Shy authors?

[Kerali]

Does anyone else create a totally separate persona as your story author? I realize we're already here with aliases, so it feels a little neurotic to create another super secret alias for my stories. At the same time, my stories feel way more personal than any of my posts, and I'm not sure I want any readers to be able to know the more real me. I'm getting ready to start submitting my first stories.

Anyone else feel that way?

 

[lovecraft68]

Well... I....

Sorry your av is very distracting

I don't worry about readers really knowing me through my stories because they would have to know me in real life to see the similarities and they don't so I don't see an issue.

As you said you're anon here. Honestly its here on the boards not the stories where people tend to give too much personal info away.

 

[oggbashan]

The question really is: Do you reveal yourself in your stories?

It doesn't really matter whether you have one alias or two, as long as you don't put personal details in your profile or posts.

I originally created a different user name jeanne_d_artois to write stories from a female point of view. I kept her separate from oggbashan for a while, but eventually admitted 'she' was me.

But anyone reading all my stories as oggbashan and jeanne_d_artois might get a confused idea about me. I sometimes write for a specific fetish audience including for fetishes that have no appeal to me personally.

Some comments complain that some of my stories aren't 'typically oggbashan' and that they are not what they expect from me. I don't feel restricted in my writing by my public Literotica persona - but neither oggbashan nor jeanne_d_artois, not even Fag-Ash_Lil are the real me. They are all constructs.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

i'm just as big a twat in r/l as on the boards.

as for the stories...

i mebbe slip in the twattishness on loving wives, just for the grin, but that's it.

the stories i submit are in no way anything to do with 'me'. as far as i'm concerned they're an experiment.

good luck with the submissions.

 

[StrangeLife]

To be honest I'm mainly here to post cock pictures...

... but in between I have been passing time posting a story or two.


And yes, there is something of myself in the stories. You can only write convincingly about things you know, so it's impossible to keep your own personality and experiences from seeping into your creations. That goes for any author. I'm sure a trained psychologist can say a lot about a person just by reading his or her stories.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Mine are 99.8% me. I've done it or seen it close up.

 

[Swilly]

Does anyone else create a totally separate persona as your story author? I realize we're already here with aliases, so it feels a little neurotic to create another super secret alias for my stories. At the same time, my stories feel way more personal than any of my posts, and I'm not sure I want any readers to be able to know the more real me. I'm getting ready to start submitting my first stories.

Anyone else feel that way?

I can see why you might feel that way. Some can write stories in any category and do a good job making things up whether it is a turn on for them or not. Some write stories about what affects them deeply. When you come to the boards here, I can see how that might feel a bit awkward. Here, you might just want to be a writer, and you don't want to have that colored by your own particular sexual desires.


I don't think anyone here cares much, but you need to make up your own mind about that.

 

[loquere]

Does anyone else create a totally separate persona as your story author? I realize we're already here with aliases, so it feels a little neurotic to create another super secret alias for my stories. At the same time, my stories feel way more personal than any of my posts, and I'm not sure I want any readers to be able to know the more real me. I'm getting ready to start submitting my first stories.

Anyone else feel that way?

A good writer is honest. Honest to them self most of all.

 

[SecondCircle]

I think its a bit of everything. Even people you meet everyday hide some shred of themselves, and even folks you know you don't really really know.

I don't read much into an author's "identity" by what they write because honestly writers are masters of creation. We write ourselves, we steal personalities from others, we create visions, we guide or mislead, and ultimately, we're pretty good at writing fiction. So the reflection is there, but often it's more like smoke and mirrors to really see someone with any clarity.

I've said to someone before, if there was ever a "Lit bookclub" meeting somewhere, people might be really surprised to see the SecondCircle that walks through the door.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Writing is masturbation of the mind.

If you read a number of any author's stories you can start to tell certain things about the author.

For instance, Robcub32, I've read so many of his stories, that I have his formula down. I know that in real life he either is, or has a serious kink for, hyper masculine redneck-types. He has or had daddy issues, and in real life he works in computers.

If somebody read all of my stories, they would be able to tell that I have an unhealthy obsession with making twinks have horrible lives and hot sex.

They might be able to guess that I'm going to college to be a nurse, because many of my characters are either nurses or in nursing school. They definitely are able to tell that I'm a woman because in my early stories especially, I was obsessed with virginity, and all of my submissive male characters exacted like moe anime women.

Ditto daddy issues.

You put yourself in your stories. Which is why Scouries' stories are as repellent and infantile and racist as he is. Which is why JBJ has no stories

It's impossible to fake a personality when you have a quantity of work out. Anybody who reads your work can make educated guesses about the real you.

 

[Aynmair]

I have always written as a form of self-therapy and working out personality kinks and desires, so building a different persona would make no sense. I sometimes use details that could place me if readers knew me, but here I am just one more water drop in the ocean.

 

[Hypoxia]

Does anyone else create a totally separate persona as your story author?

If I did, I couldn't talk about it, or it would no longer be a secret, hey? Or maybe one of my multiple personalities does so without informing the rest of us. [Shut up!] [No, you shut up! You're spilling the beans!] [Aw fuck you, you constipated drizzle.] [Hey, you guys, pipe down, I'm trying to write.] The voices in my head get unruly a times. Especially after orgasms. The shit I have to put up with...

 

[TxRad]

If I did, I couldn't talk about it, or it would no longer be a secret, hey? Or maybe one of my multiple personalities does so without informing the rest of us. [Shut up!] [No, you shut up! You're spilling the beans!] [Aw fuck you, you constipated drizzle.] [Hey, you guys, pipe down, I'm trying to write.] The voices in my head get unruly a times. Especially after orgasms. The shit I have to put up with...

