The Cons of a Pen Name

So, I have been looking for a writing job, and sent out applications, well I have been looking for any sort of job, but anyways...
so i write for www.beaureview.net under a pen name, and forgot to mention that to the one place I applied,( of course I don't realize this) so I wake up this afternoon, and open my inbox, I see that I have a reply to one of my applications, this is what it said- I took out the name of the company and the name of who sent it to me.


Hi Erica,
Thank you very much for your reply and resume, regarding the writing position at (magazine) However, I am somewhat confused by your writing sample -- the Caffeine piece appears to have been writing by a Melinda Waltson. Could you please explain this?
Thank you!


I felt like such and idiot, why didn't I think of explaining it in the first place, I usually do, but now I just have to wonder how many jobs I applied for and forgot to mention that- the cons of having a pen name!

P.S: they spelt my pen name wrong, it's Melinda Walton, not Waltson! But Waltson has a nice ring too it, maybe I will use it later down the road.

I have not kept my goal

Well, it has been a few weeks since I posted a poem, and I don't know when it will happen again, not that I have been busy doing much besides visiting family, and I admit I have tried to write some poems, but nope, nothing that I liked enought to post.