Or, I could just keep asking weird questions until someone answers one of them.

[thanate]

Today has been relatively useless, not to mention full of headache and having to write awkward e-mails. (Also, avoiding all the other forms of communication that I ought to be making with other people, as I have a growing stack of thank-you notes & things to reply to...) However, I seem to have managed to paint myself into a bit of a corner, plot-wise, and brilliant ideas are not currently coming to me. Anyone else have any thoughts on solutions to this dilemma?

There isn’t a good way to make it so no one can fictionalize you without making it so your family and friends can’t tell stories about what you did last week as well. In a situation where having people write fiction about you causes you to live whatever adventures they dream up... how do you prevent it ever happening again?

Real content will one day follow. Not sure what day yet, though.

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[dante-di-pietro.livejournal.com]

Move to a major urban area. Have no online presence.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

This would minimize the risk of being picked up by random strangers, but it doesn't do anything to prevent meeting someone briefly at a party who likes your name, or the co-worker or business associate who has also met you very briefly.

The fact that the phenomenon isn't widely know doesn't help, either, so there's no particular societal taboo against picking a name at random out of the phone book.