With the submission of a short story under my own name, I know that--if I do get published--it would be hard to write other than suspense/thriller stories under my name. A lot of writers have done it; in particular, my favourite author Stephen King even wrote under the pen name Richard Bachman.
The reason why I'm contemplating my pen name is because of an episode-story-style website that my friend and I will be writing... Eventually haha. We've been sitting a story idea since early high school, and a few months ago I pitched the idea of doing an episode-style of writing and make it a website*, and she agreed.
Unfortunately, my favoured pen name which I have had since early high school, Zandra Diphase, is the name of the first character I had created for this story that we want to launch. Upsetting, right? And I just don't have the heart to change the character's name so that I can keep that name, so I have decided to figure out a new pen name in which I can write under.
I'm sure a lot of my fellow writers will agree: picking a name, whether it be for a character or yourself, can be challenging. After looking through previous names in which I have named some of my favourite characters, I've decided that I want the first name of my pen name to be "Lexi". It's similar to my name, and I'm rather comfortable with it (though, if you call me that in person, I may smack you). As for the last name, that's where the question is. I was thinking "Zone", but when telling some of my friends, it doesn't seem to have the effect of 'wow'ness that Zandra Diphase had.
If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, feel free to mention it to me. But I guess, for now, my new pen name will be Lexi Zone.
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*Side-note: We're still looking for an editor who would like to do some 'volunteer' editing for this website. Of course if the website does eventually have some sort of income, the money will be divided up between everyone equally.
