/lit/ - Literature

Because it is the literary equivalent of being a fat ugly fuck playing a video game yet you make your in-game avatar an attractive in-shape girl with huge boobs. The pen name is too frequently "the you that you would like to be." It's usually something corny as well. Anyone who uses a pen name as opposed to their real one may be dismissed as a worthless coward with nothing of value to say, terrified that their sincere beliefs or literary efforts may tarnish their already-pathetic real world identity.

>>23134410
>George Eliot

>>23134410
This but with people hiding behind Anonymous

>>23134410
My name is kinda ridiculous so it will look made up to most folks. Cursed stuff. Initials dont look much better, last name is too long

>>23134421
Mr Peterson was right about anonymity on the internet being a bad thing.
A pseudonym is donned by spineless, hateful people who are intellectual black holes.

>>23134434
I agree.

>>23134433
I feel you, i'm a Spaniard so using my 3 last names and 74 baptismal names is not practical. I usually use just one of my last names and my first baptismal name.

>>23134403
courage

I've done a lot of ghostwriting, having my work published in someone else's name as well as my own. Mostly because I was only writing to pay the bills.

Many things I've had published without my name on them, nothing "subversive" or "polemic" mostly just dry material on practical things.

>>23134442
That isnt so bad, latinos/spainards can get away with longer names and sound cool. I have an oddball old biblical first name with goofy ass dutch last name.

>>23134490
my majorcan friend is called rosa espinosa de las rocas, it means 'lady thorny rose from the rocks'

>>23134506
now that's a good pen name

>>23134526
better than her maternal cousin dolores fuertes de barriga 'violent pains of the stomach'

>>23134403
Why would someone make a second celinechud after I made this one and posted it here a year ago?

>>23134556
i like OPs better

wtf celine was a doctor too? it seems no good author is an author by profession.

>>23134571
He was a doctor, a decorated warhero, an author of fiction and essays, a pamphleteer.

>>23134410
>you make your in-game avatar an attractive in-shape girl with huge boobs. The pen name is too frequently "the you that you would like to be.
It's a name, retard, not your world of warcraft account. There's no picture. You sound desperately in need of touching grass.

>>23134610
t. Damien Shadowfield

>>23134410
The climate of competence is shit, it's shit. People cannot separate art from artist and understand that a writer may be presenting something he doesn't endorse or believe in and is doing it purposefully to get a specific reaction. They think Guts is a true story.

Unless you have a trust fund or write anodyne genre trash that can only offend safe targets that are terminally offended anyway, I don't see the point in having your government name out there in the internet age.

>>23134587
damn, interesting guy.

>>23134410
>T. Normoid who has never had a thought not condoned by mass media

>>23134403
In other words, you're a coward.

>>23134403
yeah because you are not a faggot. This author published last month and essentially revealed a bunch of dirty secrets and he has not even been sued yet. I keep checking the VA court records to see if him or the publishing company is getting sued. Worse thing I can tell is that the book, Imperium Invictum, essentially cannot get any conventional publicity which makes sense. One of the things the author tells us is exactly who owns Trump and how 2016/2020 went down. He reveals an assassination of a US congressman that killed a few hundred other people, he lists like a thousand names in the back of the book as an index of who is part of a global conspiracy and still this book is being sold and website is online. He also basically threatens the ruling class in the book and says if they try to shut him up he will just spill their tea or start killing them lol. A literal paragraph from book in image as example of this from chapter 13. The dude has even been selling it on Amazon for a month. Here is website if you wanna see the first few chapters for free. http://imperiuminvictum.com

>>23134410
>this nigga really wrote this as anonymous

>>23134410
Don't you ever talk to me or my board ever again.

>>23134542
Kek that can't be true

>>23134410
you retard
>>23134403
the only reason pen names exist is to sound cool, I'm not gonna read anything from "Joe Johnson" but I would at least consider reading something from "Frederik Sebastian Grey" or some shit. It's just a part of self-branding and appeal

>>23138224
My dog was named Oliver.

>>23136796
Buy an ad, faggot