Should You Be Using a Pen Name? by Helen Sedwick.
For years I wrestled with how to credit myself as a blog author. I was conflicted as to whether I should use my real name or a pseudonym. Somewhere along the line, I reached what I considered a happy medium; I used different variations of my name for different blogs.Yes. If it’s your work, you can write under a pseudonym, later have it changed to “X writing as Pseudonym” and finally just leave it as “X” or any other permutation. So long as it’s your book, you can muck around as much as you like. However, your.Whatever your reason for choosing to write using a pseudonym, you have to remember anonymity can only go so far. You need to cover the legal side of things, signing contracts and protecting copyrights; and of course, you do want to be paid. You will have to give your real name, but you can add “writing as” in front of your pseudonym to.
An author might also decide to use a pseudonym if they write for very different genres and don’t want to confuse their readers. Lewis Carroll is one famous example—having written Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland under his well-known pen name, and his mathematical papers under his actual given name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.Should you use a pseudonym? The use of pseudonyms isn't nearly as necessary for some authors as it may have once been. In decades and centuries past, women often published under male pseudonyms to increase the likelihood that their work would be respected, while the desire for privacy or to uphold family honor drove writers of all genders to take up a pen name or two.
And, no, it’s not what you are thinking. On the flip side, some people find that using their real name opens doors to further opportunities. A great example of this is Kerry Taylor from SquawkFox, who received a book deal based on the quality of the writing on her blog. You can read her story here. Using Your Real Name Online is a Personal.
