Hey everyone! This may be in the wrong section but I’d really appreciate some help. I’m a budding author and hoping to get published one day, and I’ve finally decided on a pen name I’d like to use - kinda…
My first name will definitely be [name_f]Reverie[/name_f]. [name_f]Reverie[/name_f] means “daydream” which is what I do on a regular basis, and what writing feels like to me; slipping into a daydream that I can then share with the world. Also, to be a published author would be one of my greatest dreams come true and so [name_f]Reverie[/name_f] is very fitting. My problem is choosing my last name.
I think I’m definitely choosing between Greenwood and [name_m]Todd[/name_m]. Both names have a lot of meaning for me. Greenwood was my paternal grandmother’s maiden name, who died when I was very young (4). I love my maternal grandmother dearly - we’ve always been close and even now I live far away from home at uni, I call her regularly just to hear her voice. I have a lifetime of happy memories of her, and it hurts me that I don’t have the same with my paternal grandmother - I don’t even know if the very few, very fuzzy memories I do have of her are actual memories or stories people have told me, and pictures I’ve been shown. I feel that using her maiden name as my last name would be a nice tribute to her.
[name_m]Todd[/name_m] was the last name of my godmother (who I called aunty, and who I felt closer to than ANY of my actual aunts or uncles). I love her dearly, and she was always extremely supportive of me and my dreams. She lived quite far away and my parents and I definitely didn’t get to see her as much as we wanted to. Unfortunately, a few years ago she died of cancer, and my world fell apart. I was inconsolable for months. Now that I’m at university and on that first step of the ladder to the rest of my life, I miss her daily, albeit not as viciously as I used to. If I ever get published, I know she would have been the proudest person I know (apart from of course, or perhaps on equal par to, my parents).
And therein lies my dilemma. I know I want to honour one of these people in the name I choose. But do I pick the grandmother I wish I knew, or the aunt I wish I had more time with? So I decided to choose the one which sounds better with [name_f]Reverie[/name_f]. And that’s where you guys come in! I need your opinions on what sounds better - [name_f]Reverie[/name_f] Greenwood or [name_f]Reverie[/name_f] [name_m]Todd[/name_m].
*[name_m]Just[/name_m] for clarification, this is [name_m]JUST[/name_m] a pen name - the name that will go on my novels in the author space. I am not legally changing my name in “real life” or anything like that
