Pen Names, Pen Names, Pen Names
Sep. 10th, 2015 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
juniper_beckHello everyone, somehow I've managed not to backslide. Rejoice!
*hears applause in the background*
Thank you. Thank you.
Now then, I've been thinking (and searching on writing forums) about pen names and author branding. Mostly because I have a old account on Fictionpress that I wanted to start firing up again and had to think about my subject matter. You see, the thing is I wasn't exactly sure on how to rate my stuff. Some has sex. Some don't have sex. Others takes place in a modern setting. A few don't.
Before all this, I though of myself as a fantasy writer *sparkle sparkle* and that I could get away with posting all. Contemporary Fantasy. Portal Fantasy. High Fantasy. Fairytale Fantasy. Erotic Fantasy. But I have to take account which has sex, which doesn't and exactly how mature the themes are. And should I make a pen name to separate all that?
At first, I was alright with using Juniper Beck as my main pen name. Less stress to manage and I already had a tumblr account with that name as well. But after thinking it over, I thought it would be smarter to separate the genres of fantasy to two pen-names because one genre has more sex than the other. This sort of sorting only worked for a second because I realized several of my modern fantasy fics had sequels that would have sex in them.
Why I was such a pervert?
I was unwilling to think of cutting out the amount of sexual content just because I would have sequels devoted to sex or based off the amount of sexual content per story? It wouldn't make any sense because I would be dividing series and inter-connected stories just because I had a clean first story and filthy follow-up.
So I made more pen names for stories I might write and as a catch-all for anything that doesn't fit my main pen name.
Thus so far, I have:
Juniper Beck
-Modern Fantasy
Joonie Bevy
-Other-World Fantasy
Juliette Bavera
-Sweet and Savory Romances
Joanne Benton
-Hardcore and Kink-filled Erotic Romances and Smut
And after reading the rating guide I got from Let's Write Sherlock: but what do I rate it, I now know that all of fics are either mature or explicit. I'm not going to make accounts on Fictionpress for the other three until I start building a back-log and see what fic should go on there.
Instead, I'm going to make a Ao3 account and get all four pen names settled. I like Ao3 pen name system and the more I think about it, this does seem like the best course. If I was a reader browsing through my stuff, I'd like the separation.
By the way, not all my stories are sex-filled but I worry about the ones that are. They're my problem children.
*hears applause in the background*
Thank you. Thank you.
Now then, I've been thinking (and searching on writing forums) about pen names and author branding. Mostly because I have a old account on Fictionpress that I wanted to start firing up again and had to think about my subject matter. You see, the thing is I wasn't exactly sure on how to rate my stuff. Some has sex. Some don't have sex. Others takes place in a modern setting. A few don't.
Before all this, I though of myself as a fantasy writer *sparkle sparkle* and that I could get away with posting all. Contemporary Fantasy. Portal Fantasy. High Fantasy. Fairytale Fantasy. Erotic Fantasy. But I have to take account which has sex, which doesn't and exactly how mature the themes are. And should I make a pen name to separate all that?
At first, I was alright with using Juniper Beck as my main pen name. Less stress to manage and I already had a tumblr account with that name as well. But after thinking it over, I thought it would be smarter to separate the genres of fantasy to two pen-names because one genre has more sex than the other. This sort of sorting only worked for a second because I realized several of my modern fantasy fics had sequels that would have sex in them.
Why I was such a pervert?
I was unwilling to think of cutting out the amount of sexual content just because I would have sequels devoted to sex or based off the amount of sexual content per story? It wouldn't make any sense because I would be dividing series and inter-connected stories just because I had a clean first story and filthy follow-up.
So I made more pen names for stories I might write and as a catch-all for anything that doesn't fit my main pen name.
Thus so far, I have:
Juniper Beck
-Modern Fantasy
Joonie Bevy
-Other-World Fantasy
Juliette Bavera
-Sweet and Savory Romances
Joanne Benton
-Hardcore and Kink-filled Erotic Romances and Smut
And after reading the rating guide I got from Let's Write Sherlock: but what do I rate it, I now know that all of fics are either mature or explicit. I'm not going to make accounts on Fictionpress for the other three until I start building a back-log and see what fic should go on there.
Instead, I'm going to make a Ao3 account and get all four pen names settled. I like Ao3 pen name system and the more I think about it, this does seem like the best course. If I was a reader browsing through my stuff, I'd like the separation.
By the way, not all my stories are sex-filled but I worry about the ones that are. They're my problem children.
