Ack, I can't stand Mary-Sues. But admittedly, I have been guilty of using them in my stories. When I first started writing fanfiction I was really in to Harry Potter, and one of my characters was such a horribly perfect Mary Sue it made you want to be sick (though I didn't notice at the time). Black hair, very very blue eyes, pretty, mysterious, clever, you know what I mean.
Does anyone have any tips on how to stop female characters becoming Mary-Sues? I'd suggest not letting them join the Fellowship, giving them at least one flaw or something they're unhappy about. Give them a really big nose *heh heh*.
I write on fanfiction.net under the pen name of Daisy Brambleburr, and I've got a lot of fics up.
Here's a question, have you ever read a Mery Sue fic (a serious one, not a parody) that you thought was really good?
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