Making a second account for different stories?

[StillStunned]

If Stephen King can create an alt (Richard Bachman), I guess anyone can.

--Annie

And James Oliver Rigney Jr, better known as Robert Jordan:

I was at a signing in the late 90s, and someone asked why he used different pen names, and he said it was so that readers would know what genre of book it was going to be.

Then again, Dorothy Dunnett wrote very serious historical novels and light-hearted detectives under the same name. George MacDonald Fraser wrote raunchy and humorous historical novels, movie scripts, serious historical novels, memoirs and essays all under the same name. Jack Vance wrote sci-fi and fantasy under the same name, as did Anne McCaffrey and Ursula K. LeGuin.

 

[BlueZen]

What's the story with the Loving Wives section? Are fans of this category particularly judgmental?

These are called "alts".

It's been discussed off and on, especially relative to Loving Wives. The theory (and likely reality) is that the malignancy in that category metastasizes into an author's other stories once that author publishes an LW story, by virtue of the "follow" feature. Separate account for LW could possibly act as a firewall.

What's the story with the Loving Wives section? Are fans of this category particularly judgmental?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Then again, Dorothy Dunnett wrote very serious historical novels and light-hearted detectives under the same name. George MacDonald Fraser wrote raunchy and humorous historical novels, movie scripts, serious historical novels, memoirs and essays all under the same name. Jack Vance wrote sci-fi and fantasy under the same name, as did Anne McCaffrey and Ursula K. LeGuin.

Isaac Asimov wrote everything from dirty limerick books to science essays to mystery stories under his legal name. I think his sex education book was published as by "Dr. A" but the secret was out before it actually got printed.

--Annie

 

[RejectReality]

What's the story with the Loving Wives section? Are fans of this category particularly judgmental?

What's the story with the Loving Wives section? Are fans of this category particularly judgmental?

It's a nasty sharkpit of warring camps who hate each other's type of story and downvote them to hell and back to chase out the other camp's authors, who are tainting their category. They also leave venomous commentary that often fails to separate the fiction from the author — ascribing the character's actions to the author.

There's a lot of readers, but some of the worst ones will follow you to bomb and leave nasty comments on everything you post, dragging your whole catalog down for the sin of posting a story they didn't like.

 

[BlueZen]

It's a nasty sharkpit of warring camps who hate each other's type of story and downvote them to hell and back to chase out the other camp's authors, who are tainting their category. They also leave venomous commentary that often fails to separate the fiction from the author — ascribing the character's actions to the author.

There's a lot of readers, but some of the worst ones will follow you to bomb and leave nasty comments on everything you post, dragging your whole catalog down for the sin of posting a story they didn't like.

Ohhhhh. I wonder if one of them attacked my in my comments recently. That would make sense. Threatened me with physical harm.

Thanks for explaining.

 

[Voboy]

There's nothing wrong with doing alts for writing purposes. Folks have been doing that sort of thing since forever. Benjamin Franklin, for example, had several alts for various publications.

 

[yowser]

One writer. One account. 100 stories all over the map, ten percent in LW.

I take my beating like a mensch, and I learned early on that the 'Itch for the 'Aitch' tended to inhibit or warp my creative instincts, my ability to write the story I wanted to tell, so my attitude towards scoring and the reception my output received altered accordingly.

Folks should do whatever they want, but recognize their motivations. As a side note, as an AH denizen, I find it occasionally confusing when I see posts and go 'wait, isn't Dumbass97 the same writer as LusciousPeach?'

But pseudonyms are older than the written word.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

There's nothing wrong with doing alts for writing purposes. Folks have been doing that sort of thing since forever. Benjamin Franklin, for example, had several alts for various publications.

We all know about Queen Elizabeth the First's alt, William Shakespeare, right?

--Annie

 

[KittyOfSteele]

If Stephen King can create an alt (Richard Bachman), I guess anyone can.

--Annie

And James Oliver Rigney Jr, better known as Robert Jordan:
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I was at a signing in the late 90s, and someone asked why he used different pen names, and he said it was so that readers would know what genre of book it was going to be.

Hmm...

Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa (13 June 1888 – 30 November 1935) was a Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, and publisher. He has been described as one of the most significant literary figures of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language. He also wrote in and translated from English and French.

