The Writing Class: Getting Worse

[ricevermicelli]

Last week, faced with Murder at the Bellagio and unable to contain my horror, I skipped writing class.

This week, one person has emailed me a story to review. It's highly incomplete. It features a main character whose "level, seamless, milk-sweet manner" makes people feel special in her presence.

Except for those of us it makes feel nauseated.

Comments

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

Death By Blandness? "She was drowned in tapioca pudding."

[ricevermicelli.livejournal.com]

When I was in college, one of my professors talked about ways to kill Fanny Price (the incredibly repressed heroine of "Mansfield Park"). He felt that strangling was the way to go, because if Fanny's eyes bugged out, that would be vulgar and satisfying.

I haven't thought of anything so right for Mary Sue yet, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time.

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

Any death for a Mary Sue must make her the center of attention, of course. And in mourning her, the principal characters must realize the depth of passion that they'd truly felt for her, and are unlikely to ever feel for anyone ever again. Hmmm. I wonder if Cheapass Games could do a Kill Mary Sue game, much like Kill Dr. Lucky? Each player would have the goals of killing off the other players without having the victims revealed to be the True Mary Sue.