Naming Names
Mar. 9th, 2004 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gnomiOK, so I was going to be all spiffy-like and construct a real poll about this, but I couldn't come up with any cute/catchy/snarky answers, so instead I'll do this the boring way.
I've been thinking a lot about pseudonyms and why/if people choose to use them. If I were to ever publish any of my fiction, I don't know whether or not I'd use a pseudonym. And that made me wonder - as I look around at all the writers on my friends list, and boy there are a lot of them. So, some questions:
1. Do you write?
2. If you write, do you use a pseudonym?
3. If you use a pseudonym, why?
4. If you don't use a pseudonym, why?
5. How did you choose your pseudonym?
6. Do more people know you by your pseudonym or by your real name? :-)
Curiousgnomis are waiting with bated breath for your answers.
I've been thinking a lot about pseudonyms and why/if people choose to use them. If I were to ever publish any of my fiction, I don't know whether or not I'd use a pseudonym. And that made me wonder - as I look around at all the writers on my friends list, and boy there are a lot of them. So, some questions:
1. Do you write?
2. If you write, do you use a pseudonym?
3. If you use a pseudonym, why?
4. If you don't use a pseudonym, why?
5. How did you choose your pseudonym?
6. Do more people know you by your pseudonym or by your real name? :-)
Curious
gnomis are waiting with bated breath for your answers.
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Date: 2004-03-09 11:07 am (UTC)Yes. Actually, that's about all I do.
2. If you write, do you use a pseudonym?
Again, yes.
3. If you use a pseudonym, why?
When I first started writing fanfic, I had a friend who preferred to keep her online personality separate from RL. I picked it up from her.
Plus, as
4. If you don't use a pseudonym, why?
5. How did you choose your pseudonym?
I had a separate pseudonym for writing het, and when I decided to try my hand at slash, I wanted to keep the two genres separate. (Again following that friend). If you've seen Jaws, you may remember a line from Quint's speech about the sinking of the Indianapolis, about them sailing from the island of Tinian to Leyte. (I've had characters follow that route a few times in stories I've written.) 'Tinnean' is how I chose to spell it, and my website, Tinnean t'Leyte, takes it one step further. Kind of a private joke between me and me. :-)
6. Do more people know you by your pseudonym or by your real name? :-)
More people know me by my pseudonym. My real name is quite boring, unless you go by the Italian translation.
::facedesk:: And that *has* to be more than you really wanted to know.