I've been writing YA novel, but I'm scared of making my character too Mary Sue. The story is about a princess that is sent to the enemy country...
I think we writers do a disservice to ourselves by acting like we are too good to write a Mary Sue. Maybe you are. I'm not. I like Mary Sues, and...
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.
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....
Hey guys, I'm currently in the process of writing a story for National Novel Writing Month, and I've just had a great idea for a plot. I...
Hey everyone, At the moment I'm mulling over the fact that my writing seems to be too 'academic'. For example, would it be best to write...
After finishing the first draft on a shorter story of mine, novella sized in other words, I noticed something odd. My MC shares a lot of the same...
It's a ubiquitous practice that whenever someone asks "How do I convince people to publish my book?" the response is "Write well", but I'm not...
Two things bother me whilst reading, or when I'm on this forum. One, is when the antag is merely a hollow hateable shell that just kind of wants...
Right, I have a question for you guys. In a new story im making, I'm having a little bit of trouble creating a name for the heroine/protaganist....
When you get someone with a big broken ego, who's a big procrastinator, who wants to become a big name author, you get someone like me. My name...
One of my characters, the only one I've tested so far, only got a 'mary sue' score of 11! I finally know with some certainty that my characters...
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...
This is the problem I'm having. In the novella I'm writing called Dreaming in Daisies I have this character named Hayden. Hayden does have Mary...
Hi. I hope I'm not being rude, but I would like some help with two protagonists and an antagonist for my heroic fantasy/supernatural/zombie...
Maybe not the first time you tried to tell a story, but perhaps the first time that the muse / writer state gripped you. I use the term...
I have noticed that people are faster to say Mary-Sue to a female character than to any male character. I know there are some characters (mostly...
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