Speaking of Mary Sue

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This is the only story I ever wrote that I intentionally considered the character a Mary Sue. No, she's really not modeled on me. But I'd served as the editor of a corporate newsletter once, so I thought it might be fun to write Mary Sue in that position. In the first draft of this story, I even named her Mary Sue. But then, I was afraid it would detract from the story itself, so I renamed her Maryanne.

I like creating and writing women characters and I'm sure they all have a piece of my own self in them. I did write a Mary Sue ---painfully so ---when I was writing MFU at age 14. I still have those handwritten stories somewhere. But since I came back to writing MFU in my 30s, my Mary Sue identity character has always been Solo.