| writing cliches This is a fun list of Writing blunders or cliches to be avoided. But the one about Mary Sues makes me hesitate. Doesn't every author, one who at least ends up writing dozens of novels, fall back to writing themselves into a novel? I have always said that authors who start their career in writing doing things other than writing, write more interesting novels because they are relating a full life. But later on, when their own life is focused entirely on writing, their main characters often end up as writers... it's the only experience they currently have to draw on. But is that a Mary Sue or only if they are placing their author character in situations they would like to be in? October 02 07 |
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