Has anyone ever used themselves or a parody of themselves as a character? A friend of mine and former teacher, Andy Rorabeck, once encouraged me to do this, but I haven't tried it yet. I'm not so sure how this would work. Does anybody else here do this?
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Jul 11, 2008 - 11 19
Yes. My 'masterpiece' (the one thing I'd like to see in print before I die) has a version of myself, taken down a different path. Well, there are two characters that represent me (bi-polar's no fun), and they're the best developed characters in the series.
...They also get all the best lines ~_^... kidding.
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Jul 14, 2008 - 14 31
Stephen King did so in The Dark Tower series. I think he showed up in Book 5: Wolves of the Calla...perhaps it was Book 4: Wizard and Glass. It was a definite WTF!? moment, but I was able to go with it.
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Jul 14, 2008 - 15 01
I don't personally do it, but in addition to Stephen King as already mentioned, I know that Clive Cussler does so at the end of every book he has that I've read, and when I brought it up with someone, she said that it was a normal part of each of his books. And beyond it being a brief moment of confusion, it didn't seem all that forced, and actually fit in rather well.
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Jul 25, 2008 - 10 01
Kurt Vonnegut, in quite a few of his books, writes himself in. For example, look at the first chapters of Slaughterhouse Five.
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Aug 5, 2008 - 08 49
I know that Douglas Copeland did it in JPod, where he pretty much added himself as a main (alsmot bad-guy ish) character.
It was a bit odd at first, but it actually worked out to be really cool.
I think as long as you can add in 'yourself' without being too positive or negative about it (Ie. Don't focus on all your bad/good qualities, like any other character really) than it'd turn out pretty cool
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Aug 9, 2008 - 19 43
In my trilogy, my MC Emma basically is me. 'Course there are many different things (it's fantasy...so she has Magic, I don't), she's blonde (-r than I am, not mentally!), shorter, smarter....But other than that we are the same. Those of my friends who have read the first book very much agree with me and call me "Emma." It's kinda like a strange DID, except she never "fully" comes out...darn. It works that the trilogy is told in her perspective. I do refer to her in the third person, however, but sometimes I will go "I" in txt messages to friends. I put lots of emphasis on my good qualities and gave her all this power. She's a super tree-hugger, hooray!!! (she has Mother Nature-like powers, and I am, literally, a tree-hugger)
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Aug 16, 2008 - 18 18
In my first novel (I call it my first novel, because it's the first one I've finished since I was ten) my MC and her sister are pretty much autobiographical. Not the things that happen to them, but their personalities. Oh, and their best friend has bits of me as well. The way he eats, and the fact that he hid in the bathroom during the scary parts of Sweeney Todd...
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