Hi all : ) I was recently thinking of publishing a poetry book someday. This is just kind of a general question / open discussion. Do you think it would be better to have a separate pen name for poetry and regular books? Or should they all be under one name?
I don’t know much about the concept of branding or anything as a writer so I’m curious to hear everyone’s thoughts.
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Seperate name means that people cant find what else you do. Generally speaking, a separate name is for anonymity. I use JLO because I don’t want my name on everything. Just don’t.
But if I did a seperate book, it’s all going to be under the same name.
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Me: Maybe unlike guys women won’t immediately want to do NSFW stuff and maybe we can do other things
Also me: Nvm
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My life is a soap opera combined with a drama and now I suppose combined with smut fml
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Man, there’s too many factors. Generally inhibitions come with inexperience, and as you get older, you gain experience. So NSFW increases over time, until people get jaded.
Some of it is upbringing. You get told all your life to follow your feelings and do what feels good/right, you’re going to chase a dopamine high eventually. And there’s confusion over self-discipline and repression, too. Repression is going to crack, but discipline tends to get stronger with time.
Then there’s existentialism. Anything is better to most people than staring into the void.
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I’m thinking about this…
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Alright, that’s it.
Time to write fanfic 
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I’m working on fanfiction right now!
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What fandom? If you say it’s Akagi or Kaiji, I am gonna reset you 
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Building original characters — their quirks and distinct traits — proved more difficult for her than developing a plot.
Come on, the characters are the easy part.
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Eheheheeh
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Yeah, the plot is the hard part
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Shows how boring these ‘fanfic writers’ are if they re getitng published and can’ even come up with their own unique characters, to be honest.
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These computers have more character and use almost every friggin’ published fanfic writer trying to make their own original characters, it seems.
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Nah it’s the fact that I sit exams just to have to go pay tuition to do simultaneous equations again. Like, that’s baby stuff get outta here.
I’m definitely resitting when I don’t have a bunch of alcoholics breathing down my neck.
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Also I missed learning socialisation when everyone else did and uh, wouldn’t recommend.
Can’t find anyone who will teach me since they’d all just leave as I suppose I’m not very interesting. 
go outside and look at the super blue moon. there isn’t going to be another until 2037 
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There’s actually people who work on this as jobs…I had to look it up and see:
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I didn’t expect to wake up and have a big cry session in the middle of the night on my 42 birthday.
No, not a big deal, I’m on the other side of it right now, don’t need the comfort.
But I was explaining to someone who needed to hear it that Imposter Syndrome is far less scary a monster than the I Could Die Early And Leave My Kids With Nothing Of Me monster that stems from my mom’s own death. It’s been 5 years, and this still gets to me.
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