Hello, we like money (Now taking story commissions)

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JunctionCrew

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J: In the interests of getting an income, we're now looking for commissions for stories.

Feral Catgirl Colony Productions
Now Open for Commissioned Stories!

Pricing Information

- Basic Rate: 25$ per 1000 words

- Fight Scene Rate: +$15 per 1000 words; only applies to the fight scene itself.

-Sexual Content: +15$ per 1000 words.

-Detailed Sex Scenes: +40$ per 1000 words; this stacks with the modifier for general sexual content.

Fetish Price Modifier (stacks w/sexual content):
- Furries: Free!

- Bondage: +10$ per 1000 words.

- Other Fetishes: +15$ per fetish per 1000 words.

- Body Modularity/Dullahan: +25$ per 1000 words (we actually like it, but a constant boner makes writing difficult)

Setting Price Modifier:
- No Setting Specified: +0$

- Adleyverse: A 1950s-ish urban fantasy with no masquerade. Much more inclusive of assorted minorities than the actual 1950s. Our own IP. +0$

- Voidskipper: A science-fiction setting 8000 years in the future with rampant transhumanism and megastructures all over. Significant attention is paid to scientific accuracy. Our own IP. +0$

- Familiar Fandoms (Worm, Mega Man, Familiar of Zero, Cultist Simulator, Slay The Princess, Outer Wilds, Mass Effect, Star Wars, Halo, possibly others): +10$ per 1000 words.

- Fandoms we don't know well: Before allowing commissions, we want 100$ to fund detailed study of the setting in question.

- Fandoms We Don't Like: NO

- Custom Setting: Variable; subject to negotiation.

Editorial Modifiers:
- Additional Editing Passes: +0.5* price multiplier for each editing pass beyond the first.

- Private Story: *3 final price, after all other modifiers

Terms
- No generative AI is used in the writing of our stories; integrity aside, it's plainly shit at keeping track of characters and plot threads.

- Desired story length must be specified as part of the commission, maximum length of a single commission is 10000 words.

- A 25% down-payment is required to start work on a commission.

- The down payment will be refunded in full if the story is not complete within 30 days of commissioning.

- Payment is accepted by Cashapp, Paypal, and Ko-Fi.

- Unless you pay extra for the commissioned story to be kept private, it will be posted publicly upon completion. We want the publicity from people reading our stories.

Things We Won't Write
- We will not write anything portraying bigotry positively.

- We will not write anything portraying billionaires positively.

- We will not write anything portraying landlordry positively.

- We will not write anything portraying narcissists positively.

- We will not write anything portraying authoritarianism positively.

- We will not write snuff fiction.

- We will not write any story with both sexual content and underage characters. Not even if the two never meet; they can't be in the same story.

- We will not write any story with non-consensual sexual content. Mind-control and/or drugs do not count as consent. One party having authority or leverage over the other also muddies consent enough that we won't write it.
 

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Um....what?
I mean, sounds like a dream.

"I am interested in the job but we don't know the story of <Insert fandom here>. I need an hundred bucks to order some pizza and booze which we watch the anime- I mean to facilitate an optimal research environment as we view the fandom to get a good idea of the fanfiction you want to see written"
 

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I mean, sounds like a dream.

"I am interested in the job but we don't know the story of <Insert fandom here>. I need an hundred bucks to order some pizza and booze which we watch the anime- I mean to facilitate an optimal research environment as we view the fandom to get a good idea of the fanfiction you want to see written"
"I don't know a thing about life-guarding but if you pay me $500, I'll go visit a swanky pool suite in the Poconos for an hour, and..." ?
 

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J: In the interests of getting an income, we're now looking for commissions for stories.
Are these prices in Canadian, United States, Australian or some other fictional Dollars?
Feral Catgirl Colony Productions
Now Open for Commissioned Stories!

Pricing Information

- Basic Rate: 25$ per 1000 words
That is about the last price I was quoted (though that was "cents per word") so fair.
- Fight Scene Rate: +$15 per 1000 words; only applies to the fight scene itself.
How good are the fight scenes? Doubt they'd be worth it...
-Sexual Content: +15$ per 1000 words.

-Detailed Sex Scenes: +40$ per 1000 words; this stacks with the modifier for general sexual content.
Personally, I'd go +25$ per "mild" scene, +50$ per detailed scene and not worry about the word count.
Fetish Price Modifier (stacks w/sexual content):
- Furries: Free!

