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Author Topic: Wannabe author but don't know the effects being an escort/ex-escort will have.  (Read 835 times)

GinnieHazel

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Over a year ago when I was first working as an escort I was feeling lonely. I decided to go on a course at the local adult learning centre and fiction writing looked the most interesting. I'm now enrolled on a course to get me ready to re-enter higher education and I'm thinking about undergraduate studies in 'Creative Writing'.

The thing is, I'm wondering whether being an escort or having been an escort in the past will have a good or bad effect on my future. I have no plans to write a 'Kiss and Tell' book and I'm not out to shock or portray myself as someone who 'climbed back up from whoring'. I'm also reasonably open about my job and not planning to write any books aimed at children.

I already have a book of erotic stories in the works and I'm submitting vanilla short stories to competitions and articles to magazines but I want to think about this now and not have a decision forced on me.

It's also worth remembering that writing won't pay the bills for a while, if at all, and definitely not before I finish the course.

God, I talked a lot.

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Well, I AM a writer (mag articles & features so far, not had a book published yet, but working on it) and I'd say that as long as you are prepared to brazen out any future potential media stories, then you haven't got too much to worry about. You say you are "reasonably open" about escorting, so this will help if you suddenly found yourself as famous as JK Rowling, in the sense that you can go "yeah I used to be an escort, so what?" *shrugs*.

Personally, I wouldn't be too concerned. Maintain an escort persona - as in DON'T tell your clients that you're a writer (they WILL want to look you up!), and make sure your escort name is different to your writing name. I also wouldn't show your face in any escorting pics or movies, and if you also do camming, wear a wig or change your hairstyle. You may not be ashamed of escorting, but you don't want "VICE PICS!" being unearthed in the future and used against you.

Hopefully you'll get more advice about stuff that I've not thought of yet :)

ana30

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Brooke Magnanti was "outed" by an angry ex so I would reccomend not "spilling the beans" to your boyfriends and if you do you keeping in good terms with them  ;D
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