You actually may have just changed my mind about the username change. I should have posted this entry before I bought the rename token. heh.
To answer your second point, I was more thinking about it as a publicity thing - to make my journal more instantly recognizable as that of the author of the Jane book/to cement that connection. I mean, when I see libba-bray or halseanderson on someone's friends list, I know immediately who they are, you know? Also, my second book, which I hope to be able to publish in the wake of the Jane book, isn't about the world of the Internet, so if I'm thinking long-term the publicity argument may be the more compelling one as far as that goes. But your first paragraph hit home a lot for me, and I think articulated a lot of why I was very reluctant to make the change. Maybe I can somehow get firstname-lastname to forward here but retain this as a primary sn.
(Another idea I had had was to have a public blog and a private one, and to transfer a few of the more notable 'babe posts over to the new firstname-lastname public blog. I'd lose all the comments that way, but from the time of its inception on I could begin cross-posting that minority of entries that I'd want public to both 'babe (f'onlied here) and fn-ln (public). I don't think the way I phrased that made sense. I'm still taking Vicodin for my goddamn tooth. Anywaay then I couold use that as a base for posting tour dates and stuff. And note to everyone: don't tell me this is premature. I know it is. I just donm't happen to care.)
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Date: 2008-01-06 10:36 am (UTC)To answer your second point, I was more thinking about it as a publicity thing - to make my journal more instantly recognizable as that of the author of the Jane book/to cement that connection. I mean, when I see libba-bray or halseanderson on someone's friends list, I know immediately who they are, you know? Also, my second book, which I hope to be able to publish in the wake of the Jane book, isn't about the world of the Internet, so if I'm thinking long-term the publicity argument may be the more compelling one as far as that goes. But your first paragraph hit home a lot for me, and I think articulated a lot of why I was very reluctant to make the change. Maybe I can somehow get firstname-lastname to forward here but retain this as a primary sn.
(Another idea I had had was to have a public blog and a private one, and to transfer a few of the more notable 'babe posts over to the new firstname-lastname public blog. I'd lose all the comments that way, but from the time of its inception on I could begin cross-posting that minority of entries that I'd want public to both 'babe (f'onlied here) and fn-ln (public). I don't think the way I phrased that made sense. I'm still taking Vicodin for my goddamn tooth. Anywaay then I couold use that as a base for posting tour dates and stuff. And note to everyone: don't tell me this is premature. I know it is. I just donm't happen to care.)