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Question of the day thread number 2!
Pengi:
My penname was because I love penguins. I always have. So I shortened it to sound cool and it comes out Pengi. At the time when I made up the screen name, I just liked the way it sounded. Then I go on cruise and Steph informs me that "Pengi San" is actually the Japanese word for "The Penguin" and she thought that I knew that all along and I just felt so awesome because no really I had no clue. I have since used the name Pengi as my creative alter-ego in ever facet, including my Graphic Design work, where my "company name" is "Hello Pengi" and my catchphrase is "My name is Hannah but everyone calls me Pengi" and my logo's a Penguin. I've already published Graphic Design work using the name Pengi and I completely intend to publish under the name Pengi - no lastname! - if/when I ever get published. But it won't be a secret what my real name is, either. More like J.K.Rowling, whose real name is common knowledge. Everyone at my college knew me as Pengi. One kid had no clue my name WASN'T Pengi and got all confused at graduation and was like "wait.... that's a NICKNAME? Seriously?" cos everyone there called me that all the time. LOL
Purpura Lipstick:
When I first started with my website online I was kind of embarassed at what I was doing so I wanted to hide behind a different name. I had another site where I did the same thing, hid behind an alter ego but that site died before CYDMR came along.
As a group the girls of CYDMR are Purple Lipstick which has a connection to Nick in a dream a friend of mine had which consisted of a certain part of Nick being a tube of purple lipstick in her dream. I am sure you can figure out which part. So to tell us apart on the site I decided that each girl would have their individual name be purple in another language so that we all really were still Purple Lipstick :)
I would definitely NOT use that name in publishing, I don't wan to explain that! LOL.
I am using Lorena Lee to publish. It is my first and middle name... When I first decided I wanted to work on a book to publish I was already married and did NOT want to use Williams as there are several Williams' already. I shelved books, I saw this. So I was going to use my maiden name when I published because there were no authors with that last name that I saw on the shelves. I told hubby and he seemed upset that I wasn't going to use his last name but opted for my maiden name. To remedy I decided no last name, just first and middle.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 10, 2012, 06:54:39 AM ---Today's question: while it's in my head lol
How did you come up with your pen name/screen name & if you were ever published would you use your real name?
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When I submitted my first fanfic to be hosted on a website, I was only 14 and had been warned about the dangers of giving your real info out online, so I made up a pen name. At the time, I was more worried about my friends, who were all still BSB fans at the time, finding my story than I was about To Catch a Predator type people. Nowadays, it's more my students I'd be worried about finding my stuff! I picked an ordinary-sounding name so that no one would even suspect it was a pen name. Julie was the name of this girl I was jealous of because she was going out with the guy I liked LOL, and I think Lewis was just the first last name that popped into my head, although it may have been the character Susan Lewis from "ER" that inspired it.
As far as RokofAges75, that's been my screenname for all things BSB/fanfic-related for almost as long, since 2000. It's completely Brian-related, since he's always been my favorite. He got that Rock of Ages tattoo, so I combined that with his nickname and 75 for the year he was born.
If I got published, I think it would depend on what kind of material I was publishing, but if it were anything I would be embarrassed to think my students, colleagues, or RL friends might read, I'd probably stick with a pen name. It's weird considering how much we share of ourselves on here, but I'm super reserved about my writing in real life, to the point that no one but my family even knows I do it. Maybe the honor of being published would give me the confidence boost I'd need to share my writing with other people, but somehow I doubt it!
Carter-Orange:
My screen name is quite easy, we all know the Carter part, but the Orange part is after Jason Orange from Take That, who is my other boyband love :)
(For anyone who doesn't know him)
I decided to use a name like that rather than my real name because I didn't want anyone seeing what I'd posted. No one knows about my writing, not even my closest friends (they are the ones I'd dread finding my stuff). I was known as Steph4Jason on another site.
If I ever published anything, I'd go back to my name before I got married, or maybe Stephanie Jane (which is my first name and middle name).
Sakabelle:
Lots of questions to answer...
--- Quote ---What are some of your favorite group centered stories & why?
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I definitely love Why I'd Do It All Again and A Million Little Things by Mare. Those are stories that I've gone back and revisited numerous times just because they're so well written. Mare does a great job of getting inside the boys' heads and creating fiction around real life events. They're really fun reads that flow really well. I just love them.
--- Quote ---List a few group centered stories you have written. What do you enjoy most about writing these types of stories? If you don't write them, why?
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Running Up That Hill is the first time I've really tried to write something about the group that's longer than a one-shot. It's fun because I get to transport myself back to that time and really dig deep into what the boys might have been thinking. I try to connect that time with little hints as to what would happen in the future for the boys themselves and as a group. It's an interesting project and character study for me.
--- Quote ---What's your favorite character (one BSB one original) from someone else's story?
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Lately it's been Brian in Borrowed Time. Hannah does an amazing job at getting in Brian's head and creating the build up to him needing his heart surgery. He's an extremely sympathetic character, and for me, that's really hard to do with Brian because sometimes he just bothers me. But in this story it's very easy to see why he's going through what he's going through and it's very realistic. If I were to guess how Brian was back in 1998, I'd say he'd be like this.
Original character... I'm going to go with Cary from Curtain Call. Julie did an excellent job in crafting her back story so that she fits perfectly into Nick's situation, but she's also her own character and her own person enough that she doesn't just seem like a plot point. She's so different than the type of girl I normally read about Nick associating with that I couldn't help but root for her and Nick to get together haha. But honestly, she's just a very real, very well developed character.
--- Quote ---How did you come up with your pen name/screen name & if you were ever published would you use your real name?
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Oh God LOL. First of all, my old penname from the FanFiction.net days is horrid and amazing. It was sNICKers. And I still use it to post Avatar fiction sometimes. I'm sure people on there wonder why the hell the NICK is capitalized. God, what a dorky nickname lol. I don't even know how or why my 13 year old self decided on that.
For Sakabelle... it's kind of weird. I've used this name for everything for nearly ten years. It's actually two parts. The "Saka" comes from my love of pink... my old anime nickname used to be Sakura (those pink cherry blossom flowers they have in Japan and use excessively in girls comics.) The "belle" is a shortened version of my medieval roleplay persona, Annabelle De Riston, from when I used to be into that. I merged the two because I created a LiveJournal and I had friends on there from both groups. I like the name and I've stuck with it for everything ever since. Even though I'm not really involved with either of those crowds anymore. It's really easy to find anything and everything I've ever done by this name, including AC, which my real life friends have discovered more than once. To counter that, when I started posting more Avatar stuff on FanFiction.net, I didn't use sNICKers or Sakabelle because a lot of my RL friends go on that site and I never, ever wanted them to find my Avatar stuff. So I created an entire fake alias, fake name, fake back story. I even changed my age I was so terrified of them finding out it was me! It's the same one I use for 1DFF too because if anyone ever found that, I would probably die. I could live with people finding my BSB fic I think... but not that.
I'd probably go by my real name, Stephanie Ives, if I got published. Don't see a reason not to. If I ever got published no way I'd be able to keep my mouth shut about it, so I might as well use my real name! lol
Or actually, if I got published writing trashy romance novels, I'd use my first name and the Italian version of my mom's maiden name - Bevacqua. Stephanie Bevacqua sounds like a good trashy romance novelist name. Haha!
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