Fair enough; could always do other types of stories or audios? I love your stuff but im always lacking in a good solid idea.

Hmm... I mean, I could try branching out to other fetishes and go into nonfetish writing. The issue, though, is getting into those spaces and figuring out how to get my writing seen by those spaces. And thank you, I appreciate it ;w;

no problem; youre always welcome to poke me c:

Writing in general is tough gig. Don't be afraid to use your talents for other projects. Just keep practicing your craft and don't let the lulls overwhelm you.

AAHH THANK YOU SO MUCH, it’s been forever! ;w;
And I do plan on continuing, even though it’s tough. It’s what I love to do, so I’d rather keep at it, even if it comes in different forms x3

The pain is real.

Truly ;w;

Writing is tough but don’t be afraid to write what you want there will always be people who appreciate your story’s.

That’s true, I’m grateful for the amount of people who like to read my stuff, it makes it worthwhile x3

It sucks to hear that writing isn't sustainable for you, despite the great effort and talent you put into your works. I would love to give you some helpful advice, but I am not familiar with the economics of freelance work. I hope you find a way to make things work out.

Hopefully I’ll find a way to make it work better. Again I appreciate all the people who read my work already, that in and of itself is amazing. Still, if possible I’d love to figure out how to make writing work full time x3

Selling writing artwork tends to be a lot harder than selling drawn artwork. Especially if it's in a specific fetish like fatfur. Written artwork tends to be a somewhat forgotten and even unsupported form of art, which is heartbreaking for me, as writing tends to be my favorite form of describing fatfurs, stuffing, and teasing. While drawn artwork can show it, written artwork can almost in a way live it, and can actively show how a character would be a fatfur, either stuffing themselves silly with food to the point their bellies are distended, or even something as simple as fitting through a doorway or getting up from a couch. No form of art, aside from animation work, comics, or games can even come close to showing that level of detail. Im so sorry it's been tough, but don't give up on doing what you love. What you write is incredible in the way that it hooks the reader into the story with the sheer amount of detail in each and every part from the setting to even what the character is doing both emotionally and physically, and I honestly just want to say, every single story I've gotten from you has been my favorite comms I have gotten from anyone. Improvise, adapt, and overcome. I believe there's always a way to make something profitable. One idea I had was selling character design descriptions, with a backstory for lore, for if people wanted to have a new character, and can't think of any ideas for them. You can come up (or even have the person who is commissioning the character come up) with the obvious physical features like height, age, weight, species, fur/scale/feather patterns, fur/scale/feather color, and any special markings, and then with those descriptors, make a backstory for them. You could include stuff like likes, dislikes, their hometown setting, their time period whether it be the future or the past, their personality, and even a example of what their tone would sound like in a story. But that would be entirely up to you though.

Thank you for the kind words, I truly do appreciate it. Although it's tough I do want to continue writing as I find it fun to work with other peoples' ideas and make them into something tangible. It's true that writing can convey some things that other forms of art can't, it's also true that it's one of the more undersupported parts of the fandom (and of many fandoms from the looks of it). I could, as previously said in another comment, try to branch out to other niches, but gaining access to those niches would be the toughest part. Still, I'm determined to make something work, so I'll keep pursing this kind of writing and other forms of online writing~

I get that. I wanted to balance furry and non furry writing. . .but hardly any work comes through for fur stuff.

Definitely true. I think the main reason is that artwork is a much easier to digest medium. Still, it's worth it to write, even if it may not feel like it.

hi friend, as a fellow writer in a different fetish, I dug a little into your pricing, and have some advice.

First I want to say, you are under valuing yourself and should legit raise your prices.
I charge:
100 words: 2-5$
1 page: 10-25$
Character creation: 20-30$ (sometimes more for complexity)

myself. and hell, I'll be raising those prices soon; and I still get coms perfectly fine

You've fallen into the writer commissioner hole of focusing too hard on 100 words and charging by that, if you want to sustain yourself with writing, you need those prices up or else you'll find yourself working far below the minimal wage thresh hold ;3;

please, raise your prices, and you should see an immediate improvement on things

this being said, I'd also recommend broadening your horizon. I'm a size writer myself, but have spread out my scope to things like gore, bad ends, vore, fatfur, tf, and even vanilla sex. as long as things are on the table, you'll expand your audience and have more people willing to spend hefty amounts of money on you for what they want. It's ok to have hard no's, don't get me wrong! however, it's good to seem, "available" for negotiation, so more people can take interest.

Hmmm... So, to address the different parts here: In terms of raising my prices I actually just recently raised them from $2.50 per 100 words to $2.75 per 100 words. It's definitely not a big price increase by any means, yet it definitely feels like I've gotten less work this month as a result. Still, if I could I'd try to raise my prices. In terms of yours, it looks like you use a range to price things out, as well as use page count. If I may ask, how do you determine the range that your clients pay for when it comes to their stories?

