(Sorry if this post is in the wrong category!!) Is anyone else super critical of the way they write or create their female characters?...
These are my results from the Mary Sue Test I took:...
Hello Writing-Community, I think everyone knows it. You wrote a spectacular, awesome story. However, something sounds wrong.—It’s the character!...
Bare with me here I this is kind of long and I'm stuck. How do you avoid creating this type of cliche character people will hate....
I find this concept very hard to understand. Please help me.
I don't like mary sue characters. I find them to be insufferable and inorganic not too mention I find such characters to be very fake. That's why...
I thought this was quite hilarious - http://www.springhole.net/writing/marysue.htm - check it out if you want. I had no idea there were so many...
I've been thinking a lot about how Mary Sues and how they relate to my fandom, and I realized that the bar is in a very funny place. I'd love to...
She is a 16 year old , living in Melbourne, Australia. In the rich suburb of Toorak, which is just a 5 minute drive to the CBD of Melbourne. Her...
Among all the other annoying fads out there in the literary world (cough, bloodsuckers, cough, cough), there are a few that are a bit...
First, let me say that I hate Mary-Sues. Hate. I loathe them with every fiber of my being. The last thing I've ever wanted is to write one myself....
Mary Sue, the enemy of character creation (for those you who don't know it's a name associated with a character who is generally too good/...
I use to write fanfiction on a regular basis, writing with reckless abandoned and a pile of advice books & writer essays but over time the advice...
So, this is my dilemma. I've got a character that I want to be like, the super best swordsman/fighter/strategist in the world etc. Pretty much, I...
I have honestly never heard these terms before I signed onto this forum. I’ve seen them mentioned in many, many threads as though they should be...
I'm trying to see if my character is a Mary Sue. Though she has come to me pretty naturally thus far, I'm getting worried that some people may...
I have a character who is a Mary Sue in that she's gorgeous and ridiculously intelligent for her age. Her personality is pretty much that of a...
My freind has taken up writing fairly recently, and she is terrified about her character being a Mary Sue. I know that a lot of people don't like...
Even the most interesting, thought out, and well-written of characters shouldn't be the sole focus of a story. This is because each character has...
(Warning: long post ahead! Sorry, but no TL;DR) Okay, so, hello there. : ) I was writing a novel but I put it on hold when I decided I...
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