Hey everyone, it's my first blog post here. Kind of fishing for some opinions and stuff.
First off, I've been writing ABDL fetish fiction for years. I'm also a reader of such fiction, and found a great deal I enjoyed. I also found that much of it on Amazon was crap. Eventually I started reading more CD/TS type fiction and started writing more of that.
About a two years ago I wrote something called "Re-Education Camp" set in a fascist America about 30 years in the future. In the story protesters are being rounded up and placed in re-education camps, where gender and ideology are slowly warped. It's about 40,000 words.
The book has one problem, well it has lots of problems, but one major problem. It features lots of really goofy ABDL content. If I were to go through and strip out all that stuff then I think it could be a pretty powerful Sci-fi exploration of our current insane times.
The other thing is money. I never thought about money when I wrote, then I finally finished a longer book and for an experiment put it on Amazon kdp, and much to my surprise, it sells. It's not much, but still it means so much to me.
Anyway, thanks for all the support on my stories!
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I think you have a couple goals you have to balance. One goal is telling the story that you want to tell — which is mostly what we all do here with the free stories. Obviously, it’s important to all of us. You like ABDL fetish stories, so you can achieve this goal by leaving your story alone.
The other goal is maximizing readers, whether that is for the satisfaction derived from “kudos” and comments, or from sales that help you pay for food. And there, you have to think about what “sells.” There’s a market for dystopian stories, though it’s probably smaller than the market for happy stories. There’s a market for fetish stories, though I’m guessing it’s mostly limited to people who share the fetish. How much do those two audiences overlap? Because that overlap represents the potential market. The maximization of sales goal might push you towards removing the fetish elements that might limit the audience.
To use an analogy, when I posted a fanfic that was a TG take on The Matrix, I thought it would do well, since so many people enjoyed the movie. But, the universe of BC readers who enjoyed The Matrix was still just a subset of the BC readers who would give one of my stories a try, so the “market” for the story was actually more limited than the market a non-fanfic story would have. Having said all that, I really liked the story, and over time it’s gotten plenty of readers. It just took a bit longer.
— Emma
Thank you.
Thank you.
So here's the thing. For most of my life I've been obsessed with the ABDL fetish and dealt with alot of shame. I've gone back and forth between acceptance and denial. About six months ago I seemed to break, I basically tried to incorporate into my life as much as possible and make peace with it. Oddly that lead to deeper acceptance of my gender, which led to counseling and eventually hormones. Suddenly for almost my entire life I have no interest in ABDL and no interest in those types of stories.
So the heart of my story "Re-education Camp" is the slow social "reprograming" of dissidents into model women to serve as wives for a regieme that is mostly composed of "incell" type nut jobs. Take the fetish stuff out and it suddenly becomes a marketable book I think.