After my April Fool's Joke caused some extreme reactions, the name challenge @josediccus nominated me for might just be what's needed, even though I won't be able to reveal everything.
Here we go with the rules:
- Tell us in a post how you chose the current Steemit username you have. The story behind it.
- Tell us your real name!
- If you could change your current username, which name would you choose and why? If you have a possible usernames list, mention it!
- Use the tag #steemitnamechallenge so that the creator of the challenge can track all the posts and check them out
- Nominate 5 people for this challenge
So, let's do this!
- My current Steemit username has quite a story, but a boring one behind it. I'm a huge fan of Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels, and one of the characters I absolutely adore is named "Susan Sto Helit". This, of course, is way too long as a username, so I shortened it to "Sue" for a while. but "Sue" tends to be taken. As someone who has been playing a lot of MMORPGs (who am I fooling. I played WoW.) growing up, I had some "naming rules" when a name wasn't available. Just add "-sa", "-se", "-ia" "-ana" until the name is available.
So, for a while, I've been using "Suesa", and that was exactly the time during which I joined Steemit. Despite its origin, I don't pronounce it "Sue-sa" but more like "Suh-eh-sah".
Nope, not telling you my real name, sorry. My first name - last name combination is so unique, that I'm the only result for the first 5 pages of google.
Change my current username? But I've build a brand, I can't change it!
Seriously, I'm horrible with names. You might not expect this from a writer, but coming up with names is one of the things I hate most. Suesa is short, easy to remember and looks nice. I like it.Adds the tag
I nominate @reggaemuffin , @lemony-cricket , @bachuslib , @apsu and @kex !
My deed here is done.
