Royalroad.com is how a lot of litrpgs make their start… Not sure if they do smut. Smut I feel like the best avenue would be phone apps because there are a whole apps dedicated to that like wattpad or webtoon.
Not sure about writing, but if you want to get into drawing that kind of stuff you just open a Twitter/Deviantart/Tumblr, post non-commission work initially until you have a bit of a following and people asking to commission you will come themselves eventually. I worked that field for about half a year while I had nothing to do because I dropped out of college, and in that time got up to like 100k followers and a solid 400$ a month without advertising it much. I probably could have squeezed out more if I tried, but I didn’t really feel like it haha
I have honestly thought about trying to make money this way. Maybe I’m just good at talking myself out of trying, but I found one good reason to think it’d be harder than it seems.
People say the book can even be bad, and they’re half right. It’s genre fiction, and those have a very specific style and convention unique to each genre. It’s not just allowed to be bad, it’s supposed to be - and in a very specific way. You need to be familiar with that to write to the audience’s expectations. Being too unique and creative is not a good thing.
In other words, if you want to have any success writing gay minotaur smut, you have to first read enough gay minotaur smut to understand it. I couldn’t force myself to read it, not because I’m judging, but I’m just not into it. It bored me too much and felt like a huge slog. But if you can read it you can write it, and the process of familiarizing yourself with that market should also help you figure out how to get discovered for that genre.
Weird zoophilia smut makes BANK, and it doesn’t even have to be good
How would one get commissioned for this? Not even asking for a friend, I wouldn’t mind writing some crap if it pays my house off a decade sooner.
Royalroad.com is how a lot of litrpgs make their start… Not sure if they do smut. Smut I feel like the best avenue would be phone apps because there are a whole apps dedicated to that like wattpad or webtoon.
They have rules against smut so the authors writing there link their patreon and post the non-smut chapters.
Not sure about writing, but if you want to get into drawing that kind of stuff you just open a Twitter/Deviantart/Tumblr, post non-commission work initially until you have a bit of a following and people asking to commission you will come themselves eventually. I worked that field for about half a year while I had nothing to do because I dropped out of college, and in that time got up to like 100k followers and a solid 400$ a month without advertising it much. I probably could have squeezed out more if I tried, but I didn’t really feel like it haha
I have honestly thought about trying to make money this way. Maybe I’m just good at talking myself out of trying, but I found one good reason to think it’d be harder than it seems.
People say the book can even be bad, and they’re half right. It’s genre fiction, and those have a very specific style and convention unique to each genre. It’s not just allowed to be bad, it’s supposed to be - and in a very specific way. You need to be familiar with that to write to the audience’s expectations. Being too unique and creative is not a good thing.
In other words, if you want to have any success writing gay minotaur smut, you have to first read enough gay minotaur smut to understand it. I couldn’t force myself to read it, not because I’m judging, but I’m just not into it. It bored me too much and felt like a huge slog. But if you can read it you can write it, and the process of familiarizing yourself with that market should also help you figure out how to get discovered for that genre.
You write a book, then you self publish it on Amazon or whatever. Then you hope enough people read it to make it worth the time you spent writing it.
I’m gonna guess there are popular communities for this, just like AO3 for fanfics. Where one should advertise their creation.