Pen name
A pen name is a name by which an author is known, other than the author's real name. It is a form of pseudonym. For example, "Mark Twain" was the pen name of Samuel Longhorne Clemens.
Many authors of spanking stories write under pen names, which are often also scene names.
The English phrase "pen name" is often translated into the French, "nom de plume".
A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her writings, or for any of a number of reasons related to the marketing or aesthetic presentation of the work. The author's name may be known only to the publisher, or may come to be common knowledge.
Another example of a nom-de-plume is Anne Rice writing the Beauty Trilogy under the name A. N. Roquelaure. The French word roquelaure, in actuality, means cloak.
In Japanese
Japanese poets who write haiku often use a "haig" or pen name. The famous haiku poet "Matsuo Bash" had used fifteen different haig before he became fond of a banana plant ("bash") that had been given to him by a disciple and started using it as his pen name at the age of 38.
Similar to a pen name, Japanese artists usually have a g" or art-name, which might change a number of times during their career. In some cases, artists adopted different g" at different stages of their career, usually to mark significant changes in their life. One of the most extreme examples of this is Hokusai, who in the period 1798 to 1806 alone used no fewer than six. Manga artist Ogure Ito uses the pen name 'Oh! great' because his real name Ogure Ito is roughly how the Japanese pronounce "oh great".
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