>Main character is author's self-insert.

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>>9462109
>Not inserting yourself into your books

>tfw all characters are self inserts

>>9462109
I'd like to self-insert myself into your boipussy

>>9462109
>not mythologizing your life story

never gonna make it

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>>9462109

This is why Ayn Rand is trash

>what is half of literature

>>9462109
>Book has funny "notes" on the bottom.
When did this become a thing? Books like Going Bovine or Beauty Queens became unreadable.

>>9462109
ikr? i fuckin HATE when authors write about their own experiences so BAD

>>9462109
Agreed. Proust is practically unreadable because of this.

>>9462109
well its a figment of said authors imagination
youre not going to get very far from self insert
unless of course you only read novels written by people possessed by the spirit of st germain

>>9462796
People actually do hate it when Black people do it

>>9462849
its usually executed poorly

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>He had piercingly grey blue eyes

>>9462109
haha yeah i HATE Ulysses and Portrait of the Artist ;v)

>>9462849
but that's because black experience is either wholly uninteresting or written by someone who in fact can not write worth a shit

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>>9462849
That's because niggers are fucking stupid.

>>9462796
Fuck off John

>>9462109
>Against Godly literature

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>self insert is the main villain

>>9462109
This happens so much it's ridiculous but you have to accept it. It's really temptingly easy, when you're trying to create a sympathetic character, to write a sensitive tortured intellectual who's generally passive and may become more active and interesting throughout the story, and you think you've created someone interesting, and look, it's a shitty fanfiction version of yourself.

Goethe's Werther and Wilhelm Meister, Dante as Dante, Joyce's Dedalus in Ulysses (although here Dedalus becomes more of a self-parody/removed from Joyce) and Portrait, Proust as himself in ISOLT, etc.

>>9462796
every author does this.