Write Novels! - Victorian pen names

[ashling]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/31/pen-name-generator_n_5045267.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063&fb_ref=Default

[Trillo]

1. Don't waste your time writing novels

if your desire is to make money from them, it's just another financial scam.

[ashling]

2. I am guessing your Victorian penname is

Ebeneezer Scrooge

Write Novels? Bah Humbug!!

[Trillo]

3. Actually that's a projection.

I believe people should get paid for their work. If you write novels, you're mostly wasting your time, kind of like "volunteering."

[ashling]

7. Actually, that is not a projection

It is merely an observation within the lighthearted mood of the original post.

And there are some people who write for the joy and cleansing nature of writing

project that into your pipe and ...


But then perhaps I should have said the following (as a more accurate interpretation)

Write Novels for Money? Bah Humbug !

Either way, Ebeneezer Scrooge would approve

[kentauros]

4. Egbert Fezziwig!

That's almost Englebert Humperdinck!

[progressoid]

5. Kingsley Peabody

[hifiguy]

6. I can make up my own

I don't need no stinking generator.

Yr obdt svt,

Havelock Cholmondeley-Pepperwhistle.

[NJCher]

8. Chester Kenfield here

I tried another one: Cecil Krooke!


Cher

[femmocrat]

9. Meriwether Adams!

I love it!