Comments on: Pen Names http://www.dailywritingtips.com/pen-names/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:00:10 -0600 hourly 1 By: Shar Daniel http://www.dailywritingtips.com/pen-names/comment-page-1/#comment-190703 Shar Daniel Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:24:34 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=504#comment-190703 I use a pen name to seperate my admirers from reality. I have been stalked and it is not a good feeling. I write because it is my passion. I use a pen name to seperate my admirers from reality. I have been stalked and it is not a good feeling. I write because it is my passion.

]]> By: Stephen Thorn http://www.dailywritingtips.com/pen-names/comment-page-1/#comment-143188 Stephen Thorn Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:47:23 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=504#comment-143188 I use a pen name for my fictional stories because my birth name is terribly common and dull as dishwater. With a pen name I can evoke a certain image to my readers (if you doubt it, consider that the birth name of movie cowboy/tough guy John Wayne was really Marion Michael Morrison -- not exactly an appropriate monniker for a hard-punching, gun-slinging, kind of guy) that fits the story they're about to dive into. For my non-fiction, my birth name is fine. I use a pen name for my fictional stories because my birth name is terribly common and dull as dishwater. With a pen name I can evoke a certain image to my readers (if you doubt it, consider that the birth name of movie cowboy/tough guy John Wayne was really Marion Michael Morrison — not exactly an appropriate monniker for a hard-punching, gun-slinging, kind of guy) that fits the story they’re about to dive into. For my non-fiction, my birth name is fine.

]]> By: Lizzie http://www.dailywritingtips.com/pen-names/comment-page-1/#comment-63537 Lizzie Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:01:06 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=504#comment-63537 Thanks for the feedback.... Thanks for the feedback….

]]> By: Kathie M. Thomas http://www.dailywritingtips.com/pen-names/comment-page-1/#comment-63529 Kathie M. Thomas Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:19:28 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=504#comment-63529 Fair enough Lizzie. I do have one blog I write under another name because it reveals things that were done to members of my family. I don't want to release their names or have people pointing at them so I'm protecting their identity but need to publicise things that happen which need laws reformed or something changed. So I can appreciate where you might be coming from. I would hope that I'm only 1/2 way through my life but then that would mean I'd live to over 100 so perhaps I'm being hopeful :-) Fair enough Lizzie. I do have one blog I write under another name because it reveals things that were done to members of my family. I don’t want to release their names or have people pointing at them so I’m protecting their identity but need to publicise things that happen which need laws reformed or something changed. So I can appreciate where you might be coming from. I would hope that I’m only 1/2 way through my life but then that would mean I’d live to over 100 so perhaps I’m being hopeful :-)

]]> By: Lizzie http://www.dailywritingtips.com/pen-names/comment-page-1/#comment-63527 Lizzie Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:10:16 +0000 http://www.dailywritingtips.com/?p=504#comment-63527 Hi Kathie M. Thomas Thanks for the comment. I appreciate different points of view. However, its not that I've developed a bad or tough reputation with my family or anything its just that I come from a very strict, religious upbringing and some of the topics I may write about whether or not my book does well, may not sit well with my family. Oh I'm sure they will be proud to have an author in the family, and there are probably some pieces I will write in my own name, I live thousands of miles away and there are things about me that they don't know and it's for their own good or perhaps mine but I would rather not deal with the fallout should they find out. And of course, Lizzie is a Pen Name for this forum :) My colleagues and clients may be more open, so I agree with you on that point. But my family will only be privy to certain pieces. The rest I will take to my grave. Or I will deal with it if I get discovered but until then I stay undercover. As a matter of fact, now that I think of it, I have always been the person who likes to be behind the scenes never in the lime-light. I will be one of the people they thank for helping to make things happen. Maybe I will change as I get older...or when I have my 3/4-life-crisis, but for now, I'm just me. Have a blessed week. Hi Kathie M. Thomas

Thanks for the comment. I appreciate different points of view. However, its not that I’ve developed a bad or tough reputation with my family or anything its just that I come from a very strict, religious upbringing and some of the topics I may write about whether or not my book does well, may not sit well with my family. Oh I’m sure they will be proud to have an author in the family, and there are probably some pieces I will write in my own name, I live thousands of miles away and there are things about me that they don’t know and it’s for their own good or perhaps mine but I would rather not deal with the fallout should they find out. And of course, Lizzie is a Pen Name for this forum :)

My colleagues and clients may be more open, so I agree with you on that point. But my family will only be privy to certain pieces. The rest I will take to my grave. Or I will deal with it if I get discovered but until then I stay undercover.

As a matter of fact, now that I think of it, I have always been the person who likes to be behind the scenes never in the lime-light. I will be one of the people they thank for helping to make things happen. Maybe I will change as I get older…or when I have my 3/4-life-crisis, but for now, I’m just me.

Have a blessed week.

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