pseudononymous
ok, question:
a friend of mine from college is starting a journal, and i'm thinking of submitting something for the inaugural issue. the problem is as follows: the piece would be one of those terrible memoir pieces that are so in vogue these days, and there are people in that story who a) aren't me, one of whom b) is still a good friend of mine (whose privacy i respect and would want to protect, and whose identity could be determined from the story by a few people if my name were on it). because of this, i'm strongly considering submitting under a pseudonym.
questions are as follows:
1) how sketchy is it to list things on your CV that you published under a pseudonym?
2) wtf do i pseudoname myself? i'm thinking something that actually sounds like a person's first/middle/last name, and preferably something sneakily but obscurely based on my own actual name (so that people in the know could laugh and feel clever and stuff).
3) on the other hand, is it more important to publish under my own name in case this journal gets some attention someday, in which case i have to call my friend and ask if he minds, and just cross my fingers that the one person in the world i wouldn't want to read it never googles me and finds it?
4) or back to the first hand, since i'll inevitably end up publishing academic stuff in the next few years as well, should i just take this opportunity to start putting my creative/non-academic writing out there under a different identity and keep them both permanently separate?
thoughts and advice greatly appreciated. :)