Pen name

Used
Robert Wolfe
Robert Nevelle
Robert Gage
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Years ago, had a nick name in the music industry.  A friend suggested that I use it...

Cosmo...

Mike suggested, Cosmo Ash....  Does have a nice ring to it.

Anythoughts?  Should I stay with Robert Gage, revert to another past one or Cosmo Gage, Cosmo Ash - Cosmo by itself and drive bookstores nuts as to where to place it on a shelve - or Cosmo ????

Novel writing month is nearing...  Goal to avoid all stress....

One stress issue taken care of:  Identity theft resolved, no damage done.  I have my credit rating on fraud alert for two months.  Do not plan on applying for credit anytime soon or moving until after the first of the year, should not effect me.

Robert
 

Thanks for all the support of NaNoMo...

Just learned someone around town is used my identity at a "rent to own" place.  

The business was closed, so will have to check on that tomorrow....

Ouch, I was hoping to use my VA loan i a year or two for a house...  I'm sure my credit rating is under siege at the moment.

Robert

Something I wrote many years ago...  
With Americans new TV viewing season underway, it seemed to fit.

Press The Remote

     Scanning bland television bands.
Nothing new, nothing fresh.
     Voids of mindless muddle.

     Concoctions of grand delusion.
     Dreams of tomorrow, gone.

     Faded blue hazy glows.
    Enslaved and held captive

     Simply press the remote.
     Another station, another snare.
     Trapped in hypnotic trances
     Clutched by idiotic dilemmas.
Disenchanted.

 Thumbing, surfing into narrowed realties.

     Father, mother, brother, sister transposed
     With friends in smell rose spaces
Living in unreachable zip-code places
An autograph if you please

     Powerless, just another thumb of the remote.
     In search of perfect friendships.  Perfect parents.
     A perfect mate.  Perfect children.
     It’s a perfect home life improved.

     Press the remote, again and again.
     Simpletons plight of images.
Tromping the vast mind-fields of broadcast bands.

Real life partly reflecting an education system for an unpublished novel, Ages Past...

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3568769&page=1

The school system in Kansas City, MO has done away with Middle Schools, keeping grades K through Eight in one building, so that students will have one teacher and quote:  "The kids will calm down when they can be role models for the younger students"

That theme of "role models" is part the culture's educational system in Ages Past.  It is expected for older students too mentor younger students.

Yes, there are vast differences with other parts of their educational system.  The role model thing is very present in Ages Past.

There are somethings I've written about future societies that I pray never come true.  It's nice to see something postive in a story I've written come to life in reality.   Yeah, I do realize my unpublished novel had nothing to do with the changes for the Kansas City school system...

As a writer, feeling the pulse of society is a must.