Commissions and Rules · 6:09pm Jan 20th, 2016
Should I take them? I have been contacted in the past concerning them, though decided against it at the time, and would be tickled pink if people actually wanted me to do such. However, I would likely have a few ground rules.
1. No odd or disturbing fetishes (farting, watersports, soft/hard vore, scat), as I could not be serious enough to write them, which would detract from my ability to write them well, and that would be a disservice to the person paying for them. I have no experience with such fetishes, and frankly, just can't bring myself to write them.
2. I write when I can, as much as I can. If the one-shot story takes a month to write because of life or other projects, then it will take a month. I will update the commissioner as to how I am progressing when I determine I actually have made progress.
3. The commissioner will be fully involved in the story's progress, aka helping me with trouble spots or perhaps helping with small edits. I cannot be given a general idea and having people be dissatisfied because I took it in a different direction than what they had originally envisioned but never told me.
4. Payment would be whatever they think is fair until I determine an average rate for a story, perhaps based on length or how satisfied the customer is with the finished product.
Thoughts?
do you have a limit on length of stories commissioned?
Maybe you could also put up like a preliminary fee list, like for stories ranging from 3000 words or less you could have what you consider a fair amount like 10 bucks or whatever you consider fair. and the cost for stories of course varies upon you most, but putting up a list of a starting price that is negotiable could be a good idea
3700650 Hmm, I'd rather not do cost by just length, only because if I want to really put a shitload of effort into a short story, it won't stay short for long, and the originally 8K-word story might end up as 12K or more, and as such I'd hate to charge more because of it.
I think I'd charge on a scale of sorts, perhaps by combining genre, length, characters, setting and overall purpose (is it a romantic piece, a pure clop-fest, a dark look into the lives of everyday ponies, etc), as well as a few other factors.
Only do as much as you are willing, but I honestly think you should do this to help get over random writers blocks!