Pen Name?

[amandidda.livejournal.com]

This was inspired by pythianlegume7's post a little down the page.


If you had to pick a pen name, what would it be?


I'm always curious to what people would say. I, personally, would keep my first (Amanda) and put my middle as a last (it's Gail but I would probably change the spelling to Gale)

Comments

[bambiblake007.livejournal.com]

i always said i'd use FRANCESCA SPENCER

others i've tossed around:
MANDY KAI FORD (KAI PRONOUNCED LIKE KAYE)
CLAUDIA WALKER
BAMBI BLAKE (MY USERNAME, LOL, WHICH THINK SOUNDS MORE LIKE A STRIPPER NAME)
D.G. HURLEY (MY CURRENT FAVE, THE INITIALS ARE SHORT FOR DANIKA GREY)

[rosemere-rat.livejournal.com]

Silver Fox

Used it since 6th grade.

[calamitysxchild.livejournal.com]

Probably either Jocelyn Rhodes or Josie Rhodes. Jocelyn is my full name and Josie my nickname, and Rhodes is my mother's maiden name and I just like it better than my last name. The first might sound more professional and I like that, but I kind of like how the second flows as well. ;)

[perplexitygirl.livejournal.com]

Eh, I would use an anagram of my first and last name. So, probably Adrien Florance.

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

Shadow Beechwood is my stripper name or porn name or whatever, so I'd probably just use that.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

You had a dog or cat named Shadow I take it?

[rowan-belle.livejournal.com]

Yup a cat. And I grew up on Beechwood St :D

[arbus.livejournal.com]

pippa sweet!

its been high on my girls list (as a first and middle) for eons but its slowly transitioned into becoming a guilty pleasure name only.

if i were a writer, thats so the name i would use!

[queenfinn.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...

Shannon Adams (a much easier last name than the one I have!)
Emma Callahan
Leo Callaway
Emma North

[makeitstopjamie.livejournal.com]

Alice Sunshine it was my alter ego's name.

[samaside.livejournal.com]

My name is way too awesome not to use if I ever wrote something. That said, if I had to use something else I'd consider the following names: Sam King, Spencer Cate, Spencer Durden Cate, or Caitlin Ronning.

[breenah.livejournal.com]

Sabel Morningview
Gabriella Montague
Illyriah Rose

[in_excelsis_dea.livejournal.com]

I've considered using my first and middle names: Jennifer Joyce. But I'm not sure if Joyce is something I should use, with James Joyce and all.

I don't really want to use my real last name. Though I might consider using an ancestor's last name, I wouldn't use my mother's maiden name either. I would like to keep at least the Jennifer, though.

[harvestlunacorn.livejournal.com]

My pen name is Rya McShme. I've used it for about 10 years now, especially on the internet because I don't want to post my real name and I just don't like my name.
Anyway, Rya is my nickname(short for Mariah) and McShme is just inside jokes from school put together.

[skittles22088.livejournal.com]

Charisma Coventry was my pen name in middle school. Nowadays I would keep my last name (Raeder) and use some of my favorite girls names that my husband doesn't really like:

Cassidy Raeder
Denali Raeder
Karigan Raeder
Lucy Raeder
Persephone Raeder
Sienna Raeder

[nobodynomore.livejournal.com]

A.E Connelly will be mine, should I ever publish a book.

[http://users.livejournal.com/--r0mance/]

Jillian Wiess or Angela Hall

[sunshinefleur.livejournal.com]

Maisy Lawrence -- it's my "stripper" name and I kind of think it's cute, haha.

[catean.livejournal.com]

Kathryn Wesley - My first name and my mom's maiden name.

[cybeleadam.livejournal.com]

Cybèle Adam is my pen name, although I'm now so used to it that it feels weird to write my real name on official papers.

I took a first name that has familiar sounds ("ee" and "bell"...which is probably not exactly how it sounds to you, but when it's pronounced by a French speaking person, "Cybèle" is close to "see-BELL") and that is much less common than my real first name (Isabelle, one of the most common names for girls my age here).
As for Adam, it's a rather common last name here, and I thought of using it because it was already attached to "Cybèle" in my mind, Cybele being the name of singer Adam Pascal's wife.

[tiphanism.livejournal.com]

I've had mine picked out for a while (though if I ever needed it, I might change my mind seven times first....) It's a first name that I love but that fiance really doesn't like, so it's off my names-for-children list, and a surname that some of my ancestors had but is now extinct in the male line, at least in this branch.

[monkey-fruit.livejournal.com]

I probably wouldn't use any of these now, but they were taken into consideration years ago. :)

Jaden Isabella Berry: Jaden Isabella was going to be my little sister's name, before she became my little brother. I liked it, so I stole it. Berry is part of my surname. (Jaden and Isabella were not yet popular...)

L. Weaver (Elle Weaver?): I used to sign everything "L," but then had to stop because the anime/manga 'Death Note' came out and became popular. (This makes sense of you've seen/read it.) Weaver is my mum's maiden name.

Lily Weaver: Again, my mum's maiden name. Lily comes from putting girls' names I liked into a hat and pulling one out.

Cidalfous Maple and Benny Portland: My very un-stripper-like stripper names, lol.

Maddy Hatter- Alice in Wonderland. Used this years ago on the forum-esque site, Gaia Online.

Shay Loren- Shay is part of my first name. Loren (pronounced like Sophia Loren's surname) is my mum's name.

[aquilinum.livejournal.com]

My love for unusual names is surpassed only by my desire to show my former classmates that yes, it is I who am now an author!

Should I get published, I'm definitely using my real name.





... But when I was little, I wanted to write under the pseudonym Daisy Lane.

[snailrevolution.livejournal.com]

I've never needed a pen name, but I've tossed around a few ideas.

Valerie Perlman - for my favorite girls' name combo.
Marilyn Conal - From my and my sister's middle names and a variant on my real surname.