What keeps you coming back for more

[spikespen]

I've recently started publishing my erotica on the amazon store ( search Emma Sweetz)

I have 5 books out, the first 4 were incest related but now I'm moving on to do some interracial to just spice it up.

What I'm basically trying to find out is what keeps customers coming back for more?

I mean once you've read a story about a girl having sex with a black guy what is it that gets you to read more stories about other girls having sex with a black guy?

this might be the 10 million dollar question I'm asking, but I just want to make my stories good enough for customers to pay for them, and want to pay for more of them.

 

[sr71plt]

How many people do you know who only want sex once?

 

[PennLady]

Why do people keep going to certain types of movies? Or concerts? People like what they like. If they like romance, why would they read only one? Or mysteries? Or post-apocalyptic novels? Or whatever?

 

[lovecraft68]

I've recently started publishing my erotica on the amazon store ( search Emma Sweetz)

I have 5 books out, the first 4 were incest related but now I'm moving on to do some interracial to just spice it up.

What I'm basically trying to find out is what keeps customers coming back for more?

I mean once you've read a story about a girl having sex with a black guy what is it that gets you to read more stories about other girls having sex with a black guy?

this might be the 10 million dollar question I'm asking, but I just want to make my stories good enough for customers to pay for them, and want to pay for more of them.

I think a good cover, accurate description, and of course a good story.

Also what I have noticed is that similar stories bring them back.

I have a bunch of "pseudo incest" stories there and I notice when one sells usually it starts a reaction and they all do.

Its good to have a mix, that way you attract more people with different tastes.

I currently have the incest, some BDSM and a few menage types of stories.

As for how many times will a person read....?

Well if someone has a kink they want more of it. The trick is to try to make your stories different.

Sure its another black guy with a white girl, but where did she meet this one? Maybe the sex is rough in one and romantic in another.

There are a ton of step incest stories there and they sell well, so how many step mother stories will they read? Answer is a lot of them.

 

[Euphony]

Even if it is a preferred fetish, it does have to be meaningfully different than the first.

I have often puzzled over the heavy fret people place on the first story their public reads. Yes, getting them in the door is critical but Ive always felt the SECOND story they read is where you make or break your relationship.

Personally, I give slack on a first story like I would a first date. Everythings new and different and Im trying to figure out if/where/how we can connect. If its awful, then of course Im out, But if its an okay of a time, Ill grant a second.

But heres where I get critical. It can't be a redo even if the first was out of the park. And if you use the same descriptors as you did the first time, Im not going on to a third. (one author I loved used "flaxen" so much I had to quit him/her. If there was a female in the story, I knew she was gonna be flaxen) If you look at the best (not the highest rated) authors here, they vary immensely even within the same rough framework. That takes skill. And as a reader I will ALWAYS reward skill.

 

[sr71plt]

Even if it is a preferred fetish, it does have to be meaningfully different than the first.

No, it doesn't. You folks are working this too hard. Readers/watchers will come back to the same sequence time and time again. And it will arouse them time and time again. They'll come back and read the same story or watch the same video time and time again, even, and get aroused each time. Use your noggins (starting with the original question).

 

[ILmonamour]

There are so many things, but what makes someone come back to YOU is what is important. Your writing style, flow of plot, character development, sex drive ... the list is long. Those are essentials for what brings me back for more from a single author. As for genre, or sub-genre, people have their fetishes and tend to ride them out.

 

[lovecraft68]

Even if it is a preferred fetish, it does have to be meaningfully different than the first.

I have often puzzled over the heavy fret people place on the first story their public reads. Yes, getting them in the door is critical but Ive always felt the SECOND story they read is where you make or break your relationship.

Personally, I give slack on a first story like I would a first date. Everythings new and different and Im trying to figure out if/where/how we can connect. If its awful, then of course Im out, But if its an okay of a time, Ill grant a second.

But heres where I get critical. It can't be a redo even if the first was out of the park. And if you use the same descriptors as you did the first time, Im not going on to a third. (one author I loved used "flaxen" so much I had to quit him/her. If there was a female in the story, I knew she was gonna be flaxen) If you look at the best (not the highest rated) authors here, they vary immensely even within the same rough framework. That takes skill. And as a reader I will ALWAYS reward skill.

I started a thread awhile back about cliche's in porn. Basically I do like to try to be different(for instance all my incest stuff is 15 to30K I have no wham bam strokers and hoping to get a following that likes some plot with their taboo)

But in erotica more so even than other genres people have things they expect to see. The shy virgin, that somehow decides to have her first time be a gang band.

the nerd who's hung like a horse. Every daughter wants their step dad and reverse. Every married couple likes to swing, every woman will lick a pussy at the drop of a hat.

True these things seem overdone, but reality is the best words would be "tried and true" people want to eat the same dish over and over so make an effort to be somewhat different, but don't over think it.

End of the day we're writing smut, not changing the world, just relax and have fun with it.