When your readers tried to find you online (once they realized you were not THE J.K. Rowling probably would not be a smart idea. For example, if your name happens to be John Kenneth Rowling, publishing as J.K. While it is nearly impossible to avoid sharing your name with someone in the universe, try to avoid having an identical name to someone who is well-known in the writing industry. Google Your Chosen Name and Potential Connections to the Industry It can help avoid readers’ prejudices against certain genders writing in genres considered to be dominated by another gender.Certain genres, especially romance, have a long-standing tradition of pseudonyms.It provides a layer of protection or privacy for you.(This is especially nice if you fail miserably or write in “controversial” genres like erotica.) You can separate yourself from your work.It makes the business and legal aspects slightly easier.It makes you more transparent as an author.It’s easy for you to remember and embrace when speaking with readers.You get all the glory associated with your books and author business.There are valid arguments on both sides, and only you can make the decision that is right for you. The first decision to make is whether to publish under your real name or a pseudonym (fake name). Your pen name is likely the first impression of you readers will receive (beyond your book–but more on that down the road), and you want it to be something that sticks with them and easily identifies you out in cyberspace. This is an extremely important decision, and for some authors, it will be more difficult than others. Once you have decided to start building your author platform, the first thing you need to do is select the pen name under which you plan to publish. This entry was posted in Non-Legal and tagged Author, Microsoft Word, redlines, Word by EricEsquire. If the checkbox and option is turned off and grayed out like in the image below, you will have to do one thing before you can turn it on, you need to first run Document Inspector by pressing the button on this screen and manually remove all metadata under “Comments, Revisions, Versions and Annotations.” (You can run Document Inspector at any time to manually remove metadata from a Word document.).Your redlines should now stay as-is when you save the document. To turn it off, uncheck the box, click “ OK,” and close Word Options.
The Trust Center should open on “ Privacy Options” (if not, select it).
In the “Trust Center” dialog box, click the “ Trust Center Settings” button.In the “Options” box, select “ Trust Center” at the bottom of the left-hand menu.To turn on or off the removal of personal information from a document upon save in Office 2010 or 2013, follow these steps: This is a document setting, not a global setting, so changing it for a given document changes it for that document only. If your redlines are changing to “Author” on save, it’s because this option is turned on in your document. If this option is selected, metadata (including names of redline owners) is stripped out of the document when it is saved. Word includes an option in the Trust Center which lets you remove all personal information from a document upon save. On the flip side, there are times you may want to remove all of the personal information in a document regarding authors (e.g., when releasing a policy or document that had multiple authors, and you don’t want to show who worked on what parts). (I’ve had situations where my business team commented on a draft assuming the “Author” redlines in an agreement were my redlines, when they were really from the other side.) This author information for redlines is one example of the “metadata” that Microsoft Word saves with your document. There’s nothing more frustrating than redlining a document only to find your edits changed to Author the second you save your draft. You’ve probably noticed that in certain documents, as soon as you click “Save” all of your Word redlines change color and switch from your name to “Author.” If you’re like me, when negotiating or commenting up a document with others I prefer to “layer” redlines in different colors so everyone knows whose comments and redlines are whose. This can help avoid confusion and keep the negotiation process running as efficiently as possible.