How did you choose your pseudonym?

[bluntforcemama]

Well, I was thinking about this in the grocery store, about how people choose their "undercover" names. I always want to change mine, too. Any good stories about name-picking? I was playing the game "Myst," and thought it sounded nice and feminine, only to have my other half call it a good porn name... which I really wasn't trying to do.... but hey, it works for me. I REALLY want to know how some of you wonderfully witty authors picked your names...

 

[KillerMuffin]

I've been Muffin since I was four and pronounced a virulent hatred for my given name. I earned Killer regarding certain, ah, habits of mine that involve biting.

 

[Weird Harold]

Well, I was thinking about this in the grocery store, about how people choose their "undercover" names.

My handle on the BB is the nickname I've had since 1969 when, at the peak of Bill Cosby's popularity, said "harold, you're weird."

My Nom de plume of Dirty Old Man is what my daughters called me when I told them I had written an erotic story. (it's a long standing joke that "Dad's a dirty old man" anyway.)

 

[bluntforcemama]

LOL.... I haven't yet been able to tell my family what I do on the side.... writing erotica. I think they'd disown me. I should've picked a "butch" name.... like Barbarella.... or Bubba-ette

 

[Weird Harold]

LOL.... I haven't yet been able to tell my family what I do on the side.... writing erotica.

What surprised me was my mother's reaction. She made me print a copy of one of my stories so she could brag about it to the lady that ran the local library in my hometown when I was in grade school. (circa 1955-60)

The only family member I won't volunteer the information that I write porn is my sister. She's such a prude, she'd probably have a stroke trying to "be understanding" about it.

 

[bluntforcemama]

I tried to tell my dad once that my other half kicks me in bed, and he covered his ears! I don't think he's prude, it's just that I'm his "little girl," and still a child to him. Besides, I think he checks out things on the web sometimes that are of an erotic nature, and God forbid that he's actually one of my few fans... or enemies.

 

[Guru]

 

[Angel]

Angel

Corny, but it was and still is my mommy's nick name for me. Even tho I am and have always been far from one. It caught on when I was little and my friends heard my mom call me it (How embarassing) They'd call me Angel to mock me about my mom's nickname for me, and by high school everyone was calling me Angel and it was as natural as my own name.

End highschool, started college, moved in with my dad and nobody knew me. The name Angel slowly drifted away until I came here and used it as my pseudonym.

 

[Alex De Kok]

I just wanted a name that could have been either male or female, and played about with a few - chose Alex at the finish. De Kok? I just liked the sound of it
(Try saying the full name out loud in a clipped accent with short vowel sounds and a long 'lex'!)
I was going to ask Laurel to leave the sex on my bio as '?' but it went in as 'M' and by then I'd had favourable response to my efforts writing first person female, so I left it.

Alex

 

[bluntforcemama]

Believe it or not, I actually know a guy who's last name is something like Dehcoch... and sounds just like Da Cock... poor guy.

 

[KillerMuffin]

Just oh my gawd. My father is a porn hound.

*blushing*

Hi Dad. Um, I didn't write it, yeah, that's uh, uh, my evil twin, uh, uh, Skippy. Yeah, Skippy did it and used my name.

 

[Closet Desire]

It was...

...the title of the first book of erotica we published. My family already doesn't talk to us...if they ever find the book they'll croak.

 

[Sonia_de_Beaumanoir]

Oh Mon Dieu!

You mean you're not supposed to use your real name?

 

[bluntforcemama]

Zut Alors!

Mais non, Mademoiselle! C'est d'accord, Je suis "Myst" en la vie, aussi. lol... Peut etre vous changez votre nom a Grand Dieu! C'est tres chic, mais si! Je ne sais pas les mots pour une femme de Grand Dieu... ou Zut Alors! Je parle francais seulement un peu... Je suis tres desole. Si vous voulez, vous enseignez moi plus, parce que Je suis tres mal a la langue d'amour. D'accord, Je pense que Je suis une cuillere! Lol... J'adore le mot. Salut! (C'est vrai?)

 

[bluntforcemama]

J'ai un Hamster qui nom est "Monsieur Un Peu!"

 

[Sonia_de_Beaumanoir]

Nice one

Myst speaks very good French it appears, although why she thinks she is a spoon I cannot tell.

If you are married, would your husband's name be Myster?

If he cums before penetration, he might be MysterCompletely.

And what are you doing to that hamster?

Sonia

 

[Guest]

HotScribe:
I'm a writer(scribe) of hot(erotic) stories.
After first checking out the thesaurus for
synonyms for "writer" I ended up with "scribe"
(which also fulfills my "heroic fantasy" interest.

 

[FeatherLight]

Jumps on in!

Well... FeatherLight came from two things. One: I'm a dancer, and I'm supposed to be light as a feather.

Besides, I've always had this weird fascination with that game "Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board..." Been trying to come up with an Erotica story about that one... *chuckles and wanders off*

Gee, I wonder what could be stiff like that???

 

[Guru]

 

[Flashman]

the OTHER problem

While such screen names as Siobhan O'Dildo, Colleen O'Moisture, Kathleen O'Sixtynine, and Kerrie O'Keefe may slightly raise a pole in your tent, they ultimately fail in their inability to deliver. The reader is left hanging, precariously, between abject boredom and plunging deeper into the excessively used and ohh-so-limited sexual recesses of the female psyche. As if preparing for some climatic event, the males drool copiously only to be, yet again, shut down as the female author rips off yet another term from ancient prose such as "...and the two became one..." Face it. Most women "just don't get it" about erotic literature. They start off great, yes, but usually stumble, fumble, and fail. Most women would rather buy shoes so that other women can't have them, than accurately describe the magic between women and men. I rest my case, Your Honor.

[Edited by Flashman on 02-08-2001 at 10:28 PM]

 

[CreamyLady]

I chose mine because I like whipped cream, and my then-lover liked to watch me eat it. It had nothing to do with the bedroom, mind; just the whipped cream from very rich desserts.

Also, it was the only thing I could come up with in a hurry. I was nerving myself to submit a story, and I didn't want to chicken out.

 

[Electric Barbarella]

Be aware that you're surrounded

Ah, Flashman, the eternal cynic, and do I detect a chauvanist in there? Perhaps you should stop with the women and go for men... Myst wanted to know how you became "Flashman," not how you feel about female writers and their descriptions of sex. If you're trying to become the enemy and target of many offended women, then congratulations, you've succeeded, now I suggest you go after the men, to even the score a bit. Oh... and "Flashman" doesn't make me want to cream my panties, either.



[Edited by Electric Barbarella on 02-09-2001 at 11:23 AM]

 

[bluntforcemama]

Hear, hear! Well said, EB.

 

[Sonia_de_Beaumanoir]

flashman

Flashman is the anti-hero of a series of comic novels by Gerge MacDonald Fraser. He is an officer in the British Army in Victorian times, but a cad and a coward. However, by a tremendous series of lucky chances, each act of cowardice turns to his benefit so that he is regarded as a hero.

These are clever books to read, but perhaps not the best pseudonym for an author (unless in the humour category).

Based on this post, he may well be in character.

Ca suffit pour l'instance
Sonia

 

[Andra_Jenny]

Since the net is a faceless place and I wanted to be gender nuetral and explore all areas of sexuality and thought without being pigeon-holed immediately...