I've always thought the reason writers write is to get the voices out of their heads.

 

[oggbashan]

I've always thought the reason writers write is to get the voices out of their heads.

That doesn't work for me. The more I write, the more the voices (Muses) insist that there are more stories to write.

 

[TxRad]

That doesn't work for me. The more I write, the more the voices (Muses) insist that there are more stories to write.

I've finally narrowed it down to two Muses. One for erotica and one for mainstream. The problems start when they get to arguing over what should and should not be included in the story. That or they switch places without telling me.

 

[MrFoxwood]

Does anyone else create a totally separate persona as your story author? I realize we're already here with aliases, so it feels a little neurotic to create another super secret alias for my stories. At the same time, my stories feel way more personal than any of my posts, and I'm not sure I want any readers to be able to know the more real me. I'm getting ready to start submitting my first stories.

Anyone else feel that way?

From my last two submissions I've recieved three comments remarking on my wife being lucky to have me. I can only assume that these were in reference to the dedicated way in which the lead characters pleased their lovers. The thing is I would love the opportunity to act in that way but currently it's not really happening like that. I guess the author me is how the real me would like to be, it is me minus restraint.

I think it's very difficult to not pour some of ourselves in to any character we write. Isn't there some quote about all portraiture being self-portraiture? I have a feeling it was Picasso, but someone better educated than me can probably say with greater certainty who said it.

 

[Athalia]

I have always written as a form of self-therapy and working out personality kinks and desires, so building a different persona would make no sense. I sometimes use details that could place me if readers knew me, but here I am just one more water drop in the ocean.

Same here.

If anything, I'm a shyer person in RL than I am on Lit. My shields are up more there than here.

When I write, I am forced to become the character I'm creating, using elements of my own personality but giving the character a history I never had, or a social context I've never experienced. That's a good thing, because my own history and social context is what I want to get away from sometimes.

 

[49greg]

Talk about shy!

Or maybe paranoid. I started reading Lit years before I posted anything. I had an ID (not this one), and I didn't do anything in the forum. The only place that original ID showed up was in the open comments of stories, and the occasional email comment to authors - usually asking for continuation.

So when I actually got the courage to post a story, not wanting to sully my secret anonymous identity, I created another ID (this one). Duh!

So now I have two ID's: the one I post stories on, and post in the forum on, and the original one that I don't use.

What didn't I understand about anonymous identity? Well at least the "spelling police" comments I made under the old ID won't come back to haunt me LOL.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

From my last two submissions I've recieved three comments remarking on my wife being lucky to have me. I can only assume that these were in reference to the dedicated way in which the lead characters pleased their lovers. The thing is I would love the opportunity to act in that way but currently it's not really happening like that. I guess the author me is how the real me would like to be, it is me minus restraint.

I think it's very difficult to not pour some of ourselves in to any character we write. Isn't there some quote about all portraiture being self-portraiture? I have a feeling it was Picasso, but someone better educated than me can probably say with greater certainty who said it.

IRL no man pleases every woman he beds. Youll make one scream and squirt, and the next cant wait for you to go. Same dick, same tongue, same steak house, same booze.

 

[AMoveableBeast]

Well at least the "spelling police" comments I made under the old ID won't come back to haunt me LOL.

I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!

 

[Acktion]

Does anyone else create a totally separate persona as your story author? I realize we're already here with aliases, so it feels a little neurotic to create another super secret alias for my stories. At the same time, my stories feel way more personal than any of my posts, and I'm not sure I want any readers to be able to know the more real me. I'm getting ready to start submitting my first stories.

Anyone else feel that way?

To me, that feels perfectly sane, safe, and ultimately like real life. We all wear different masks for different occasions. You wouldn't act the same way in a church as you would on a girls night at a bar. (Which I've always considered a pity. Might spice up mass to have the blonde on the third pew shout "Wahoo" after her "shot".)

No, the question I've had once or twice about halfway through the story is "OMG! I wonder if that is closer to the real me than the way I act in real life!"

Then, I think about it for a moment and toss my hair and snort and say. "Ugh. As if. Like whatever."

 

[SikFuk]

Shy authors?

I write shy characters, which are a reflection of the younger me. Now that I'm an old fart and don't give a shit anymore, I'm not concerned about my online persona. Everything online gets pushed all out of proportion anyway. It's not RL, it's a fantasy world we create to escape RL, or enhance RL, or however you want to look at it. But if decorum is that important to you, by all means create another alt (besides the alt you already have) and post away.

 

[SamScribble]

Does anyone else create a totally separate persona as your story author? I realize we're already here with aliases, so it feels a little neurotic to create another super secret alias for my stories. At the same time, my stories feel way more personal than any of my posts, and I'm not sure I want any readers to be able to know the more real me. I'm getting ready to start submitting my first stories.

Anyone else feel that way?

According to a psychologist with whom I used to work, most good writers are introverts. There are exceptions, of course; but most good writers are inwardly focussed and quite protective of their privacy. According to my former colleague, many apparently extroverted writers are just ‘acting out a part that they have created for themselves.’ If you would rather your readers didn’t get to see too much of the real you, that’s probably more normal than you might expect.

 

[YDB95]

One alias is enough for me. Besides, my few friends from outside this community who have seen my Lit stories usually can pick mine out of a group anyway, as I apparently have a very distinctive way of writing. (I can't see it myself, but I guess that's the way these things always work.) All the hiding in the world isn't going to change that, but at the end of the day I'm not ashamed of anything I've posted.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Feelings aren't thoughts.

Feelings are: Mad, sad, glad, afraid, tired, sleepy, hungry, thirsty, hot, cold, pain, etc.