On one hand, my name is a cheap way to promote my MC for a book I'm working (slacking) on. That way if someone picks up my book and sees "Gonissa" on the back cover, they'll be like, "Hey, I think I know that chick!" On the other hand, Gonissa as a word was something I thought I made up, though apparently it's a greek name or somethin'. In any case, the character represents how I used to see myself: a monster, but a nice one. One that tries to be good, but is always scaring people away.
I picked my username "DeeLoves2Write", because it best explains what I'm about. Writing to me is continual growth/improvement process...plus, it's engaging, it's fun, and it makes me feel worthwhile.
"Domino" was the title of my first full-length story, which I wrote when I was eight - gasp - twenty years ago. (Before that I only wrote short stories. )
After realizing that the usernames I used when I was 12-14 were stupid, I just switched to one of my character's names and use it for everything now. If I get to a forum or game early enough, I usually use my real name. But Matt and Matthew are usually taken.
My username comes from a city in a story I'm writing. Drommin is it's name, and Eastdrom, Westdrom and Southdrom and common abbreviations that the residents from each district use. Though some find it most uncouth! Thanks for asking : P
I actually really like this. It's creative without being too weird. It's always a risk for fantasy/sci-fi writers to come up with place names that are unpleasing to say even if they can be pronounced. This here is really cute, and it sounds like people would actually say this in a real town.
Ananda means "bliss" in Pali. I wanted to go with Halcyon but it was already taken. Ananda was also the name of one of the disciples of the Buddha and supposedly had the best memory of all the followers of Buddha. Most of the suttas are attributed to his memory of the Buddha's teachings. I think I'm attracted to that because my own memory is so poor.
Doesn't Meg O'Keefe name a dog Ananda at some point in A Swiftly Tilting Planet? I really liked that name, sort of like Amanda (having to be loved) but not quite.
I've never heard of that, but I hear that it is a common name in some parts of the world. I thought it was a male name, but apparently it is the female form of the male Indian name, Anand. Although there are many instances of Ananda being used as a male name.
I'm paying homage to my favorite comedian: George Carlin. Anyone who hasn't seen the modern man poem should search for it on youtube this second. Word lovers will not regret it.
I came by mine by accident. I was sitting around trying to think of a name that didn't have misspellings, numbers, would be easy to remember and something funny. It may not be funny but I have been in situations where I have said "My name is unrepeatable" The response is normally "Really, why? Is it a fake word or something?" *Smiles*
Ummm, I use this name on every forum it is available on because it is a one word name that I think is pretty awesome and unique and since I like Fantasy A LOT I chose the name of a weapon that is used a lot in fantasy.
In my story about the separating of a man (Magnafire) from his soul linked sword Blade Edge, he pretty much sets his sights on reclaiming the bound sword, feeling lost without it. However, he discovers that his people are lost, and fragile shells of the once great magnan people. The new Tallon Empire thus twisted out old traditions forcing the Burnt and Magnafire to become outkasts. He decides to represent his self as a symbol of old values hence: The Magnan. Edit: I'm so use to spelling outkasts like that because of a group in my other book. I mean outcasts.
When I'm in bed I can see the stars through my window. I don't have a telescope but I like watching the night sky, especially when I'm procrastinating.
My best friend has called me chocolate bear on several occasions, and claims my skin is the same color as a "mochachino" drink. So...chocolate bear = ch0ck0b3ar.
I picked Britannica from "The Encyclopedia Britannica" I was having trouble picking a name; I was looking for something that sounded cool and had to do with something I liked. I happened to notice the word Britannica on the bookshelf and thought "Hey, that would make a pretty cool username". I also liked it because I thought it sounded European (Turns out it is Italian/Latin for "British"; according to Google translate.)
Cayo Costa is a state park, a small island just off the coast of Florida where I spent some time as a kid. Wanna hear (or alternatively: do you wanna skip) a LONG story? They offer camping there so we were staying in a "cabin" (four planks of wood, a roof, and some wooden bed frames that you can lay your sleeping bag out on), this was a handful of Marches ago. My birthday almost always hit during Spring Break, and camping during Spring Break was not new, but I was twelve or so and getting fussy about it. Cayo Costa was this very untouched area where you had to bike or walk a mile or two of sandy roads to get the ranger station to give you a big block of ice that you would carry back to your camp/cooler. When it melted: your water. It had rattlesnakes in between the pines, and lagoons with "GATORS (or was it crocodiles?): SWIM AT YOUR OWN RISK." There were always dolphins just off the coast and if you sat through an unholy swarm of mosquitoes you could watch them. At twelve or so, I took all this as more reason to whine. We were there a week and a couple days in I found something to do the entire time. The shoreline had a lot of shells, and it had these small, pearly circles that washed up now and again too. They looked like the sheen on the back of a shell, chipped off. Nacre, I think it's officially called. A fingernail like oil on water. I loved them. I collected handfuls day after day. An old woman walked by our camp one night, saw my collection, and called them "jingle shells" for me. When I got about a hundred of them, I found a small conch with a sharp point at the end and I began to carefully drill an even hole into each jingle shell. I finished just around our last day there and I asked mom for a string. She helped me thread them and tied it around my neck and it was so heavy. We boarded the ferry back to the shore. While mom and dad were unloading the boat and putting all the things back in the car, my sisters and I went out to the dock they had nearby. The water was shallow and very clear and there were three big, grey fishes crowding around the end of it. I laid down on the dock with my head over the side to get a closer look at them. When mom called me back because it was time to go, I lifted up too quick and the end of the dock caught and ripped the shell necklace from me. They all fell into the water jingling. They scared the fish away. It's a little thing but I was a little person and I cried for hours. Plus, you know, it SOUNDS cool.
I was working as a shop assistant in a handbag shop when I joined my first forum and all I could come up with was 'baglady'. People on there shortened it to 'baggy' and I've used that ever since. I don't use a capital 'b' because I'm lazy. Unfortunately I fear, with the passage of time, I'm starting to resemble the name.
My name is russian - from the Cold War era, there was a section of the KGB that specialised in covert killings - known as wet work (To wet the earth with blood). "Mokrie Dela" (МОКРЫЕ ДЕЛA in the russian alphabet) is "wet work" in Russian. A lot of people think it's actually my name.
Darkkin...Translated from ancient Elshiki: Naikness Dakender to English: Darkest Kindred. Over time Darkest Kindred became Dark Kin. Until legend merged it into Darkkin. My worlds, my name. - Darkkin, the Tedious
