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I'm wondering about my self imposed dry spell. And I'm shaking my head at it.
I'm wondering about pseudonyms. I want to write books and poetry for children. And I want to write short stories and fiction for young-adults and adults. But, and some of you are already well aware of this, I tend to write about things that aren’t suitable for children and I don’t really want my writing for adults to be associated with what I’d be writing for kids. It’s the Lemony Snicket / Daniel Handler conundrum. Sure, even his kids books are a bit dark and twisted, but in a way that’s totally wonderful, witty and appropriate.
His book Watch Your Mouth is an operatic exercise in incest intrigue and pornography. Sort of. Understandable that he’d not want Daniel Handler beneath his A Series of Unfortunate Events. Of course, the pseudonym may have had less to do with modesty and more to do with his desire to be clever and have Snicket be an actual character in A Series of...’.
Anyhoo, I’m wondering what you guys think. If you were writing for kids, and writing for adults, and you wanted to use pseudonyms, would you want your real name attached to the adult works, or the kids? Seems like it would be more fun to get creative about coming up with an author’s name that kids’ would think super duper fun and strange.
Also wondering if any of this is necessary, as there are plenty of authors who write for adults and for kids, and just have the one name. But I love coming up with fun names!
Wondering if visual artists ever do this. Painters are sometimes accused of not being focused if they exhibit artwork that is varied in style. One could avoid this silly criticism if one simply submitted different styles of art work with different names. Tricky tricksters.
I’m also wondering what I’m going to do this weekend with no plans, little cash, and a desire to do something fun and social.
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