If you wrote something and wanted/needed to make up a name for your writerly self, what would it be?

*she who never shuts up!

I think I would use either my maiden name or my mother-in-law's maiden name, Malmer, except that Marianne Malmer would sound a bit too much like a nom de plume to a Swedish reader. Or even like an actress.

Anyway, I thought I would use an interesting combination of my mother's maiden name and a fragment of my father's name that I rather liked. Now of course if I ever succeed in actually completing anything I'll be so proud of myself I'll definitely use my full real name!

Rosefolly

I'd either use my own name, or something equally nondescript.

BTW, my porn name is Rainy Arthur (we didn't call the dog that, we inherited her!).

I might use my mother's real first name, which she has never used, and her maiden name. So it would actually be mother's name but no one would recognize it.

I once knew a woman called Christine Loveday - how's that for a good name? It certainly rolls nicely off the tongue.

Well, I have lots of names picked out, now I just need the book.

Ann, I would love to read your article about the guinea pig show. I wrote horoscopes for my summer camp newsletter, which I also edited (hah hah). Even though I told everyone that I just made them up, everyone read them avidly and claimed they were spot on. I called myself Miss Katie Stardust.

You need to get a grip on reality.

I was Miss X on our high school newspaper, giving advice to the lovelorn. Heaven help them.

Corky Betzwood......you know, Corky Betzwood could write cozy straight to paperback mysteries starring a clever yet disappointed in love amateur girl detective. Perhaps a forest ranger? (chef, reporter, coffee shop owner, tea shop owner, scrapbook expert, map seller, bakery owner, secretary, cleaning lady, high school English teacher, bookstore owner, stay-at-home mom...those are all taken.)

My porn star name would be 'Grendal Hunter'..... not much to be done with that though it's quite evocative (our first cat we called 'Grendal' because it b it the head off things). For my actual writing name, I simply went back to my maiden surname with my actual forename. I never liked changing my name when I got married anyway (these days you don't need to) even though it was quite a nice name; and since my ex was a writer, I didn't want to be associated with him - wanted to make it under my own aegis or not at all.