The Smutlancers

Author: Kayla Lords

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Blogging

Sharing Our Shit for a Long Time: e[lust] 100

Photo courtesy of Wriggly Kitty Welcome to Elust 100– The only place where the smartest and hottest sex bloggers are featured under one roof every month. Whether you’re looking for sex journalism, erotic writing, relationship advice or kinky discussions it’ll be here at Elust. Want to be included in Elust #101 Start with the rules, come back December 1st to submit something and subscribe to the RSS feed for updates!   ~ This Month’s Top Three Posts ~ He’s Out of My League Pink Hair, Don’t Care! I’m a feminist but… ~ Featured Post (Molly’s Picks) ~ Pain Sluts and...

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Smutlancer Life

8 Things I Learned at My First Sex Writing Conference

As of the date I’m writing this, we’re five months away from Eroticon – a UK-based conference for anyone who writes about sex or smutty things in general. If you’ve spent anytime around Smutlancer, you can tell I’m a fan of the event. It wasn’t my first business conference to attend, but it was the first one as a sex blogger, and I can still feel it’s impact on my life and career as a sex blogger/writer/podcaster. If you’re writing about sex – fiction, nonfiction, or journalism – you need to consider conferences like Eroticon. BDSM Writers Con is on...

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Erotic Authors / Writing

Do You Really Have to Write Every Single Day?

Pick a writer’s resource, any resource. Someone (or several someones) will tell you to write every single day. Set a time. Never miss it. If you do, you might as well quit now. Fuck. That. Shit. In the time I’ve spent with and around sex bloggers and writers, I know how easily we beat ourselves up over every single thing. Did we use the correct pronouns? Were we inclusive enough? Are we promoting safety without yucking on anyone’s kink? And that’s before we worry we’re not having enough of the right kind of sex. Wondering whether you’re writing enough, and...

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Writing

Spreading Smutty Love for #SOSS – Volume 1

6/22/20 Edit: A few links were removed because the owner of those sites is someone I no longer feel comfortable linking to. In the world of writing or creating any content about sex, a few things are true… We won’t all agree on what’s sexy or good. It’s a small community so it pays to be kind to each other. The big platforms love our ability to create connection and activity but hate admitting sex and smut exist on their platforms. It’s because of this last one that Patreon cracked down on pornography and sex work but that’s not all....

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Smutlancer Life

Don’t Complain, Create Something Instead

I spend a lot of time on Twitter, probably too much, indulging in my love of people-watching. Basically, I’m a lurker. And lately. I’m watching people who I know have platforms criticizing things they don’t like over and over again.  Sometimes we can’t change a situation until enough of us talk about why it’s a problem. (Fuck, sometimes even then we’re stuck with it – I’m looking at you Twitter. All we want is an edit button!) Other times it’s much easier to bitch than it is to do the work. It’s this that drives me to distraction. Why? Because...

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Books

Book Review: Enjoy Sex: A Practical and Inclusive Guide

If you’re going to write about sex, sexuality, gender, relationships, and/or the issues associated with any of it, I believe it’s necessary to learn as much as you can. One way I love to educate myself is through reading. Every so often, I’ll share a book I’ve read and why you might want to read it, too. Affiliate links are included in this post. If you click an affiliate link and buy something from the site, I make a small commission and buy a little more coffee. Technically, I reviewed this book on my personal website in August 2017 so...

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Sex Bloggers/Sex Toy Reviewers / Writing

Writing About All the Sex: Smut vs. Sex Education

Can you write smut and sex education pieces? I’ll give away the answer to the question…yes, you can. Okay, we’re done here, right? Problem solved! Well, not quite. Choosing to write only erotic fiction or some form of non-fiction is one thing. Believing you can’t (or shouldn’t) is quite another. As someone who routinely does both, I promise it’s possible. The outside vanilla world already has enough misconceptions about sex writing. We don’t need to internalize any other false narratives for ourselves. Writing both requires slightly different muscles and ways of thinking, but once you learn how to shift between the...

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Freelancers / Making Money

Why You Need Multiple Streams of Income

Relying on a single source of income comes in a variety of forms –  affiliate sales for a single company, offering sponsored posts, working with a single client. The danger, when you only have one way to make money is that when (rarely if) that income dries up, you’re stuck. You have no other money coming in. Diversifying your revenue streams takes work, and it definitely doesn’t happen overnight. But once you create more than one way to make money, you can better (although not always perfectly) weather any financial loss. What Multiple Streams of Income Looks Like My method...

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Blogging / Erotic Authors / Sex Bloggers/Sex Toy Reviewers

6 Ways to Find a New Audience with Old Blog Posts

In the early days of your blog, a new reader might be curious enough (or fall in love quickly enough) that they’re willing to comb through your archives. The longer you publish content, though, the less likely that is to happen. So today, after a year or two, or like some of us five plus years, most people who find your website now probably won’t go back and re-read everything. But that old content – even if not as well-written as your current stuff – has value. It can help you connect with more people. It can convince someone to...

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Smutlancer Life

Patreon Turns Against NSFW in a Big Way

My plan had been to add Patreon to the ongoing “How to Make Money” series as a viable option for most sex writers and creators to build an income from your work. I’ve used and loved Patreon for a long time, and although I disliked their stance on not allowing NSFW creators to show up on search, at least they gave us a space to earn money doing what we love. When PayPal threatened to shut them down for working with us in 2015, I received plenty of communication and what felt like genuine empathy from Patreon. Now…things have changed....