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swedishbadgergirl  ·  3554 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: If you wrote a book, would you adopt a nom de plume?

Maybe. It's a thing I've been thinking about a lot. Firstly I don't really like my names- I like my first one - because I'm named after an Astrid Lindgren charachter who grows up and realizer her father is a kind of a dick. And she also runs away into the forest. It is way to apropriate. However my first name by itself is uniqe in Sweden since it's dubble barreled. And then one of my middle names is litteraly "fathersname"daughter islandic style. I have a super, mega terrible relationship with him.

(Ronia the Robbers Daughter is the book by the way.)

As I've mentioned earlier I have quite controlling parents, be home at 10, always answer your phone, who are you talking with, who is he/she, I will take out my shotgun when you bring a guy over, you look like a... well it's not apropriat to call your daughter that, you should wear skirts to you ankles kind of controlling.

Yeah.

As such a lot of the themes of my writing are about choseing your family, non-blood-bonds that are more important than blood ones, female friendship, .etc.

And I would be very identifiable.

I think you can see where this is going.

WARNING LONG RANT ABOUT THING I AM WRITING

The thing I'm working on now (at the outline stage) is under the working title of "Battered Womens Social Club" about four women who are married to four brothers of a rich-ish clan. And these four men are terrible abusive husbands. And on a moosehunting trip in winter (super mega illiagal) the four women are snowed in in a cabin together. They are friends before this and look out for eachother but now they are stuck alone together and have to survive. And then the terrible husbands don't come and it's cold and they are running out of firewood and the snow keeps falling on the not-that-structurally stable cabin. So they go to find the husbands all four of them.

Rebecca the young secod wife of one of the men. She is 20 years old and they've been married for two years, the first wife is not spoken of. She is maybe the most anive of the women.

Catharine the olderst of the wives who is quite protective the other women and very reckless with herself. She gives the others makeup tips and examines wounds so they aren't to bad.

Laura who used to be a wildlife biologist and actually studied moose population. Has a hunting licence that she had to get for shooting and sedating animals. Is the only woman who has children and is very protective of them (they're with their nanny in stockholm during this trip).

Theodora used to be a laywer in a succesful firm. She is very no-nonsense about most things and very pragmatic.

So they bringa gun for protecting against bears and moose and just stuff 'cause it's dark and scary and so much snow.

And then something goes terrible wrong and one of the terribe husbands iis shot maybe dead. And Laura fired the gun she was carrying. And all four women get in the car and drive back to Stockholm. And wait for the police to arrest them.

But the men deside to handle it the family way since !. they weren't hunting legally, 2. They were super drunk 3. Laura may not actually have shot the guy so they might be keeping it quiet since it was a genuine alcohol induced accident.

And then some other stuff will happen. Outline stage.

Anyway - thats the kind of subject I like to write about - so... Publishing a book about that kind of thing might not go down well with my family.

So... Maybe?