Yep, well my latest fic is about to get two het female characters and I am terrified that either one might become a Mary Sue!(My other het character, Andrann, definitely isn't...) But I don't think that drawing upon incidences from real life is 'self-insertion', as so many mainstream authors do that as well. 'Write about what you know' is one adage that I have heard of time and time again.
As for archive elsewhere, I know that I first read 'Lorien Origin' (and 'Lord Celeborn's Book', Alex!) on the now-defunct Galadhrim.net. I am so glad, because that was the first LOTR fiction site I found and it led me to so many great authors :-)
However, I soon found the trail of the Purple Bunny, and have spent many hours perusing you wonderful stories so-
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Date: 2006-04-11 05:54 pm (UTC)As for archive elsewhere, I know that I first read 'Lorien Origin' (and 'Lord Celeborn's Book', Alex!) on the now-defunct Galadhrim.net. I am so glad, because that was the first LOTR fiction site I found and it led me to so many great authors :-)
However, I soon found the trail of the Purple Bunny, and have spent many hours perusing you wonderful stories so-
THANK YOU, ZHIE!!!!