In a Fight against Mary Sues.

EDIT: this post has become redundant since DA deleted these wonderful articles because of new laws they put in place about using extracts from other works and since the articles use extracts from bad fan fiction to show their point.. they were destroyed. It was very sad.

I came across this Great series of Deviant Art articles on the subject of avoiding your character becoming a mary sue.

they are brilliant. read them. now.


http://news.deviantart.com/article/81533/
http://news.deviantart.com/article/84650/
http://news.deviantart.com/article/104556/

I think if one reads this, with the ideas of good character development in mind. it can be really helpful.