"Sally M" smanton@hotmail.com wrote:
Nicola wrote: <You amaze me! Star 4 is one of the zines I've bought, and I assumed from your wonderful Christmas story in it, and those I've found on-line, that you were a very experienced writer.>
<grin> you're too kind, but then you haven't *seen* the half-finished burbles on my half-drive (or still in my head) that I mentioned. Though I still have a fondness for the blatant Mary-Sue fantasy (unwritten, of course
- doesn't everyone have at least one?) where the Original Female Character
(small, round, clutzy, absent-minded, makes Vila look brave) loses Orac's key, breaks her teleport bracelet, loses her teleport bracelet, loses all the teleport bracelets, breaks Orac, loses Avon, breaks *Zen*, loses the entire crew ... and never does recall the vital piece of information which both the good guys and the bad guys are trying to get from her :-)
I would say that she is not a Mary Sue, but a different sort of character perhaps?
Jacqui