Fo’ shizzle, blood.
Pretty good, but not enough profanity or misogeny. Except you’re female, so it would be radical feminism or something.

Bravo, bravo, bravissimo…

Where in the world have you been hiding? Really, you were perfect. I only wish I knew your teacher. Who is this new tutor?

From memory, so may not be exact.

As funny as the image of a sixteen-year-old girl rapping in a stereotypical rapper’s voice? I think not.

Well, of course you would. You enjoy being difficult.

here we go. I spent the last ten or so minutes doing this on paint.

Guess who?

Wait, WHAT? I thought you always wore that style of clothing. And that isn’t me, either.

Lol. I take it you think I have no future in writing rap.

grammar nazi will h8r u if you don’t fix up that you’re

You know who that is?

So, who are those faces?

Oh, of course. How silly of me, not recognising myself like that.

So, pen names.

As a person who has the unfortunate distinction of having an obviously created name as their first name, a nom de plume is something I'll be employing. I'm sick and tired of getting comments like "You've got such a neat pen name!" whenever I submit writing under my given name. -_-

So I'm considering a couple of pen names for the different genres I write in. Fantasy and sci-fi I'm thinking of using Lexis K. Lavernne. Lexis means law, Laverne was the Roman goddess of petty thieves (I adore irony), and the K is a reference to my online writing pseudonym.

What do you all think?

Not telling. >.> You can literally track me down with it with a simple Google search.

Yeah, well, with just my first name, you'd find out my last name and which village I live in. Way too close for comfort.

Anyway, even though I like my last name (Pickell), everyone mispronounces it as the food item. So it's obviously created first name + food item = a snarky pen name which isn't a pen name.

Yup. :D

I suppose it doesn't help that I write primarily parodic/ironic stuff... XD

He was okay on SNL..

For a few months, I remember that when you googled my name, you got a stripper.

Haha. XD

I remember being extreeemely startled by Zac Efron popping up in Firefly, of all places, and then laughing at the ridiculously-obviously-dubbed voice.

At one point, his name was bandied around as a possible casting choice for Light in the planned American-made Death Note film. I will never forget this, nor forgive the executive who thought it might be a good idea.

To be fair, in the pictures I’ve seen he does look quite a bit like Light, and if his detractors have the right of it, he is certainly evil enough for the part.

But it would bring the project to the attention of his fangirls! And that might be bad, maybe!

In the episode “Safe”, the one with the Big Damn Heroes line. He played a young!Simon.

Omg!!! [goes back and watches that episode, then spends the weekend watching the rest]

You’re right!

It does sound just a little too impossibly dashing, like “Perdita X. Dream”, although it does roll off the tongue nicely.

I think I would use a pen name- Tyler Kinghorn makes me sound like a Scottish cowboy/tile layer/roofer, and Un-Dante’d goes against rule #36 in the Fantasy Novelist’s Exam.

I was thinking Reginald Baxter, and have a mock-history of being like that man from the Dos Equis commercial.

Maybe I’ll use an azn one so people don’t think I’m just some white guy ripping off another culture wholesale. I am that, but I don’t want people to know.

azn?

Asian.

To Beatrice: Darling, Dearest, Dead.

To Beatrice: Darling, Dearest, Dead.

“For Beatrice-I cherished, you perished, The world’s been nightmarished.”

On topic: I do want a more Asian sounding pen name. I mean, in this case, I am Asian, so it’s different.

@Un-Dante’d
I suppose. But it’s kind of because my surname is very mainstream and isn’t usually associated with the right country. And nearly no one outside of my family knows my extremely “exotic” third name.

...Is my name Mary Sue-ish? It just occurred to me that my full name could very well be considered so.

Hua Yei Jong…quil…

A jonquil is a kind of flower, but if that was the pun’s whole meaning, it was pretty lame.

Was the jongquil thing intentional?

If I could’ve understood it, I would have thought it was mildly perplexing, then amusing.

But I’m not fluent in Chinese.

I’m conversationally fluent in Mandarin.

Can’t read or write for my life, though.

shame

...

I cannot speak.

In the case that it wasn’t as obvious to you as it was to me, I was trying to emulate her.

I cannot reference things well.

I would like to say, though, that I could srsly imagine her saying that.

Oh.

Ah. That has happened to me.

Guests reading this thread, I pity you. Make an account. Plz.

I promise ( _erm ) that it will be simple and easy. You don’t even need to post!

It’s a bit annoying because the lurkers are most often the people who have the best stuff to say.

Indeed. If it isn’t the best stuff, then it’s some interesting stuff.

We need moar posters. I’ll let you in on a secret image: picture me at my laptop clicking F5 (refresh) over and over, switching tabs, and then returning to refresh.

A pen name might be good for me. My first name isn’t very authorish, and it’s quite common now.

man, my full name is a dog’s dong. Not like getting published is gonna happen though.

If I ever did get published, I’d definitely keep my last name. Why? Because it starts with an N, which means I’d be right in my favorite part of the library—for some reason, all my favorite authors are between J and P! (except for Tolkien and a few others) There’s Jacques, Levine, Lewis, Pratchett, Korman, McKinley… As a kid, that was how I found all my favorite authors, because I was always over in the J-K-L corner of the middle school library, and I always dreamed that someday, when I was a Famous Author ^TM, my books would be there too, and some day there’d be some kid poking around in that same corner and would find my books there!

If I’m ever published, I’d think I’d use a pen name. Mostly because I’m paranoid about stalkers >.< I’d pick something plausible and generic like Mary Smith (but not that generic, because that’s too obvious). I’d also probably invent a sort of true, but very vague biography to put in the author blurb so that even people who know me couldn’t figure out that I was the author.

Sorry for resurrecting this thread, but I finally thought of a pen name I like, which is important because, though I like my name, it’s not a very good author name.

Anyway, what do you think about Althea Wolf? (Which has the benefit of honoring both sets of late grandparents, but not directly in case they wouldn’t like what I write.)