what’s Porn Name Pseudonym?

You know how in middle school other kids would ask, "Hey, what's your porn name?" then explain what that was and how you figure it?

That’s what ‘Clancy Steadwell’ is for one writer – and this is their blog.

What do they write?

Modern and oftentimes humorous literary fiction.

Bildungsromans with themes of generational conflict.

Realism and local color.

Essays and reviews every now and then.

Best taken with tea or coffee.

For more information, check out the Meta section and start with this post:

auto-neurotic as-fiction-ation

Clancy Steadwell

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Feb 19

A pretentious sentence adorns my Substack bio: "Attempting to forgo the modern need for mimetic veracity in storytelling." This, of course, refers to my nom de plume, 'Clancy Steadwell', chosen tongue-in-cheek via the "porn name" method explained to me in grade school: taking one's pet's name and the street they grew up on.

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