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Changing my pen name
Now that I'm writing a lot of fanfic again (you know, I really thought I was done with this, but obviously all it takes is an intriguing fandom!) I really need a different nom de plume.
The thing is, "Sholio", my ff.net writing personality, was a pseudonym I used in a very different era of my life -- a footloose and fancy-free, non-home-owner, non-married era -- and tend to associate in my head with that era. It's also very strongly tied to my anime-fanfic-writing days in my mind. What all this adds up to is that I haven't been "Sholio" for years, don't really want to go back to being Sholio, and now that I'm back in fandom, have a hard time labeling myself that and responding to that.
Thought about using my real name, which I've kind of ended up doing anyway. It's an unusual enough name (Layla) that there aren't a ton of other people out there doing the same -- and that's who I think of myself as, anyway; I've never really worn 'net pseudonyms with the ease that some people do. The thing there is that I'd kinda like to keep my "pro" writing separate from my fanfic writing, as I don't really want prospective employers to Google for my real name and come up with a bunch of hits for fanfic.
What to do...
The thing is, "Sholio", my ff.net writing personality, was a pseudonym I used in a very different era of my life -- a footloose and fancy-free, non-home-owner, non-married era -- and tend to associate in my head with that era. It's also very strongly tied to my anime-fanfic-writing days in my mind. What all this adds up to is that I haven't been "Sholio" for years, don't really want to go back to being Sholio, and now that I'm back in fandom, have a hard time labeling myself that and responding to that.
Thought about using my real name, which I've kind of ended up doing anyway. It's an unusual enough name (Layla) that there aren't a ton of other people out there doing the same -- and that's who I think of myself as, anyway; I've never really worn 'net pseudonyms with the ease that some people do. The thing there is that I'd kinda like to keep my "pro" writing separate from my fanfic writing, as I don't really want prospective employers to Google for my real name and come up with a bunch of hits for fanfic.
What to do...
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But I don't really think of myself as "friendshipper" either. You're probably right that it would be the most logical choice, though.