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Q&A How to pick a proper pen-name for online writing?

As I mentioned in a comment, the chances that your name will be taken on future platforms, on which you have not yet registered, increase with your notoriety. As you mention, this often leads to t...

posted 5y ago by _X_‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#2: Initial revision by (deleted user) · 2019-12-08T12:16:13Z (almost 5 years ago)
As I mentioned in a comment, the chances that your name will be taken on future platforms, on which you have not yet registered, increase with your notoriety.

As you mention, this often leads to the necessity of adding numbers after the cool username of yours. A simple workaround would be to have a user-name that is already predisposed for that.

> [https://oeis.org/](https://oeis.org/)

This website lists several known sequences of integers. Some famous ones are listed here ([https://oeis.org/wiki/Welcome#Some\_Famous\_Sequences](https://oeis.org/wiki/Welcome#Some_Famous_Sequences)). The idea is to use

> NameOfSequence + [numbers from the sequence]

For instance

> Fibonacci\_1123

or

> BusyBeaver\_1621

If someone happens to have the guts to take such a username, then you can just add the next number and keep your gig going.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-06-25T08:46:04Z (over 5 years ago)
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