Throughout the month of April I will be publishing 30 posts as I complete the 30 Days of Gaming Challenge. The prompts I will be using are outlined below, at the end of the month I'll come back and edit this post to make each one a link, but for now if you want to play along these are the titles.
Years ago I wrote a blog post on the nature of names and how we like to think we are unique as people, but searching our name on Google or any other search engine reveals how many people out there have the same name as us; sometimes their lives often resemble our own, because people's lives in general aren't as unique as we like to think.
When I first started writing fiction I needed a name to publish it under, my actual legal name wasn't an option at the time for a number of reasons, mainly that the nature of the content I wanted to write about would have conflicted with my career at the time. The name I chose was S J Doran, short for Steven James Doran, the rationale being that Steven was the name my parents were going to call me before I was born, which they eventually decided against, whilst James Doran was the name of my grandfather, whose side of the family I believe is where most of my creativity stems from. The diplomacy and sometimes a tendency to engage in confrontation stems from the other side of the family.
