I am an idiot, there are no other words... well there are probably a lot of deprecating ones... but that's beside the point.
So, I was reading something today from a long time ago, last year I think, perhaps a year and a month because I was in my first year of university. Anyway, in this thing I was reading, I was insulted... a lot. So it got me thinking about insults in general and I wondered about self-insert characters and how authors seem loathe to insult themselves in fiction form. Surely it's not that hard to make fun of yourself, what does the opinion of the internet count for?
For example if I wrote a fic about my past week it would be VERY boring. Unless you find descriptions of me playing street fighter or eating cake and feeling sick or walking around browsing for christmas presents, fun. There would be little to no dialogue and there wouldn't be many secondary characters to distract you from my mind-numbing boringness. You'd probably find Twilight more interesting, quite frankly.
My terrifically inane life aside, I can't see how people CAN self-insert. Nobody is quite as interesting as their fics make it seem they are, at least I've never met anyone quite so exciting. Does it count as a Self-Insert if the character they insert isn't as they are IRL?
Meh, ranty rant. Can you tell I'm bored?not as if my life currently is throwing up anything to stop me from being bored
What are your opinions?
So, I was reading something today from a long time ago, last year I think, perhaps a year and a month because I was in my first year of university. Anyway, in this thing I was reading, I was insulted... a lot. So it got me thinking about insults in general and I wondered about self-insert characters and how authors seem loathe to insult themselves in fiction form. Surely it's not that hard to make fun of yourself, what does the opinion of the internet count for?
For example if I wrote a fic about my past week it would be VERY boring. Unless you find descriptions of me playing street fighter or eating cake and feeling sick or walking around browsing for christmas presents, fun. There would be little to no dialogue and there wouldn't be many secondary characters to distract you from my mind-numbing boringness. You'd probably find Twilight more interesting, quite frankly.
My terrifically inane life aside, I can't see how people CAN self-insert. Nobody is quite as interesting as their fics make it seem they are, at least I've never met anyone quite so exciting. Does it count as a Self-Insert if the character they insert isn't as they are IRL?
Meh, ranty rant. Can you tell I'm bored?
What are your opinions?