Weekend Assignment #159

From JohnScalzi, the Blogfather, we have a new Weekend Assignment #159: Your Pen Name

You've decided to become a writer under a pen name. What pen name do you choose? Because, after all, writers use pen names all the time -- sometimes to maintain anonymity, sometimes to start a new career when their writing career under their real name has crashed and burned, and sometimes just because they want a different name than the one they were born with. You can assume any of the reasons for taking up a pen name. (No fair using a name that's taken: Your pen name can't be "Steve King" or "Jonathan Grisham" or some such.)

Ahhh... the perfect assignment for fledgeling writers such as I am! 

The first name is easy... instead of Dawn, I would use Aurora.  The latin version of my name, AND Sleeping Beauty's first name.  See the synchronicity... feel it... lol

The last name is tricky... but after thinking about it... I would use my dad's first name.  You see, I am his only child and a daughter, and although he has a brother, they had different father's.  So, I am the last of the line with my dad's name, my maiden name, although I do still have it hyphenated before my married name.

Anyhow, that would make my pen name Aurora Dennis. 

I like it!  It sounds like someone who would write a mystery thriller with a modern day witches, vampires and demons running around NYC, doesn't it?  lol

I never thought about using a pen name before, but I really do like the name!  Ya never know...right?

be well,
Dawn

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