Thoughts on identity

[grimorie]

Experimenting with markdown.

I think I'm really loving this way of writing, it feels more intuitive, I'm a bit of a late adapter, I've known about it for some time but only started to really get into it when I found Editorially.

I've also been recently immersing myself in reading things by Amy Hoy and learning about bootstrapping, self-publishing and earning an income online. I've actually been trying to start something like that in my real life blog.

One thing I've been thinking about since reading things about running a business online is about identities, or online identities.

I have a different fannish online identity than my real life identity, and I've always been leery of those two meeting. Except, I kind of want to experiment on self-publishing both in the fiction and non-fiction front, so I don't how to handle that. Do I use another name for my possible self-published fiction book, or do I continue to use my RL one?

How do you guys handle your fannish identity with your real life identity?

Comments

[elle_white]

This is something I've felt as well. I'm trying to start an online business too, and I've thought a lot about how to maintain a balance between my fannish life and real life. It's something I'm still working through, and as establish it more, I think that's something I will work through as I go. I have posted my business site on facebook, so I can spread the word on it. And I'm considering creating a separate twitter account for business, while still maintaining a fannish one.

Whenever I've taken courses on online business, these sort of things are never addressed. And I think this is something that need to be talked with people of our generation, who use social media extensively.

[grimorie]

First, congratulations on your online business!

Second:

I think this is something that need to be talked with people of our generation, who use social media extensively.

This. How do you address if you have a different internet identity from your real life one? Especially when your Real Life identity is starting to crossover with your fannish identity which is arguably older than your RL online identity?

Do you keep them apart or bring them together?

I know there was some debate about this years ago, and I know fic writers have crossover to Original Fiction (Naomi Novik being one example, and Yahtzee to name a few). How do we address this, I wonder?