On Friday 20 February 2009 19:21, Kardas Fox wrote:
> In general fiction, it's a technique that has to be used with great
> caution. In fanficiton, it's just a bad idea.
It would be more true to say that it is something that should only be done by
the better authors.
The current heavy handed rule you sometimes see in anime fandom comes from a
wave of mostly horrid self-inserts in the mid-90s. The irony is that it was
one of the best self-inserts that set that wave off[1].
[1] Part of why it worked was that the initial story was only even intended to
be a "do I have these characters down" piece set at the writer's college so
that he would have a set of known people to work with. It was far more
popular than he ever expected, and 17 years later he is still writing in the
setting he ended up creating, (with help).
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Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad)
Received on Sat Feb 21 2009 - 01:15:23 CST