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rsadelleSo 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?
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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?
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