Wintern

Origin:
Nate Winter + intern = Wintern

Definition:
n. a professional intern or apprentice to Nate Winter

Exemplum:
Nasty Nate and the Winterns were a copywriting tour de force and a family band that toured de country.

Commentary:
As those lacking in means and ambition are wont to proclaim, necessity is the mother of invention (although Billy Mays gave her a run for the title). At ye olde daye job, there was confusion between the novitiates who swore oathes of fealty unto me, and the other interns. And with this need to differentiate the average, forgettable, incontinent agency intern from my own, a portmanteau for the ages was born-- Wintern.

While I try to maintain a professional distance between my career and my more pedestrian authorship (like this blog*), some opportunities for intersection (Wintersection?) are too seductive to leave in their stubbornly separate loveless bedroom down the hall-- today's term being one of them.

Credit:
Nate Winter

* which happens to be another great portmanteau. "Blog" combines "web" and "log" and then lazily truncates the first two letters.