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[nny]

Every fic that I write, no matter who the characters, is about me. Me and my characters.

I don't know if admitting that proves I'm enormously shallow, or whether that's just the way things are.

*shrugs*

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[soupytwist.livejournal.com]

Every story everybody writes is about them in some way; otherwise they couldn't have written it. Not that every story is directly and specifically about some real incident, it's not as easy a link as that, but a story you have no emotional resonance with, a story you don't get on a viceral level because you've been there, is a story that I strongly suspect would suck.

And you, darling? Do not suck.

[book-people.livejournal.com]

*delurks just to say* That explains why you are able to create such emotion in your characters (and elicit it in your readers). It's a gift, I think, to be able to take a piece of yourself and set it to paper (or computer screen, as the case may be) in such a way that other people feel by reading it. You aren't shallow. You're brilliant.

Adi *who will now re-lurk*

Nothing about anything, but...

[ms-ntropy.livejournal.com]

have you seen this interview with Paul Bettany in the Guardian Unlimited?

It made me chuckle loudly.

Re: Nothing about anything, but...

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Eeeehehehehe, an angel, eh?

He's so worth the fannish admiration. I don't get ridiculously girly over just anyone, you know.

Thanks for the link, lovely.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Everything any decent writer writes is about themselves in one way or another. What else do they have? It's all mary-sue-age, to a greater or lesser extent.

It only makes you shallow if you can't turn that self-experience outwards and use it as a filter through which to present the world -- if your fiction is shallow and masturbatory, if your mary sue is obvious and boring.

And yours in't. :)

[batyatoon]

If you find yourself in a fairytale, and you're asked a riddle by the guardian of the threshold, the answer is always some variant on "Myself."


Just sayin'.