Pessoa was a prolific writer both in his own name and approximately seventy-five other names, of which three stand out: Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, and Ricardo Reis. He did not define these as pseudonyms because he felt that this did not capture their true independent intellectual life and instead called them heteronyms, a term he invented. These imaginary figures sometimes held unpopular or extreme views.

If I had to create a new alt every time I published something "different", I'd probably make up half the AH by now.

Do you happen to be over 100 years old by any chance?

 

[StillStunned]

Do you happen to be over 100 years old by any chance?

My life started two and a half years ago, when I started posting here.

 

[CalBishForNow]

It's been discussed off and on, especially relative to Loving Wives. The theory (and likely reality) is that the malignancy in that category metastasizes into an author's other stories once that author publishes an LW story, by virtue of the "follow" feature. Separate account for LW could possibly act as a firewall.

LW is infamous for good reason and has been discussed to death, but I don't think it's this bad in general. For a little data, I had published 12 stories before my first LW story. I was so struck by the stats on that that I took notes on it and my previous stories for comparison. Two days after my first LW story, my three-highest-scoring stories were at 4.57, 4.68, and 4.64. Today I've published 14 or so more stories, depending on what counts, all but one in LW, and those three are still my highest scorers, at 4.61, 4.68, and 4.67. To summarize, statistically insignificant.

If I was going to write something I knew would piss off the BTB crowd so much that I thought they'd go hunting down my other stories, I'd probably put it in Fetish to begin with.

 

[lc69hunter]

Ohhhhh. I wonder if one of them attacked my in my comments recently. That would make sense. Threatened me with physical harm.

Thanks for explaining.

I changed my location in my profile for that very reason

 

[bmeyem8]

Every one of my 11 stories is in LW and I feel that I have paid for it in low ratings. And in hateful comments. At first I prided myself in not deleting any comments, but now many of the comments are so vile and directed not only at me but at my family that I do delete them. Additionally I have removed from public view the star ratings on some stories because I don't want to scare away potential readers. The ratings are low due to incessant nuke 1-bombs. That is literary life in the LW trenches.
I add, though, that many of the comments are goldenly good. The story truely and deeply affected the reader and they comment accordly. To wit, Buster2U comment on my https://www.literotica.com/s/03-a-btb-the-best-btb story.

 

[OddLove]

Honestly, I just might make an alt account specifically for flooding LW with the most man hating shit possible. Just a big collection of divorce stories where entitled self proclaimed 'alphas' get cheated on by their wives after spending years being a giant adult boy who can't do dishes or laundry or cook, so their wives leave them for a shorter, weaker, four eyed dork who makes way less money, but absolutely loves being helpful around the house, is interested in her interests, and enjoys listening to her talk for hours.

I can literally feel my finger tips getting giddy at the idea of some angry guy logging on to read about woman suffering in various non-erotic ways, then he stumbles across one of my LW stories thinking 'wife gets what she fucking deserves' means one thing, only for the reader to find out she actually got everything she deserved, including the house where her and her new dorky boyfriend take turns giving each other foot massages.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I have stories across half a dozen different categories, but I think those stories still have a lot in common; I might have one lesbian romance in Lesbian Sex, another in Romance, another in Erotic Horror, and another in SF/F, but somebody who likes one of those will probably like the other two. So I don't use an alt.

I would see more reason to use an alt if I were publishing very different styles within the same category and I wanted to distinguish those "brands". Or if I were publishing material that seemed likely to draw trolls and I didn't want that spilling over to my other work.

 

[redgarters]

I've been wondering about this. Not that I'm going to start writing LW (although it might be fun to see if I can make the comments go up in flames), but I have one or two ideas for sapphic I/T stories and gay male. I'd rather just keep it all in one account but don't know how deviating into those categories would affect the LS stories that are my main event.

 

[Duleigh]

Do you upload all your stories on the same account? Or on different accounts?

I publish all my stories in the same account, but if I suddenly came down with a bizarre mental condition and wanted to begin publishing in LW I would use a second account. My stories on Lit reflect the stories I publish professionally and this pen name has a following so I'm not going to endanger that following.