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.

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[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.