You can’t be all things to all people, one man’s meat, yada, yada.

If your (fictional?) writer is making the money they want, they should keep doing what they are doing.

Speaking from my own experience, I don’t put any more or less effort into a $100 plus story or a $2.00 story. Some stories can fly, some cannot. I’ve had seven boosts so far and I wouldn’t say any of those are my best or even close to it.

What flies, soars. What doesn’t, thuds. Most of it is in the middle somewhere and I’m happy with the income.