It is my family's nickname for me when I was a child. I didn't much like it at the time, but have grown fonder of it.
My pen name is based off my blog. It just hit me one day and I really enjoy it. I feel like it is refined yet creative and can cover a large span of topics.
Great question; this is something I often wonder when seeing unusual names on HubPages. Mine was created many years ago when I was going to be a writer for my brother's fiction-based website. I was the sole content provider and I needed something that would guard me from failure.
I went through a number of pen names I didn't like until arriving at M. T. Dremer.
The last part (Dremer) is actually two sets of initials combined 'DRE' is short for Dr Evil which was my online gaming name around the time Austin Powers was popular, and 'MER' which is my real life initials. When thinking of what letters would come before 'Dremer' I noticed that it was one letter away from 'Dreamer' so the rest just fell into place. M.T.Dremer basically means "Mitch, The Dreamer".
It seems overly-complicated and possibly cheesy, but I've loved it since it was created. When my brother's website closed down I attempted a few online writing-for-money websites, using the name, before finally settling on HubPages as my number one.
For me, I used a variation of an email address I'd come up with. I enjoy being creative so having the word creative somewhere in my name was important to me.
My pen name is partially my real name. My name is Jeannie and then I thought it would be funny to use the song, "Genie in a Bottle" as a pen name. I combined the two.
I got the idea from a Gore Vidal novel. In the story, a character in New York writes social commentary articles for the NY Post under the pen name "Old Patroon". The name was a reference to the Dutch landowners, or patroon class, that once ruled New York.
I figured the Texas equivalent to a New York patroon would be an empresario landowner of the 1820s and 1830s, like Stephan F Austin. So instead of Old Patroon, I was Old Empresario.
I have once dreamed of navigating a ship, that is why I like the rank of an Admiral and Joraxx is my usual online name so I called myself Admiral_Joraxx.
I used the name for my photography company.
My maiden name (actual) is Pierson - a variant of the English name Pierce meaning rock. My cousin has done our family geneology and traced our family back to 16th century England. Between being a merchant and a rock (and sometimes stuck between a rock and a hard place) not only my 'created' name of Garrett, but my given surname of Pierson fits me perfectly: I'm as tough as a rock, I have store, am a rapier fighter and have an English heritage.
It's funny how doing a little research on names tied everything together for me. I bet if you did a research of your name you come up with the same surprise. I believe everything in life has a purpose, there are no coincidences.
I kind of proved it to myself just by researching my name as it fits me to a tee.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.