Friday, June 27, 2008
27 June 2008, Friday
Today we're talking pen names *whoopee* I originally had my heart set on using my real name - well an initialled version of it anyway. I thought I had it all figured out until I bumped into a whole bunch of rules about pen names which totally threw me out of sync.
Apparently, readers should be able to at least know how to say your name. So my real name? Who in the world is going to be able to pronounce it? Gods, at times even I have trouble pronouncing it myself. And spelling it? Yea well, I have little hopes of any one remembering how to spell such a complicated name so lets not go there. Soo... scrap that. Instead I chose Trisana le Chante but the problem with this is that it makes me sound un-asian and people might think, from the sound of my name, that I'm quite English or something.
Dang it all! Now my pen name sounds as though I'm trying to be a French or at least an English person when really I'm not. So what the hell is a gal to do? I'm stuck in such a god awwfal dilemma and I wish I could say shucks it all, I'll do whatever I please, but I can't.
So... your wondering why an aspiring writer with not a chance of ever getting published is even worried about her pen name? You're right; why am I worried?! Sheesh!