In terms of broadening my horizons, I definitely wouldn't mind attempting to get into different fetish scenes to write for. I'm already thinking of changing my "do and do not" lists to include fanfic writing (I always feel awkward about writing about copywrite characters, but I can suck it up), and I could include sex in there as well (not on the list for the same reason). I think the bigger issue for that would be to try and make my way into those spaces, though it's definitely hard for me to reach out to other people and to try and interact. Still, it's a lot to think about, and I'll absolutely keep a lot of this in mind~

You'll notice an influx and drop of people buying your commissions as you raise your prices, true you may not have as many as you would have if they were lower, but you end up doing less work for the same amount of pay; which, with how everything is getting more expensive these days, Is a god send. I too once did the whole 100 words for 1$ thing and it was a *nightmare*. I found what worked, knew my worth, and pushed a solid price. Those who are serious enough to commission me will do so.

how I gauge how many pages I'll be writing:
so when a client comes to me to tell me what they want, I break it down into a crude outline, then I make main focus points that'll end up being paragraphs that tie the page together as filler between the crude outline; example
Customer wants
-happy pikachu
-pikachu gets fat
-pikachu falls asleep happily in bed

What I'll do is talk to them about things to give it a good flow and it'll come down to something like
-start story around a happy pikachu
-pikachu gets hungry
--pikachu hasn't eaten throughout the day
-Pikachu goes to a resteraunt to get food
-orders an extra fattenning burger
-Pikachu begins to eat and over indulge
-Slowly add more weight as they eat
-some plot point about being even hungrier
-expands fully and finishes eating their food
-Pikachu finds difficulty squeezing out the door but manages to do so
-Walking scene with body shaking and bouncing
-Pikachu gets home, good big stretch
-Goes right to bed and falls asleep.

At that point, I generally have an idea of how many paragraphs are going to be in the story. I take all my previous stories and find that I have a general average of around 4-5.5ish paragraphs per page outside of dialogue. So every 5 notches in the outline is thus a page. I count up how many pages it'll be, and decide a total based around who they are, what they're asking for, if I can upload the story anywhere or not, and how comfortable I am with the story; increasing and or decreasing the value as it comes. I've found this method to be generally accurate aside from around .5-1 full pages as of late with commissions.

Broadening horizons: those two things are definitely good things to open up your audience a bit more, as you'll find many furs just like a good vanilla sex scene. it's...different from fetish focusing writing, but if you can find what tickles the general public, you'll make it far. as for copyrighted characters, this can be a bit tricky. Be sure to do heavy research on what characters you're going to write, personality, how they'd generally respond to scenerios ...age... and figure out if it's something you personally feel comfortable writing, if it's something you cannot publicly share, it is understandable AND acceptable to charge a little more.

As for squeezing yourself into other kink spaces? honestly, you just have to create things for those genre's. An audience will eventually stumble upon it, and at first, you WILL notice a drastic number drop for such pieces; however, anyone wanting something personalized for something niche and out there, they'll gladly scoop up anyone who's willing to create things for it. Creating your own pieces for the field is your way of blindly telling people, "Hey, I'm willing to make this sort of thing on my own, so I'll definitely be willing to do it paid."



All these things take time and study, but, I know you'll do a banger of a job if you go forward with it <3

...I sincerely apologize for that wall I just dropped, but, I hope it all helps ;w;

It was a lot, but it's definitely helpful. In terms of the price increase stuff, I don't know how I would go about it. For my process, I take the commissioner's idea and most of the time try to either condense it or make it longer depending on the idea. From there I write a synopsis including the different sections before I get started. Looking through a recent story, each section took around 3-4 pages with some exceptions being longer or shorter than that, so I might want to look into trying to be more concise with my writing (which is hard when I really get into a piece). In terms of an immediate change I could make, I could look into doing a range of prices like you have here, going for something like you have ($2-5 per every 100 words or around $10-20 per page). I'm not too sure how it'll go since I'd have to figure out how people's ideas fit on that range, but it's definitely something to look into. The other stuff is just stuff I'll need to figure out on my own, to hopefully get commissions working in my favor. Thanks a ton for the advice, I truly do appreciate it~

ofcourse~ <3 we as writers don't exactly get much of a guide in terms of how to do commissions, so I know it can be a breath of fresh air when someone actually has some answers x3

I'm actually going to be increasing my prices in the near future x'D but like...it's all a matter of balance, and I'll know you'll figure out yours <3

Well I can at least tell you that you make extremely good stories :>

And I appreciate that immensely~