Author Topic: Writing: Best Topic to Write (Read 4089 times)

scottyboy · « **on:** August 14, 2010, 03:18:01 PM »

My sim is an author and i was wondering which genre is the best to write(for money). Now I know romance novels give the most royalties but they do take longer to write. My question is, say if my sim was going to write, non-stop, for a week what topic would make the most money factoring in royalty/time factor.

TommyT · « **Reply #1 on:** August 14, 2010, 04:51:46 PM »

I would do childrens books. You can pump them out so fast and you'll easily complete the skill challange. Plus your writing speeds up with every book read (up to 50) which is easy for how short the kid books are.

Storyteller · « **Reply #2 on:** August 14, 2010, 07:00:07 PM »

If you are looking for money vs. time factor, I would say go with drama. It's a mid range book as far as length with decent royalties and you don't need to have any other traits or skills to write them. Children's books require level 3 painting skill. You also unlock them at level 3, which you should reach by the time you've written a fiction or sci-fi novel. But that's just my opinion.

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #3 on:** August 14, 2010, 07:22:20 PM »

Children's books for the win!!

scottyboy · « **Reply #4 on:** August 15, 2010, 07:59:56 AM »

Thanks for the advice. I will try out children's books.

John Allen · « **Reply #5 on:** August 17, 2010, 01:22:06 PM »

Haven't had a novelist sim for a while; but recently noticed that childrens books are a few pages longer than fiction or non-fiction novels. So those 2 should be writen faster.

Do children's books just get higher royalties? Or what makes them better for money?

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #6 on:** August 17, 2010, 01:26:24 PM »

Children's books are slightly longer than fiction and non-fiction. But, those genres are the absolute bottom of the barrel as far as expected royalties. Children's books have significantly better payout.

John Allen · « **Reply #7 on:** August 17, 2010, 01:35:53 PM »

Thanks Metro! Hmmm another couch potato writer might be in the works now.

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #8 on:** August 17, 2010, 01:39:21 PM »

Ha ha. Yeah, a great transition for a cook who knows all recipes is to go into Children's Book writing. The cook has already read many books since recipes count as a full book so they'll have that writing speed boost at the get-go.

John Allen · « **Reply #9 on:** August 17, 2010, 01:52:28 PM »

Quote from: Metropolis Man on August 17, 2010, 01:39:21 PM

Ha ha. Yeah, a great transition for a cook who knows all recipes is to go into Children's Book writing. The cook has already read many books since recipes count as a full book so they'll have that writing speed boost at the get-go.

Lol, that would be a bad mix in RL, decent cook and couch potato. Oh wait, that kinda is me :O minus the making money from writing part.

Metropolis Man · « **Reply #10 on:** August 17, 2010, 01:54:42 PM »

Quote from: John Allen on August 17, 2010, 01:52:28 PM

lol, that would be a bad mix in RL, decent cook and couch potato. oh wait that kinda is me :O

You too?

Pam · « **Reply #11 on:** August 17, 2010, 04:05:15 PM »

My current writer wrote children's books until she got her LTW of being a Professional Author. Now I'm switching her over to humor books, then to satire when it opens up. I don't have any actual data to share, but I've had success in the past with humor and satire novels.

lucky17 · « **Reply #12 on:** September 13, 2010, 08:10:06 PM »

I would have to agree with Pam on the Satire option. I started out using that, and if you have the over emotional and grumpy trait, (both connected to Satire) as well as perfectionist, I was able to make books between 2800-3900 a piece after writing only 20 books.

Sportsfan · « **Reply #13 on:** August 05, 2011, 01:20:21 AM »

Isnt it best to do masterpieces because in the guide it says that they have the best page to royalty ratio.

Pam · « **Reply #14 on:** August 05, 2011, 01:30:51 AM »

Quote from: Sportsfan on August 05, 2011, 01:20:21 AM

Isnt it best to do masterpieces because in the guide it says that they have the best page to royalty ratio.

Perhaps they do, but it takes a good deal of work to be able to write a masterpiece. In the meantime, your Sim has to write something, right? I've had decent luck with Satire, but the ones who did the best on this year's writing challenge used Children's books and ran away with by far the best scores.

folcon · « **Reply #15 on:** August 06, 2011, 02:08:24 AM »

In my experience, a Masterpiece took almost a week to write...well it seemed like a week. Was probably closer to 4-5 days. Now that might be okay if you are having a second Sim as an author writing other books to keep the income stream. But a solo Sim, yes, Children's books are the way to go. Just wish I had known that during the Writing challenge.

kiko94 · « **Reply #16 on:** August 06, 2011, 03:23:02 PM »

How much does a masterpeace bring?

folcon · « **Reply #17 on:** August 06, 2011, 09:27:37 PM »

A Masterpiece can bring in around 13,000 a week.

m.sato · « **Reply #18 on:** August 06, 2011, 10:55:53 PM »

My sim's 7th masterpiece had a week pay of $25,000, but she specialized in masterpieces and was both a bookworm and perfectionist.

kiko94 · « **Reply #19 on:** August 07, 2011, 09:27:06 AM »

Quote from: folcon on August 06, 2011, 09:27:37 PM

A Masterpiece can bring in around 13,000 a week.

That would be near 2 k a day? I would still rather go for a career

Sportsfan · « **Reply #20 on:** August 07, 2011, 11:21:40 AM »

Quote from: kiko94 on August 07, 2011, 09:27:06 AM

That would be near 2 k a week? I would still rather go for a career

Not a week, a day. And that's consistent for 6 weeks plus whatever other books you write.

kiko94 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 07, 2011, 06:33:28 PM »

Quote from: Sportsfan on August 07, 2011, 11:21:40 AM

Not a week, a day. And that's consistent for 6 weeks plus whatever other books you write.

Thanks for correcting me

So for 6 weeks!, yeah I can see now why people like writing that much

folcon · « **Reply #22 on:** August 07, 2011, 09:19:10 PM »

You can bring in a ton of cash if you have multpile kids all writing books while aging up. Durring one Legacy challenge, had 4 kids all writing books. Together, after getting to YA, they were earning about 35k a week.

MissPlumbBob · « **Reply #23 on:** August 08, 2011, 02:40:06 AM »

I almost always play a writer Sim. What I do is write 4 of every available book and leave the specialist slot open for the masterpieces.

m.sato · « **Reply #24 on:** August 08, 2011, 11:10:10 PM »

Actually, if you write 5 of each book your sim will still specialize in masterpieces as soon as the 5th book is complete; besides, the math gets a little easier.