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Nov. 25th, 2006 03:20 pmAdvice on MarySues - as in, avoiding them.
I have this idea for a Supernatural fic. It involves an original character (who has started talking to me and won't shut up! Cause I need that during NaNo, right...) who is female. It's going to eventually be OT3 (cause I found a fic using a character that was in an ep of the show that worked on that principle, and while I can't quite get into Wincest (I'm trying, but nothing I've read so far has really worked for me) I can *totally* see them w/ the same girl at the same time.
ANYWAY, I want to write this. I know that no matter what I do, someone, somewhere, will decide that since it's an OFC it's a Mary Sue, but I want to minimize that reaction. I don't want her to be that kind of a character, I want her to be "real". Have any of you lovely people written fics w/ OFCs? (Or OMCs, for that matter?) Or read fics you really like with original chars in them that work? How do you think one should go about making a character *not* be the dreaded Mary Sue?
I have this idea for a Supernatural fic. It involves an original character (who has started talking to me and won't shut up! Cause I need that during NaNo, right...) who is female. It's going to eventually be OT3 (cause I found a fic using a character that was in an ep of the show that worked on that principle, and while I can't quite get into Wincest (I'm trying, but nothing I've read so far has really worked for me) I can *totally* see them w/ the same girl at the same time.
ANYWAY, I want to write this. I know that no matter what I do, someone, somewhere, will decide that since it's an OFC it's a Mary Sue, but I want to minimize that reaction. I don't want her to be that kind of a character, I want her to be "real". Have any of you lovely people written fics w/ OFCs? (Or OMCs, for that matter?) Or read fics you really like with original chars in them that work? How do you think one should go about making a character *not* be the dreaded Mary Sue?
