You mean you don't like her presentation? Yeah, you can probably learn more writing something and seeing what happens, as opposed to someone else telling you how to do it. I suspect there are some first-timers listening to her and taking notes. We're not really "commercial" here - some people have sold erotica, but I've heard it's not easy get that done. Have you tried it, because I haven't yet? It's certainly hard to make a full-time living from it or from any fiction writing.
Put it on Smashwords first and sometime later on Lit. Make whatever money you're going to make off it first and also make it not matter if someone swipes a Lit. version and publishes it themselves. You've already been there a long time ago and made whatever you're going to make out of it.
I was looking at the other way around, getting the rough edges off it in Lit given there's a lot more commentary and feedback here, before polishing it up for SW. I'm seeing orders of magnitude more engagement on Lit than on wattpad. I'm not looking to cash in, I'm just looking to have eighteen chapters gathered up into a book that you can load on a kindle, like what proper authors do ;-)
Joseph Conrad, actually, in The Heart of Darkness - from which Apocalypse Now was derived.
Sounds like a good approach to me, iron out the wrinkles in your work on Lit first. It's really quite easy to publish in e-book format on Smashwords and Amazon, but before you do it in earnest, make sure you're presenting a tidy product and using an appropriate cover. It seems to me that the return on ertica is very small, and the return on other genres is small. It's something to do for the feeling that you've optimised your writing in a quasi-traditional form than anything else. Like Woolworths - 'Pile it high and sell it cheap' if you want a useful return.
From the aspect of readers of particular genres investing in your stories here, "commercial" certainly applies. A $$$ equivalency could be found in Followers and Favorites.
There is definitely a place here for stories with content that doesn't merely "titillate" readers. From "Romance" to "Sci-Fi", you will find stories with minimal (if any) sexual content doing very well.
I had an idle idea of rolling out The Monogamists with chapters in between exploring FMC's abandonment by her family, etc. and putting that all into a longer piece. I stripped all that out here because, huh, backstory. It'd stand on its own as a novel, but I guess experience off-lit is like pissing in the wind. Say what you like about Laurel and the publishing process, but the fact that there's someone actually reading all this and approving it is a massive quality lift on what goes on elsewhere.
I agree. I've always felt that if nothing else, Laurel appreciates my work.
I received a thank you from her the other day, after I'd thanked her for quick work in fixing a glitch I'd made in a submission.
Their are certainly many different styles of writing here with different levels of sexual content. I've never published anything for pay, but one could use Lit as a testing-ground stories that will eventually (with modifications?) go into a pay site.
