Speaking of Mary Sue

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

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.

Comments

[mrua7.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I remember that one. (she says with a smile)

[glennagirl.livejournal.com]

I like this one, partly because it does emphasize what is so often neglected: the world of these men and women is brutal. It's not a nice place and it does require a hardness mixed in with an admirable sense of justice. The partnership of Solo and Kuryakin isn't about some BFF fantasy, their work world less about diplomacy than survival.
Maryann doesn't strike me as Mary Sue, although she might be very much like all of us if we could have been in her place, and witnessed what she did.
Thanks for posting the story.

[jkkitty.livejournal.com]

I remember this one, and remembering thinking at the time that the guys were right, people weren't ready to hear the true of their job. Just reread it and still feel that way.