The Only True Piece of Writing Advice Is That Smut Sells
I don’t even know if I’m being facetious or not.
There’s a reason the old saying goes, “Sex sells,” but I didn’t think it honestly applied to writing on the internet. I mean, sure, explicit fan fiction do wonders (Thanks, Master of the Universe a.k.a. Fifty Shades of Grey a.k.a. “For the love of God, can’t you read quality smut instead??”), yet it took me a long while to realize my own writing can tread that path to make more pennies even as I build my catalogue with other things I like to write.
Let me introduce you to the biggest flag on my stats page that told me writing smut might be the way to go:
If you’ve read “My Stepbrother’s Girlfriend” (which is only two months old), you might be scratching your head a little. “Uh, Jillian, we didn’t think that was actually very smutty compared to other things we’ve read on this site…” Yes, I know — but I think the combination of the title, the picture, and the tags helped make this story garner a bit of attention back in September.
