My most outragous Mary-Sue? That would be Victoria. From a Cheaper by the Dozen knock-off I wrote when I was seven. She was a triplet. Her sister's names? I'm ashemed to admit it: NICHOLE AND MICHELLE. Yes! Vicky, Nicky, and, of course, Mickey.

SHAME

~Spades

Heh, great writing. Oi, my old stuff was pretty fail. Once I did something I consider tantamount to blasphemy: My character started out in a labyrinth and escaped the labyrinth on the next page, only to meet a random army of kobolds and have to fight for her life with nothing but a huge spear and a wizard that lacked magic. Oh yes, and she survived.

Ugh, STARTING in a labyrinth. GAWSH! I love labyrinths. Why on Earth would I START in one!? Labyrinths should be things you have to work towards so that when characters DO somehow end up in one, they undergo brutal psychological/emotional/physical/mental/spiritual warfare. I treated labyrinths with such low regard... Labyrinths are the epitome of epic. Kay, enough about my labyrinth obsession...

I believe I have written THE worst pokemon fanfiction ever. And the most retarded Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction. I don't know what I was thinking in those days... All my characters were so similar. And the ones that weren't were blatantly different XD

Oh yes, and then there was that Humpty Dumpty story... Humpty had a friend named Ben. Ben dared Humpty to sit on the wall for three straight days. Humpty dared Ben. Both had a staring contest to decide who was dared. Humpty lost. Then he sat on the wall. Then guess what? (I bet you won't see this coming!) He falls. Then everyone had omelettes, scrambled eggs, etc etc forever after.

And then there was Sephir. Oh Sephir. Now he has checks and balances but before I changed things up... He was a half bird, half human-looking creature that could live for 20 years, bend/shift time AND space, heal the worst wounds, perform the most difficult spells, and oh, guess what else? Read people's thoughts. He was basically a god.

Horrible writing is a phase all writers must go through I suppose.

I know exactly what you mean...the worst is when you read such a bad story! Then for the heck of it you read what others had to write about it and every single bloody idiot comments that it's so wonderful! I can't stand it! I loved your sense of humour in this, it was idillic in the sense that we can all learn from revisiting past 'mistakes'. I've written my own Mary-Sue's none of which, thankfully, I've ever posted. I know when it sucks, and it sucks when I know... Well I've 'talked your ear off' enough for now, good day to you and thank you for the much needed laugh!

~bbyluv

I'm still kinda insecure about all my writing, so I'd probably say almost all my characters are Mary Sue-ish. I try to make them not, but eh. -shrug-

I feel like a bad writer, too, when I re-read what I write. Your piece made me smile and reflect on my previous writings. I love your description, "Edward Cullen on Anne Rice pills". After helping a teacher grade papers for two days, your Mary Sue story sounds great. I'm reviewing because of the lovely review you left for "Corruption and Innocence". I'm really bad with Mary Sues. I try to make them non-Mary Sues and then just make it worse. ;) Have a wonderful day.