The Origins of Nicole Case

As I mentioned in the last post, I use a pen name for writing and the reason for this is sheer laziness on my part.  Also mentioned before is that I was supposed to write what I know.  So I pulled from my own history and since I used my own experience I also used my own name.

That meant I had about seven pages peppered with my name throughout and when I decided to continue the story I thought it would be less confusing to try to change my name all the way through.  I was pretty positive that at some point I would slip up and use my own.  I know I could have used the find and replace feature but there was something fun about using a pen name, I guess.

It was also kind of another way to connect with the women in my family since they did inspire part of the story.  Since I knew I was going to use a pen name what better way to incorporate my grandma than to use her name as mine?