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Nom de plume: What Are You Hiding?
I’m going to keep this as vague as possible, what with Montreal being a small city and not a place you want to piss off your professional peers. That being said, I write for a local arts/music/urban culture monthly of note, and it seems like every second contributor has some sort of convoluted pseudonym for their byline. Now, I can understand if, for example, you’re a DJ or something, and you want to maintain some kind of branding consistency with respect to your public persona. That’s fine; I get it. But for writers at large, why would you want to hide your identity? To me, it borders on being unethical…even cowardly. If you’re going to commit to putting something in print, then atleast have the balls to get behind what you’re saying and not cower behind some stupid alter ego.
