What’s in a name?

[Agiel]

I chose my name from a tv series in which the agiel is a weapon wielded by a Mord-Sith who are a group of very attractive, but sadistic, warrior ladies who look very sexy in their leather outfits. No comments please as to what this might reveal about me!!

I also chose it because it’s short and takes no time at all to type.

Without revealing any private/personal details about yourself what made you choose your name?

 

[purplishy]

Bet you can't guess my favorite color!

I hope this name also conveys a sense of being silly, self-aware and good-natured (as in: not too dark). I aim for all of these in my writing.

In retrospect, it was a serious error to choose a name that is basically un-searchable. I still like it though

 

[KeithD]

I chose my current account name because of all of the irrelevant riffing that was done by board attackers on my previous account name just to be nasty. My current account name has no connection in the least to the real me.

 

[SamScribble]

My pen name was chosen for me.

'Sam' was given to me by a teacher on my first day at primary school. (There was already another lad with exactly the same name as me in the class.)

'Scribble' was given to me by a writer I met at a garden party. Most of the people at the party were either writers or editors or artists. One of the women asked if I was an artist. 'Just a humble scribbler,' I told her.

'Then I shall call you Mr Scribble,' she said. And she did.

 

[EarlyMorningLight]

Mine just popped into my head one day, I checked it wasn't taken, and that was that. It's the kind of thing that I'm prone to overthink if I let myself, so I just committed.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

Mine just popped into my head one day, I checked it wasn't taken, and that was that. It's the kind of thing that I'm prone to overthink if I let myself, so I just committed.

Same goes. A few others I'd thought of were taken. Smuttyandfun, hopefully describes the way I write, so I went with it.

 

[DouglasFinney]

Douglas Finney is a derivation of my “porn star name,” generated by using the name of my first pet for my given name and the street that I grew up on for my surname.

I grew up on Phinney Avenue, but I changed the spelling because I didn’t want “DP” for my initials. “Finney” also looks better with my suffix.

My given name is not as straightforward. My first pet’s name was “Balthazar,” so named after the second volume of Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet.

As a tot, I couldn’t pronounce Balthazar. I also had a penchant for irony. I called things by their opposite designation: hot was cold and dogs were cats; a hot dog was a “cold cat”; Balthazar the cat was “Doggy-Doggy” (pronounced, by me, as “Doigy-Doigy”). Neither Doggy nor Doigy would do, so Doug—and Douglas—became the obvious choice.

Moreover, “DouglasFinney” was available both as a Lit username and as an email handle—the latter with just a tiny tweak.

And there you have it!

 

[lanceGibs]

Mine comes from a family where my grandad and parents were influenced by Mervyn Whittaker.
I have siblings named Aurther and Merlin too.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Mine came from a business name, completely unrelated, electric xxxxxx.

When I joined Lit, I added blue because, eye colour. "Electricblue" was already taken (by some bastard who has zero activity on Lit), so a number was needed. The 66 has nothing to do with age or dob, nor two thirds of the beast.

Any connection to the Icehouse song is acceptable, and the abbreviation EB is enough to torment Simon, so that's acceptable too .

 

[Haulover]

I took my username from my and my wife's official "happy place":

 

[tenyari]

"TenyarI" is the name of the main character in the first ever erotic story I began writing around 2002 or so, but have never been able to finish.

I got a few hundred pages in and then realized I had no plot, I was just describing my protagonist wandering through an exotic location, and so it got tabled for a re-write that has been done many times over in my head in the years since.

I actually have a solid plot lined up now, as a sort of 'Jekyll and Hyde' kind of story where the protagonist and antagonist are the same person. But I still have to sit down and write it.

 

[Winter_Fare]

For slow cooked chilli
And roast with all the trimmings
Especially stuffing

 

[Agiel]

Also, I love Legend of the Seeker, both the book and the show. I should revisit the book soon.

The stories I read on Lit are the same as I write. Make believe and fantasy (not to be confused with sci-fi). Because for most people, including myself, 95%+ of their daily life is mundane. We don’t save damsels in distress or leap tall buildings.

I feel sorry for those who can’t get the full pleasure from Lit because they genuinely can’t distinguish between fantasy and reality. As for those who pretend not be able to separate the two…

 

[Seadog777]

My name is my name.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I chose mine because it's feminine and clever and for whatever imagery it might evoke in people's imaginations.

 

[Whanmore]

I chose mine because it's feminine and clever and for whatever imagery it might evoke in people's imaginations.

I love it ...and i love your explanation!

 

[Whanmore]

Mine came from a business name, completely unrelated, electric xxxxxx.

When I joined Lit, I added blue because, eye colour. "Electricblue" was already taken (by some bastard who has zero activity on Lit), so a number was needed. The 66 has nothing to do with age or dob, nor two thirds of the beast.

Any connection to the Icehouse song is acceptable, and the abbreviation EB is enough to torment Simon, so that's acceptable too .

I thought your name was too cool

 

[Whanmore]

I just thought What am I? Now inverse

 

[Duleigh]

I once had two dachshunds, they were named after these two world famous beer mugs, Schultz and Dooley the beer mugs were used in beer commercials for Utica Club beer and voiced by Jonathan Winters, you can find the ads on YouTube, they were hilarious. Duleigh (he was lousy at spelling) was with us for 16 years and he looked like my avatar. He was still with us when I used his name as a username here back in 2004.

 

[titusfabulous]

I borrowed it from an Eddie Izzard joke: "There should've been an Emperor Fabulous."

 

[MsNatalie99]

It's my name

 

[Carnevil9]

I didn't want to make up a name myself, because I was afraid I would subconsciously be giving some sort of clue to my real identity. So I decided to turn on the radio and use whatever the first song they played was. And there you have it.

 

[Eviehere]

Hi, I'm Evie, and I'm here.

(Some may say "not all here" though.)

 

[Eviehere]

I didn't want to make up a name myself, because I was afraid I would subconsciously be giving some sort of clue to my real identity. So I decided to turn on the radio and use whatever the first song they played was. And there you have it.

Well, it is shorter to type than "Fanfare for the common man."

 

[Btq97]

Its is based on a work username from many decades ago. I saw based it is a typo.