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I know, you hate to think of your writing as trash, but if done well, others will. If done poorly, your magnificent creation is just crap, shit, or garbage. Excellent trash can rise to the level of good shit, but you and your good shit will never be studied in English Lit. As for riches, sure, but it helps if you are wealthy when you start.

So, what are we writing: erotica, pornography, obscene literature...? Beauty and obscenity are in the eye of the beholder, but we need working definitions for the broad genre of adult fiction. How 'bout these:

Erotica: Trash that appeals to women. Sex from the emotional perspective: romance novels, soap operas, passionate stories of sexual love, which ends in a cuddle and a proposal.

Pornography: Trash that guys like. Sex from a sensual perspective: see it, touch it, taste it, smell it, wallow in it. Run it down, fuck it, flip it over, yank its legs apart, look at what ya done, then move on to the next bunny rabbit.

Obscene Literature: That which most well adjusted humanoids find offensive and not the least sexually stimulating. A curiosity, sometimes interesting, often pathetic, even amusing - the stuff of daytime talk shows and tabloids. Freaky shit. Kinky shit. If that's all you write, you write shit.

We could add a fourth which draws on all three by degree depending on the target audience.

Let's call this critter, Pornrotic Lit.

If you want to write good trash that appeals to a wide audience of male and female readers (mostly male) you must write Pornrotica, and you must learn the rules of effective writing or you simply will not communicate your ideas, themes, characters, or scenes. The reader depends on you to paint the picture. The reader is deaf, dumb, and blind. Many are stoopid, too. Look at what they read - trash.

The reader depends on the writer to make a story come to life. If done well, you can make a reader climax. Let's see Willy Shakespeare make a trucker cum in his sleeper cab! Of course, after the trucker cums, he'll toss your good shit in the trash. Shakespeare stays on a shelf.

I can't tell you what to write. The stories are up to you, but you may arrive at a formula - the right mix - by looking at your target audience. If eighty percent are male, twenty percent are female, and half of those are kinky mother-fuckers, you'll need a handful of porn, a smidgeon of erotica, and some kinky shit thrown in to spice the mother up. Not much of a formula, I agree, but I'm sure you get the idea. This idea goes to the root of effective writing:

KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

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