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Sometimes (as an intelligent species, and therefore creative, speculative about reality and so on...) we want to experience some situations which aren't possible at all. Then as a writer you can cr...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T13:12:58Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/48852 License name: CC BY-SA 4.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
#2: Initial revision
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M.N.Raia
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2019-12-08T13:12:58Z (almost 5 years ago)
Sometimes (as an intelligent species, and therefore creative, speculative about reality and so on...) we want to experience some situations which aren't possible at all. Then as a writer you can create a character who "lives that cool stuff which I (the writer) WANTED but isn't possible." Well, this thought defines the notion of "A character who was born to fulfill an author's power fantasy [1]." But, again, as a writer you introduce a story. Then you have a character who has this "feature of a Canon Sue" but isn't. Considering a part of this video [1], how can I identify a Canon Sue? I mean, suppose that you want to fly by yourself. Are you really creating a Canon Sue by inventing a character who can "live your dream"/"do something that the author wants to do but is impossible in our reality" (fly by yourself), even though you have a proper story of this character to tell? * * * <sup>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXVGIi1m28" rel="noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXVGIi1m28</a> (in time interval of 3:16 - 3:20)</sup>
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-11-06T11:56:02Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 8