It took me about three months to figure out that my best performing stories were about art and history so I make sure to do a couple of those a week. I'm still experimenting with other types of stories: humor, opinion, tips, etc. My poems do pretty well as far as people reading them and liking them but the basis for pay being the number of minutes members are reading pretty much guarantee that I make next to nothing on those. It's okay. I'll eventually have enough for a book!