Stevita:
Build your audience first with free stories. You can always work on outlines and drafts for future premium stories and release them once you have a large enough following.

Build a social media presence outside of FF and post previews of your work. I like Tumblr because you can gain popularity pretty quickly just replugging things you like and posting your random feedist thoughts as well!

Once you feel like you have a loyal audience, it's time to offer some premium content!

I believe in you!

HueOrdner:
Hey I'm also kinda thinking about monetization in the future. I just started writing, so it might not be realistic right now, but what would you say is a big enough audience? Is there any number that comes up in your head?

Morbidly A Beast:
Are you saying I’m a troll because you thought I said a few comments ago I meant to say to you personally? I didn’t mean to you personably I just meant it like a statement in general.

Morbidly A Beast:
my point is just that it’s wrong and creepy to fetishize the girl just trying to enjoy her day at the beach when there’s hundreds of women online here who enjoy it. Any kind of hyperbole aside it seemed to upset the right kind of freak who just thought consent is just the worst and people noticed, I had to take a few days because it was making me so angry people didn’t understand basic consent.

Greentrees8733:
Similarly, Morbidly A Beast, you’re also addressing a morality angle, right? Like it’s morally okay to feel attraction, but not fetishize? I think that’s what I’m reading, but I just want to double check.

Morbidly A Beast:
Of course it’s ok to feel attraction. Attractions aren’t fetishes. No one says straight men have a fetish for women lol. But yes. However it is more about it just being kinda cringe I see it all the time in these spaces and it’s just kinda meh to me.

Letters And Numbers:
That's like Puritan level thought policing.

Munchies:
How so?

Munchies:
There's nothing wrong with having sexual fantasies - even if they are unusual ones. But like ... consent is sexy. And if you don't have their consent, then maybe don't sexualize them.

Greentrees8733:
Totally understandable that the experience you described would feel violating.

I’m just not convinced fantasizing about others constitutes a violation of consent. I’m willing to be convinced otherwise, but here’s my take, featuring good ol’ Alice and Bob:

Alice’s thoughts about Bob are not actually Bob. Bob himself isn’t actually involved in Alice’s private thoughts about Bob, so there’s nothing for him to consent to (or not). Alice’s thoughts (about anything) are part of Alice. As an autonomous person, I would think Alice is the only one with any say over her own private thoughts.

Put another way, I don’t think fantasizing about guys as a teenager makes you “guilty” of anything. I just don’t see how private thoughts have any moral weight. Like, what harm did you do, or risk doing?

Sharing them is different, though. Sharing impacts others, so their consent is relevant. But that’s kind of OT for this reply.

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Side note: OP does say “I couldn’t keep my eyes off her” which (given the voyeuristic style of the post) kinda sounds like an inappropriate/potentially violating amount of staring, but that’s a separate issue from fantasizing being a violation of consent.

Munchies:
As a man thinks, so does he do.

I'm not saying fantasizing about people means you're going to actually do the thing. But it does color what you do in reality. The extent depends on what you conciously check yourself on, but it's never 100%.

Like, if a woman's boss fantasizes about her sexually, or a woman fantasizes about her best friend's husband, can we say it's not going to color their interactions with the object of their desire?

Remember, the issue isn't the kinks so much as the object of your desires.

Morbidly A Beast:
I personally don’t like this stuff and I think it’s cringe when there’s people talking about people’s pants and shirts not fitting when they’re out in public. Like damn imagine you being told that unless you’re into humiliation.

That’s different than finding someone attractive. That’s fetishizing and kinda messed up. I don’t think anyone would be okay with someone fantasizing about raping someone and then like describing it, and then saying it’s just what they find attractive — I’m not making that comparison in this instance I’m just saying it for an example, to be clear

Letters And Numbers:
This is a website that caters to a fetish community? It’s not the only thing it does, but it’s a big part of it.

Morbidly A Beast:
Yes but the people who join this are consenting. The people being fetishized would probably be mortified if they found this stuff.

Letters And Numbers:
I think most people would see that as an extreme take at the very least, or more likely just trolling. But everyone has their own trip so I hope that is a good one for you.

Munchies:
Idk about that. I mean the fat positive community sees the fat fetish community as inherently abusive. Not saying we are, but it's a very common take.

Morbidly A Beast:
I personally don’t like this stuff and I think it’s cringe when there’s people talking about people’s pants and shirts not fitting when they’re out in public. Like damn imagine you being told that unless you’re into humiliation.

That’s different than finding someone attractive. That’s fetishizing and kinda messed up. I don’t think anyone would be okay with someone fantasizing about raping someone and then like describing it, and then saying it’s just what they find attractive — I’m not making that comparison in this instance I’m just saying it for an example, to be clear

Letters And Numbers:
This is a website that caters to a fetish community? It’s not the only thing it does, but it’s a big part of it.

Morbidly A Beast:
Yes but the people who join this are consenting. The people being fetishized would probably be mortified if they found this stuff.