A tip of the hat to HollyGolightly, who, in Shasta's thread about about changing her screen name, suggested we start a thread for people to explain how they chose their names....so, here it is!
91rewoT...Being from a generation that did not grow up with computers, my sister and I were reluctant to join the message board. We had lurked around for quite some time, but couldn't quite take the plunge. Then came the opportunity to play an online game leading up to the much anticipated release of Under the Dome....but you had to be a member to play. We really wanted to play. So, sitting at our computers, 250 miles apart, speaker phones on, we journed together through the process of setting up our accounts....and then we had to pick a screen name. "What?! We have to decide right now?! Oh crap!" I don't know how long we contemplated different names (they had to be perfect, right?!), but I knew I wanted mine to have a "19" in it, and relate in some way to both The Dark Tower and the USAF...so "Tower19" seemed a good choice...and to make our names connect to each other, we spelled them backward...stephenking-gniknehpets...and somewhere along the line, it may have been at the Kon, we were dubbed "The Backwards Sisters"...
How did you choose your screen name? Explain.....
91rewoT...Being from a generation that did not grow up with computers, my sister and I were reluctant to join the message board. We had lurked around for quite some time, but couldn't quite take the plunge. Then came the opportunity to play an online game leading up to the much anticipated release of Under the Dome....but you had to be a member to play. We really wanted to play. So, sitting at our computers, 250 miles apart, speaker phones on, we journed together through the process of setting up our accounts....and then we had to pick a screen name. "What?! We have to decide right now?! Oh crap!" I don't know how long we contemplated different names (they had to be perfect, right?!), but I knew I wanted mine to have a "19" in it, and relate in some way to both The Dark Tower and the USAF...so "Tower19" seemed a good choice...and to make our names connect to each other, we spelled them backward...stephenking-gniknehpets...and somewhere along the line, it may have been at the Kon, we were dubbed "The Backwards Sisters"...
How did you choose your screen name? Explain.....