Get used to it

My tentative pen name is a composite of names lifted from some songs that mean some stuff to me.

That so sounds like I'm thirteen. But it's not like that. It's very deep and meaningful. The two names I picked are both, in their contexts, examples of spectacular failure. I've always thought spectacular success was too much to hope for, but maybe I could be spectacular at failure. (But maybe success will come while I'm pursuing it?)

Anyway. They're in songs, which means they're quite familiar already. As applied to me, it's weird, but much less weird than anything else I've come up with. So. I figure time will get me used to it. Unless I end up hating it. But I'm constantly pregnant with the babies of capriciousness, and that's a danger with anything I'd pick.

I'd think just repeating it to yourself a bunch (in your head, maybe) would make it more familiar?

My potential pen name is my first and middle name. My first name is first, but my last name is always pronounced wrong. My middle name works well as a fake last name and would never be pronounced wrong.

The upside? I would use my real first name, so when someone calls Elizabeth or Liz (hence angeliz), I'll still turn my head.

The downside? When people use the full pen name (my real first name and middle name), I'll feel like my mother if scolding me... that will take some getting used to!

I've never had anyone call me by a pen name, so I have no idea about getting used to it.