On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 02:50:30 +0000 "Sally M" smanton@hotmail.com writes:

<grin> you're too kind, but then you haven't *seen* the half-finished burbles on my half-drive (or still in my head) that I mentioned. Though I still have a fondness for the blatant Mary-Sue fantasy (unwritten, of course

• doesn't everyone have at least one?)

OK, I realize I'm helplessly naive (I just found out one little bit of Yiddish slang I picked up in high school [besides meaning what I thought it did] was also hideously obscene, so you could say I'm exceptionally in-tune right now with the fact that I'm hopeless), but I just can't build up an aversion to Mary Sue, especially the character Sally just described who is _not_ a fan disguised as Wonder Woman sneaking into the story to sweep the character of choice of his feet. And how on earth does a writer put in any original characters without being accused of creating Mary Sues?

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