Welcome to another Road Trip Wednesday, a ‘Blog Carnival,’ where YA Highway posts a weekly writing- or reading-related question and anyone can answer it on their own blogs.
This week’s topic is:
If you couldn’t use your own name, what would your pseudonym or penname be?
Well, as some of you know but many may not, I actually am using a pseudonym. Right now. At this very moment. Sarah Enni is, in fact, neither my given nor my married name.
I’ve always said I would use a pseudonym if I got published. Actually, I said this before I was even writing, when it was a kind of “when I circumnavigate the globe, I’ll fly the Finland flag!” kind of declaration, which is to say, a silly and far-fetched one said aloud purely for entertainment value.
But then I started writing, and decided to blog about it. I had to make the decision then if I wanted the blog to serve any kind of branding purpose, so I decided to go with Sarah Enni (Enni being a family name, and yes—it is Finnish, like my imaginary schooner’s flag). It’s unusual without being unpronounceable (en-knee), and though people frequently see my email and think I’m Sara Henni (a gross-looking and worse-sounding potato sack of a name, no offence to any Sara Hennis that are hopefully not lurking), I very much enjoy my writing name.
What about you?? Are you using a faux name? If you had to, what would you choose? Should we use the “name of the street you grew up on + name of your first pet” combo for pseudonyms (in which case I should change this blog to kristenaurora.com)?
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