Poll: How many names does this one writer need?
So here's the situation: I use my real name for my real life and for fandom. I know I'm going to need at least two noms de plume: one for erotica and one for the more mainstream paranormal mystery novel I'm working on.
I've taken charge of the craft chat section of the writing group I belong to, which means that every other week I create a handout and come up with a writing exercise on whatever topic we're covering. This week's handout was so well received by my group that I thought, hey, I should be doing something with these, like, say, putting them on a blog. I'd also like to start doing some freelance writing, which I'd like to do under a pseudonym rather than my real name - I'd like to have people googling that identity come across things that are more professional-minded than fan fic.
I'm thinking that having the writing stuff would be good to have under the mainstream alias. At the same time, I think the writing stuff would be good to have under the freelancing alias. But here's where I'm hesitating: any freelance writing I do probably won't be my best work. Not that it'll be bad, but I'm good enough to write something that's good enough without writing something as good as "my art," as L from my writing group calls it. So should I have a separate pseudonym for the freelance writing, or do it all under one name?
Poll How many names does this one writer need?
I've taken charge of the craft chat section of the writing group I belong to, which means that every other week I create a handout and come up with a writing exercise on whatever topic we're covering. This week's handout was so well received by my group that I thought, hey, I should be doing something with these, like, say, putting them on a blog. I'd also like to start doing some freelance writing, which I'd like to do under a pseudonym rather than my real name - I'd like to have people googling that identity come across things that are more professional-minded than fan fic.
I'm thinking that having the writing stuff would be good to have under the mainstream alias. At the same time, I think the writing stuff would be good to have under the freelancing alias. But here's where I'm hesitating: any freelance writing I do probably won't be my best work. Not that it'll be bad, but I'm good enough to write something that's good enough without writing something as good as "my art," as L from my writing group calls it. So should I have a separate pseudonym for the freelance writing, or do it all under one name?
Poll How many names does this one writer need?