: Re: Self inserts that have influence from your life I saw this question being asked and it lead me to wonder something.... It seems that self inserting your.... person is not considered good practice

There's a difference between using elements of real life to help you shape a character and creating a Mary Sue. Drawing on reality, and autobiography, is fine, as long your characters â€”Â all of them â€”Â are rounded and realistic, with flaws and strengths.

This is more than "a knight in high fantasy can't have a fondness for rice balls and Van Halen." It means that your character has to have his or her own arc, motivation, backstory, and personality. It means s/he has to be wrong sometimes, and lose sometimes, before winning at the end.

If you're concerned, write your story and then do an editing pass where you just focus on fine-tuning that particular character to make sure he is himself and not you.

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: Re: Self inserts that have influence from your life I saw this question being asked and it lead me to wonder something.... It seems that self inserting your.... person is not considered good practice

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: How do I improve "beige" text? I have a tendency to write text that's on the "beige" side. I think it's the engineer in me that tends to write text that's very straightforward and strictly

: 1) Use the ellispses and emphasis, and tighten up the spaces. This man, this...monster...has done something despicable. There's no typesetting reason to have spaces on both sides of those

: How much work does a (nonfiction) ghostwriter typically do? I just finished the charming short memoir from actor Cary Elwes, As You Wish, about his experiences while filming The Princess Bride.

: If somone is bilingual how does it affect their daily life? I am bilingual myself but I don't think it affects me in any way. But I think that's because I am not in a position to speak

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