- Bondage: +10$ per 1000 words.

- Other Fetishes: +15$ per fetish per 1000 words.

- Body Modularity/Dullahan: +25$ per 1000 words (we actually like it, but a constant boner makes writing difficult)
Again, would probably just suggest a flat rate per scene or per project.
- Fandoms we don't know well: Before allowing commissions, we want 100$ to fund detailed study of the setting in question.

- Fandoms We Don't Like: NO
Some fandoms you couldn't even scratch the surface of for $100 (any 8-Man fandoms out there? 8-Man After is pretty easy to come by but the original cartoons are collector's items)...
And if the $100 is paid in advance but you don't like the fandom, is it refundable?
Things We Won't Write


- We will not write anything portraying billionaires positively.
Then you're cutting yourselves out of a huge chunk of revenue - the "Insta-Billionaire" "sudden billionaire/trillionaire/quadrillionaire" genre is huge, if PocketFM is any indication. (Heck, there was one my wife was listening to that wound up an Isekai/System/Instant Trillionaire/VAMPIRE story).
- We will not write anything portraying landlordry positively.
Can you define "landlordry" in context?
- We will not write any story with both sexual content and underage characters. Not even if the two never meet; they can't be in the same story.
Then where do those underage characters come from? Vat grown?
 

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I've been offering commissioned stories for about 20 years at 5 cents/word. The fact that I'm a.) still writing stories, and b.) people keep paying me, means I must be doing a hell of a job. And no, I don't charge for research. If I don't know the topic, I don't do the story. it's insane to believe you can "learn" something crash-course style, and be able to write a good story from it. You can't. Don't even attempt it.
 

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I've been offering commissioned stories for about 20 years at 5 cents/word. The fact that I'm a.) still writing stories, and b.) people keep paying me, means I must be doing a hell of a job. And no, I don't charge for research. If I don't know the topic, I don't do the story. it's insane to believe you can "learn" something crash-course style, and be able to write a good story from it. You can't. Don't even attempt it.
J: In our defense: this was a first-draft price list based on a near-total lack of feedback when we tried to get advice on doing it better. So we just put it out there, and hey, we got useful feedback. So at least we got something out of it.
 

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J: In our defense: this was a first-draft price list based on a near-total lack of feedback when we tried to get advice on doing it better. So we just put it out there, and hey, we got useful feedback. So at least we got something out of it.

You know, this reminds me of that old conundrum before we had AI doing maths for us.

If you didn't know the answer to a maths problem, dont ask for help. You do it wrong and post it online saying it is right.

SOMEBODY will come along and do it properly for you, and probably explain all the steps you messed up in the process
 

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J: In our defense: this was a first-draft price list based on a near-total lack of feedback when we tried to get advice on doing it better. So we just put it out there, and hey, we got useful feedback. So at least we got something out of it.
Alright, but please explain why people should be paying you to enrich your knowledge of a fandom. That doesn't sit well with me at all.
 

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L: We're tossing that idea, on account of people pointing out the questionable logic behind it.
And do you have a library of samples people can read? I don't know why this forum doesn't see fit to link users' forum accounts somehow with the main SH accounts.
 

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You know, this reminds me of that old conundrum before we had AI doing maths for us.

If you didn't know the answer to a maths problem, dont ask for help. You do it wrong and post it online saying it is right.

SOMEBODY will come along and do it properly for you, and probably explain all the steps you messed up in the process
Ah, Murphy's Law
 

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I'm not familiar with this group, but... yeah, you're probably not gonna have that much luck on the forums. Most of the people that use it are writers, not readers. There are some readers on here, but 25 dollars for standard fair when all you get is 1K words when you can write that much in less than an hour (based on the fact you're saying we, I'd assume there's multiple of you, so probably faster than that, even), is extreme. Honestly, I don't take submissions but I'd do that much for half that price. And in this economy, nobody's got the money for those prices for a fanfiction, especially when an action scene costs 40 bucks...
We will not write anything portraying billionaires positively.
Does this mean no Batman or Ironman? ?
 
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Who owns the copyright and distribution rights after the commission?

Who owns the rights to use the original characters of created in the commission?
 

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Who owns the copyright and distribution rights after the commission?

Who owns the rights to use the original characters of created in the commission?
Didn't even consider this, and it may not apply to this particular situation since I'm not super familiar with copyright law, but can they even legally charge for fanfiction? Technically you're making money off of someone else's product, which is most likely trademarked.
 
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