It Is A Nickname!
When I was a kid I didn't have a nickname, so I told everybody to call me by just my initials for awhile. My initials, by the way, were, back then T. D. J. . So some people called me T.J. and some people called me T.D. then one day a younger acquaintance of mine started calling me Teddy (because that's what T.D. sounded like to him). Anyway, I have not been called that by anybody in a really long time. How long, exactly, we will never go into.
When I started this blog I decided to sign in as teddyt. It was not really close to my real name and I was super suspicious of everything back then. The thing is, I've been on twitter for awhile now as tracytayl. I had thought of using teddyt on there too, but thought I might want to feel freer over there, so I stuck close to my REAL current name.
Now, a few weeks (or months) ago, just after I started Scenes . . ., my fiction section that is now (at least temporarily) on hiatus, I got a few e-mails asking if this was an autobiographical story, and a few assuming they knew who I was and a very specific situation that I was talking about. Let me go on record as stating fully: Scenes From Her Life is not now, nor has it ever been based on fact. It is in fact based on something that a CHARACTER (fictional) of mine might have done in a previous incarnation, instead of the things she does in the Novel that I am currently failing at completing. Sort of a parallel universe sort of thing.
I did make the mistake of naming the main character in Scenes. . . Teddy. But it's just a nickname with her, also. I figured I was safe. Her previous names were Robin, Jay (someone who actually knows me warned me against that one right off the bat and I'm so glad they did) and Leigh. Maybe I should have stuck with one of those, but they're names from the actual Novel -- subtitled "The Unfinishable Project" -- and I did not want them to be closely associated with web-only content.
Now, you ALL know. It's just a nickname. None of my fiction has anything to do with reality. Goodbye.
