More on the Mary Sue and the Marty Stu
I have written before about the Mary Sue and the Marty Stu/Gary Stu. It’s rather fun to poke fun at the most outrageous versions of
June 20, 2023
I have written before about the Mary Sue and the Marty Stu/Gary Stu. It’s rather fun to poke fun at the most outrageous versions of
If an author is fretting about having created a Mary-Sue or Marty-Stu, then the chances are probably that she or he hasn’t. The attitude of
I am a bit perturbed (I’m good at being perturbed, aren’t I?) at a New Age view which has infiltrated popular thinking. A recent blog
I always find it interesting how through reading fiction written by authors at about the time that the story is set, or shortly afterwards, you
I wrote a longish post about research for historical novels and changing opinions on ‘facts’ in history, and guess what – my PC has
My PC has just eaten a longish post I write all about research for historical novels, and the changing nature of the understanding of what
It is an interesting fact that US English retains some of the words and expressions of seventeenth and eighteenth century English, which are wrongly thought
The literary critic Graham Handley writes of the difficulty of creating a character who is very good: ‘It is a strange but true fact that
I wrote a longish post about research for historical novels and changing opinions on ‘facts’ in history, and guess what – my PC has
I don’t know how much most authors base their characters on people they have known. I would guess that most combine various characteristics taken from
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