thinking much about it, still being half asleep, you kick off your blanket, eager fingers rolling your clit and stuffing into your hole.

Your tentacle pet stops to watch you, excitement building within it. Its mate is putting on a show for it! You must really want it! After a few moments, it can't stand it anymore. Two more tentacles reach for you, attaching to your nipples. That's when you start to realize what's going on, but you're so desperate now for release and to be stuffed you're almost crying.

Its suckers suck and pull on your nipples, making you moan and whimper. More tentacles wrap around your arms, pulling your hands away from your dripping hole. You let out a tiny whine of protest. The tentacles spread your cunt wide, looking at you clench around nothing, your wetness soaking your bed. Its breeding tentacles pulsing already.

You start to whine and beg for it to fuck you, wiggling your hips as more tentacles restrain you, making sure you're secure. Finally, one starts sucking on your clit, making you cum almost instantly. Despite your finish, your cunt is still eager to be stuffed and filled.

"Please, please," you beg it, lifting your hips up slightly.

Your pet is more than happy to comply, stuffing a thick tentacle into your eager hole. A moan escapes from your lips, your eyes half lidded from pleasure. It thrusts in and out of you, slowly depositing eggs directly into your womb. It doesn't even matter to you as you feel the weight in your body. You just need the tentacles to keep pleasuring and fucking you.

[whatkindofnameisella]

can you believe that we have fanfiction. that we have websites dedicated to fanfiction. that there is a place that you can go and read tens, hundreds, thousands and thousands of pieces of writing that strangers have made. people who are not "writers". people who come home at the end of the day and have feelings and say, i am going to put that into words. i am going to share those words. short, long, sweet, sad, horny, funny, wonderful words. we are all just human and we all love to make and remake and share that with others. can you believe that.

[author-mandi-bean]

On structuring a story.

Full Disclosure: Every Tuesday night, I go to a local dive bar (though it's reimagining itself a coastal, casual dining) with six very good friends -- some of the best friends I've ever had, as it turns out.

Artwork by Paul Pot The Backstory Full Disclosure: Every Tuesday night, I go to a local dive bar (though it’s reimagining itself a coastal, casual dining) with six very good friends — some of the best friends I’ve ever had, as it turns out. Almost every week, without fail, we witness some bizarre or entertaining or hilarious or insane behavior. And without fail, my friends tell me to write it…

[guzhufuren]

Support and uplift chinese queer creators and their fight. There is hope for an even better tomorrow.

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[kiplex]

You really do think Caleb was a dog in his past life.

Here you are, on your bed dying from the most excruciating period cramps you think you've ever had in your entire life and Caleb has his head on your uterus.

It's honestly your fault for saying the hot water bottle wasn't hot enough, and… probably yelling at him too in the process. He panicked, you could see the gears turn in his head before he made you lay down on the bed and then planted his head on your stomach. “There!” He said triumphantly, if he had a tail you're sure he'd be wagging it, he looks so stupidly proud of himself as he nuzzles into lower abdomen. “You always say ‘I'm so insufferably hot’ when we cuddle at night, so I'm your hot water bottle now.”

You sigh and Caleb's head rises and falls with your breath, you can't be mad at him, not when he's giving you those big puppy dog eyes. “If it gets uncomfortable, I'm banishing you to the couch." You mumble, relenting finally. Caleb's eyes light up and he nods into your stomach. "I'll be gentle, I promise.” Your hand runs through his hair as he places a kiss on your tummy letting out a boyish giggle. He's far too pleased with himself. You can practically hear his phantom tail smacking against the bed from how happy he was to be helping, and being this close to you.

...

Yeah you're sure Caleb was a dog in a past life.

You can find my master list here

[mangomantises]

like it's the first time

i actually can't get over this show no matter how hard i try