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RE: Hello Mary Sue, Goodbye Readers
I'm reading an excellent book on that, at the moment, actually, by Chuck Wendig. Damn Fine Story.
It talks not so much about writing, but about storytelling. He believes, as I do, that the character is te architect of the story, instead of the writer.
It often frustrates me that my characters refuse to do what I want them to more often than not. Still, I realise that these are the stories that turn out the best of all. Because they're allowed to grow organically.
;-)
I think quite often my characters don't do what I want them to do because I don't know who they are. It's difficult to get out of my own head and into someone else's. And after reading the Mary Sue story, I think that might be what it's all about. Mary Sue is a way for a Trekkie to insert themselves as a hero(ine) into the Star Trek universe and be noticed by their favorite characters but she's just a shadow out of someone's brain, not a real person...