I'm thinking about renaming...

[layla]

Now that I have a "studio" name that I like, and still like after using it for a little while -- Icefall Press -- I'm considering doing some name-swapping on my LJs.

This one would be renamed to laylalawlor, since it's my personal journal and it's not as if anyone doesn't know who I am.

The one which is currently laylalawlor -- the community -- would be renamed to icefallpress. In my mind, this would better reflect the way I use it: it's not my personal journal, but my journal for writing and art-related stuff. And I would like to work on making it a more active writing/creative journal; I think right now people are hampered by the fact that it *looks* like a private journal due to the name. (Also, posting in a journal called "laylalawlor" as a user named "glacierdust" just feels downright weird to me. It would be SO MUCH LESS WEIRD the other way around.)

Bad idea? Good idea? Thoughts?

Comments

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

Yes, you can rename them, but it costs money to do it -- probably to keep people from changing their LJ names all the time!

I'm partial to using laylalawlor for my personal LJ because I've *always* used my real name online, ever since I first started going on message boards and mailing lists in '95. It's my website URL, my AIM screen name and my name in most other places where I'm a regular. I do have pseudonyms that I use for certain specific purposes (e.g. writing and posting fanfic, because I don't want it to come up under my name in a Google search) but in general, "me" online is Layla Lawlor just as it is in real life.

And I want myself to be easy to find; if people who are casually acquainted with me through my books are looking for me, I want them to be able to type "laylalawlor" into Livejournal and get *something*.

But I do like the glacierdust LJ name. And I've been glacierdust on LJ for quite a while ... so I'll think about that one some more.

I'm pretty sure about the icefallpress name change, though. My only worry is that 6 months from now, I won't like the name anymore.

[24thecomicstrip.livejournal.com]

I hear you about the Icefall thing. Personally, I like it. But then again, like you i'm a very nature-driven person.
I got over my idea that I wanted my name to be Alvin about two months in. Then again, I was six, so my parents induldged me. ^^