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write_awayHow do you go about choosing a pen name? I don't know where to start.
I've been going back and forth for a long time about whether I would want to use a pseudonym if I ever actually got published. I finally decided yes because I don't need to worry about my bigoted brother seeing the shameful empathy towards things he disapproves of in my writing and judging me, even if I know that it's unlikely that they would google me and find out that I have a few stories that a handful of people have read. True story: his girlfriend once refused to lend me a book because she had discovered since buying it that it was "immoral" and said that she regretted lending me other such books in the past because she shouldn't be enabling me in poisoning my mind with such things.
Anyway, pen names. Do you have one? How did you choose it?
I kind of feel like I'm getting ahead of myself, but in my defense, I did write today.
I've been going back and forth for a long time about whether I would want to use a pseudonym if I ever actually got published. I finally decided yes because I don't need to worry about my bigoted brother seeing the shameful empathy towards things he disapproves of in my writing and judging me, even if I know that it's unlikely that they would google me and find out that I have a few stories that a handful of people have read. True story: his girlfriend once refused to lend me a book because she had discovered since buying it that it was "immoral" and said that she regretted lending me other such books in the past because she shouldn't be enabling me in poisoning my mind with such things.
Anyway, pen names. Do you have one? How did you choose it?
I kind of feel like I'm getting ahead of myself, but in my defense, I did write today.
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Date: 2014-05-28 09:48 pm (UTC)And as far as your mother goes - while mine has always supported my writing and read a great deal of it, there are specific pieces she has said she would not read because she doesn't think it would be her kind of thing. (Which has nothing to do with the fact that there's a lesbian in it everything to do with the fact that the main character's part spider.) So it'll probably be fine.