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I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I spent a good number of years thinking about writing and have finally gotten down to outlining the ideas that I've have been tossing around. So far, I've got a twisted-serial-killer thriller thing going on in one peice; a light, contemporary romance; a rather dark piece of fiction dealing with depression; an article on doctor/patient relationships and something that appears to want to turn itself into progressive christian fiction. This is typical of me. I can never settle for just one thing when there are so many interesting things out there. What can I say? I like variety.
Anyway, I know that I am getting ahead of myself here, but it occurs to me that I would probably want to use different names for some of these. Dark and twisted is rather difficult to reconcile with religious writing. So, I'm not really asking if I should use a pseudonym. I'm more interested in how one does this. I am assuming that a paycheck would be written to your actual name. I would also guess that a contract would need your real name in order to be legal. Is the name a story, book, article, etc, is published under part of the contract? Is this something that would be mentioned in a query letter when pitching/submitting an article? At what point in the process does this come up?
~Lissa, who is all too often bogged down in the details
Anyway, I know that I am getting ahead of myself here, but it occurs to me that I would probably want to use different names for some of these. Dark and twisted is rather difficult to reconcile with religious writing. So, I'm not really asking if I should use a pseudonym. I'm more interested in how one does this. I am assuming that a paycheck would be written to your actual name. I would also guess that a contract would need your real name in order to be legal. Is the name a story, book, article, etc, is published under part of the contract? Is this something that would be mentioned in a query letter when pitching/submitting an article? At what point in the process does this come up?
~Lissa, who is all too often bogged down in the details