This meme (see pic above) really strikes a chord with me as I transition from working person to retirement and experience a wee bit of anxiety over what I will do with this next phase of being. I had planned to work a little part-time and travel during this time, but Covid-19 has interfered, as it has with most of us in the world today. So, I am in the process of discovering all the potential me I have yet to become and looking for interesting things to do and fun opportunities as I journal my way through this….it’s a word in progress.
Category Archives: Writing
Name Generator: What Would Your Victorian Pen Name Have Been?
“The Victorian era in particular saw slews of women writing under male pen names, including the Brontë Sisters, who wrote as Acton, Currer and Ellis Bell, and, of course, Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Of her pseudonym, Charlotte Brontë said: “we did not like to declare ourselves women because – without at that time suspecting that our mode of writing and thinking was not what is called ‘feminine’ – we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice.”
I would be Julian Hardy….and you?
A Word In Progress 