Meet Mr. W.M. Hackman

I had a brainstorm today-

I want to write more, I have a number of projects in my head that want to exist outside of there, but one of the largest stumbling blocks is how impossible it seems to me to take these ideas and make them perfect things, wholly communicative outside of myself. Because of course that's impossible. Wires get crossed, oppourtunities missed, and it just won't ever be perfect. But the attempt is a daunting thing.

But what if it wasn't?

What if I created an alternate persona to do my initial writing for me- a self assured hack that could bounce from one project to the next, comfortable in the notion that whatever he writes will be "eh, good enough for me" and that eventually his old editor Isaac will get to re-emerge, to take these scraps, remold them after the fact, and steal them as his own.

It's brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT!

So, a pen-name's the thing, a pseudonym.
Readers are a cowardly and superstitious lot.

I shall become "Will Manning Hackman" (a well-meaning hack...man.)

(This could be the opening chapters for a strange re-telling of the Jekyll/Hyde story. Not that that story really gets all that much stranger)

Anyways, yes, this is just a trick to psych myself up. I'm not actually going insane. Probably.