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Dear BDH,

As you know, sometimes we use certain writers to help us illustrate our blog posts. It has been brought to our attention that they need to be named.

We will start with the fan favorite: Working Writer Man, the one we all know and love.

Yes, we are talking about you. What are you doing?

Oh you’re working. So sorry to disturb. How is it going?

You’re feeling inspired. How nice. Pass some of that inspiration my way. Do you think you’re going to meet your deadline?

We will leave you to your pain.

Leave you naming suggestions below, one name per reader. Comments with multiple names will be removed to avoid confusion. Multiple comments from the same readers will be removed also. You have one shot, so make it count. If you see the name you like, comment +1 under it. We will gather top suggestions and make a poll so you can vote on them.

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  5. After some digging, I found out who this fine fellow is – his name was Mortimer St John Puddleton, a scion of a cadet branch of the Shropshire Puddletons, who were the Earls of Justawhimsey. His cousin, the 11th Earl, whose breeding was so refined as to make him almost comatose, asked young Mortimer to join his household as both the Librarian (the library at Justawhimsey would make a monk weep) and Factor Factotum for the Estate (as he and none of his offspring could rub two thoughts together). Mortimer apparently leapt at the opportunity, as his branch of the family Puddleton had the misfortune of investing in a shipment of tea to the then Colonies that was seriously damaged by a band of upstart revolutionaries. The only other thing I could find was a notation that he lived out his days in peace and harmony and died a very old man. Unfortunately, the Earldom of Justawhimsey was abandoned when the 15th Earl died trying to mount ice skates on his favorite Hunter and the horse took exception. Alas, nothing remains of the fine house and even finer library.

    • I can definitely see the Edgar and the Raven, LOL. Edgar Raven the Third. Or to riff on others: Raveningquill. (he of the ravening Quill, LOL). Or Edgar Je Revien (I come back, to come back, as in makes snappy come backs?) *Inspired by the Perfume Je Revien by Worth of the same name

  13. I’ve always thought he looked like a younger version of Ludwig van Beethoven, based on that famous painting of him writing music. So with a germanic variation of above suggests,

    Ludwig van Bookmann

  19. Mercurial. Full name Mercurial Sebastian Kensington.

    A man who, true to his name, has ever changing, yet humorous, mood swings and is no stranger to taking the proverbial side trip when it comes to ideas and possibilities. A man whose editor has nails bitten to the quick because Mercurial has a habit of changing his mind more frequently than usual as the deadline approaches.

    He takes tea over coffee, not because he finds it more calming or sophisticated, but because his absolutely precious, irreplaceable assistant (his words that Mercurial demanded I include in this intro) has threatened numerous times to have his name legally changed to that of the squirrel from Hoodwinked. After he came across the legal papers his assistant had him sign while he was (as usual) distracted, he realized there were some battles he would have to lose if he were to maintain some semblance of dignity.

    Mercurial may be odd, a bit disheveled in appearance at times (most of the time), but he is a working writer man…as described needed in the above post.

  27. He reminds me of Severus Snapes (Alan Rickman) in Harry Potter. So Percival Snapes.

  31. I read down a ways & did not see my choice, so I’ll enter it, with apologies if it has already been proposed.

    Charles Dickens or Dickens for short.

  36. His name is Aloysius Bunstable. He driven, intense and more than a little manic. Fueled by tea, he pens florid prose and collapses in despair when he’s assigned an editor with a penchant for Hemingway.

  46. Antoine de Bustarde, Marquis de la Snarque; Comte des Coullion; Sieur de Fartre, auteur et gentilhomme

    Bien sûr

  48. I had seriously considered Theophilus Shickel, because how could you be anything but a writer when your mother named you that. However, since looking through the suggestions, I have to go with Edgar.

  50. I’ll step away from my original thoughts of Wilbur (why did I go to the Wright Brothers?) and Sebastian, and go for Bastion.

    Also, if I ever saw that young man on the street, I’d want to shout him a beer, just to listen to him. With that expressive face, what a storyteller!!

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