To Be More Than One Thing: One Writer’s Introduction to Publishing
Editorial: “I wouldn’t worry about it – just use a pen name. Get your writing out there!”
Couched within this exuberant advice from a well-published writer, the too-easy flippancy of it all escaped me. Of course! I thought naively. A pen name for every way to tell a story will solve all my problems. Fiction will know me as A, nonfiction will know me as B, and I shall submit poetry under C. There was indeed a way to be more than one thing. I was overjoyed. Marvelous plan.
But, no. Not really. Read on…