I've seen "fear of Mary Sueage" used as a club to try to get writers to dumb down their own, original fiction characters.
Oh, that's awful. That sounds like people don't know how to create original characters -- because you have to have some reason to like the character you end up with, so that your reader will, too. There's a reason why all the fairy tales have beautiful wealthy princesses, etc., etc.
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Date: 2004-09-12 09:32 am (UTC)Oh, that's awful. That sounds like people don't know how to create original characters -- because you have to have some reason to like the character you end up with, so that your reader will, too. There's a reason why all the fairy tales have beautiful wealthy princesses, etc., etc.
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