Let’s play a game: take your middle name and the name of the street you grew up on – that’s your author name. Go!
P.S. Mine is Gillian Lundy.
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Anyone who would like to try it out, feel free to use the “One-Liner Wednesday” title in your post, and if you do, you can ping back here to help your blog get more exposure. To execute a ping back, just copy the URL in the address bar on this post and paste it somewhere in the body of your post. Your link will show up in the comments below. Please ensure that the One-Liner Wednesday you’re pinging back to is this week’s! Otherwise, no one will likely see it but me.
As with Stream of Consciousness Saturday (SoCS), if you see a ping back from someone else in my comment section, click and have a read. It’s bound to be short and sweet.
Unlike SoCS, this is not a prompt so there’s no need to stick to the same “theme.”
The rules that I’ve made for myself (but don’t always follow) for “One-Liner Wednesday” are:
1. Make it one sentence.
2. Make it either funny or inspirational.
3. Use our unique tag #1linerWeds!
4. Have fun!
October 6, 2015 at 12:09 am
Darn my new last name is Sixth Street.
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October 6, 2015 at 11:26 am
Ha! You’ll look good on the shelves beside Ms. Fourth. 😛
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September 24, 2015 at 8:34 am
Mine is very Irish – Mary Dublin!
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September 24, 2015 at 10:08 am
Wow – is it ever. 😀 I like it!
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September 24, 2015 at 3:02 am
http://finallyawriter.com/2015/09/24/one-liner-wednesday-author-author/
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September 23, 2015 at 8:12 pm
Lynn Temple
-Sounds old school Hollywood lol
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September 24, 2015 at 9:56 am
It does! 😀
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September 23, 2015 at 7:49 pm
Richard Livingston. Damn that sounds pompous, lol!
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September 24, 2015 at 9:56 am
Actually, I like it! You’d have to put up with a lot of people presuming you’re a doctor though… Oh wait, that was David. Never mind. 😉 hehehe
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September 24, 2015 at 10:33 am
Do you think I would have to affect a British accent to pull it off?! Lol
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September 24, 2015 at 10:37 am
Oh definitely. But as an author, that would only be for book signings, and public readings. No pressure. 😉
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September 23, 2015 at 5:57 pm
This is a funny post. Mine is Bruni Garden….hahaha!
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September 24, 2015 at 9:46 am
Hey, that would be great if you were writing books about landscaping! 😀
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September 23, 2015 at 4:49 pm
Heh. My name would be Marie Cunningham. Actually, that doesn’t sound half bad.
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September 23, 2015 at 4:50 pm
It’s amazing how many great names come out of this exercise. 🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 4:02 pm
Okay my name should be Teresa Lionel!
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September 23, 2015 at 4:41 pm
Nice author name! 🙂
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September 24, 2015 at 11:47 am
Well not too bad a Nomdeplume!
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September 23, 2015 at 3:27 pm
I was an Air Force brat, so I only remember one of the many streets in my childhood. Author name… Renae Wilson. Hm. I kinda like it, lol~
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September 23, 2015 at 4:40 pm
That is kinda nice! 🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 8:26 pm
Air Force brat here as well!
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September 23, 2015 at 11:18 pm
You know that means we’re family, right? Good to meet you, Quixie. 🙂
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September 24, 2015 at 1:44 pm
Yes it does! Nice to meet cha, sis. 😀
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September 23, 2015 at 3:24 pm
Helen River, which is not very interesting.
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September 23, 2015 at 4:38 pm
Add an “s” to the end and you could be Joan’s much much younger sister. 🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 6:32 pm
May she rest in peace…
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September 24, 2015 at 9:44 am
Yes.
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September 23, 2015 at 3:19 pm
Mine would be Louise Fourth. I great up on a numbered street.
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September 23, 2015 at 4:34 pm
That’s actually a pretty cool name. 🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 3:08 pm
Pasquale is actually my middle name so my author name would be Pasquale Beck. I think I’ll stick with my real name! 🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 4:33 pm
It’s definitely got an international flavour to it! 🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 1:25 pm
Ann Washington – (boring!)
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September 23, 2015 at 4:29 pm
It’s not boring! It’s stately! 😀
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September 23, 2015 at 12:34 pm
Don’t know what it sounds like lo but mines is Marchelle Alice.
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September 23, 2015 at 12:52 pm
Oooh, I like that! 😀
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September 23, 2015 at 12:32 pm
Charles Lucien here – ha! i kinda like that.
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September 23, 2015 at 12:51 pm
Has a very French feel, with a Dickensian twist!
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September 23, 2015 at 12:16 pm
Ann Fraser – I like that.
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September 23, 2015 at 12:49 pm
Very nice indeed! 🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 11:57 am
Rose Buckingham. Sounds like I can give Jackie Susann a run for the money!
Here’s my link for today. As usual, it’s more than one One-Liner, but it’s in the spirit of such challenge:
https://notapunkrocker.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/yogi-berrabear/
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September 23, 2015 at 12:46 pm
What a cool author name! I like it! 😀
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September 23, 2015 at 11:25 am
My middle name is Joy. But what do I do if I’m a military brat that moved every couple of years (and can’t remember any of the street names I grew up on)?
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September 23, 2015 at 12:32 pm
How about the closest cross-street to where you live now?
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September 23, 2015 at 12:40 pm
Okay, then my author name would be Joy Heide. If I go by dalecooper’s “porn name” game using that criteria I would be “Rusty Heide.” Oh my god! LOL
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September 23, 2015 at 12:42 pm
Hahahaha! That could get a little flaky over time!
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September 23, 2015 at 10:58 am
I already have a post ready for today and besides, I prefer the “pornstar name” game; First family pet + Street where you lived as a baby. Mine = “Toffee Gilpin”.
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September 23, 2015 at 12:31 pm
Sounds sticky. Ewww! I don’t remember the street I lived on when I was born, but my pornstar name at any rate would be Billy something. That could get rather confusing…
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September 23, 2015 at 10:45 am
I have no middle name. Just call me Blank Way.
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September 23, 2015 at 12:26 pm
That works!
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September 23, 2015 at 10:32 am
Interesting – mine would be Anne Martin. I think I like that for an author name.
Oh, wait, that one’s already taken. Darn.
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September 23, 2015 at 12:26 pm
Is it? It’s not a name I’m familiar with. Ah well, how about the street you live on now? Or the one you moved from to get where you are?
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September 23, 2015 at 1:43 pm
Let’s see. That would make it Anne Zimmerman (kind of bland, not sure I like it) or Anne Denrose (I really don’t like that). Guess if I ever want to write “anonymously” I’ll just have to stick with Cordelia’s Mom or CookieCakes [last name to be determined]. 🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 4:24 pm
Haha!
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September 23, 2015 at 10:14 am
sounds like fun!
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September 23, 2015 at 12:24 pm
Excellent! 🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 12:34 pm
🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 10:13 am
Michael Hurricane (obviously destined for success)
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September 23, 2015 at 12:24 pm
Your middle name is Michael? (Obviously. At least for a whirlwind romance novel…)
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September 23, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Yup 🙂
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September 23, 2015 at 4:27 pm
That’s different! (…says the author whose female main character in her novel is Herman…)
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September 23, 2015 at 5:19 pm
It’s a family tradition.
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September 23, 2015 at 10:17 pm
A cool one too!
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September 23, 2015 at 10:42 pm
Thanks, Linda 🙂
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