Have You Ever Written Yourself Into A Story?

[gordo12]

As in a cameo or? I have this scene that will be in the story, no matter what. It was going to be short. But I can expand it to incorporate some dialogue to help the story and easily insert myself in. Mentoring a decision with one of the main characters.

Has anyone done it? Feedback from readers?

PS, it's not an ego thing. I think it would be cool.

 

[BiscuitHammer]

Not as such, no. I certainly have avatars and stand-ins for me, and these people tend to think like I do and follow my ideals.

Sometimes in some stories, I'll break the Fourth Wall and have the characters complain about 'the Writer', as if he/I am the source of all their woes. Which is fair.

I've written readers into stories, if the requests aren't too loopy or unreasonable. I did it in my Christmas Comedy, I've done it at least twice in the Alexaverse, and I've done it in my Time Rider story.

But just li'l ol' me as a character? No. My other characters would no doubt beat me up.

 

[KeithD]

None of my characters are totally me. I and a lot of my characters have had some of the same experiences--often in the same places, with other characters suspiciously similar to people I encountered there doing that.

 

[gordo12]

I was thinking in the wise omniscient pov. You could move the dialogue along while giving advice to the character. The advice you were going to write anyway.

Maybe like a priest giving advice. LOL, I'd be dodging lightning bolts after.

I was drawing a blank, wondering if I'd ever read it in a story here. I believe there was a Cussler novel where he did that.

 

[YDB95]

Some of my characters are certainly based on myself in various ways, but none is an exact match for me.

I did, though, include a direct reference to myself in this story:

She turned to Paige's computer. "Do your parents monitor the sites you visit?"

"I don't think so," Paige said. "Besides, if you're going to a porn site, the ones my dad looks at are probably worse."

"I don't even want to know how you know that," Allie said. "But it's pretty mild porn anyway. Ever hear of Literotica.com?"

"Sure," Paige said. "I even tried reading a few stories there once, but they mostly weren't very good."

"Most of them aren't," Allie agreed. "But there's this one guy who writes beautiful stories about women like me..." With a few clicks she had his story list pulled up.

Paige looked at the screen name. "YDB95? What does that stand for? Does it mean anything?"

"I have no idea what it means," Allie admitted. "But he really knows how to portray a hairy pussy as the sexiest thing on earth. If you can't understand how I could embrace my natural beauty, I think this will help."

I got the idea for that after getting several comments on several different stories telling me I should write more stories about women with big bushes. I'm always glad to hear that kind of encouragement, but usually it's clear that the reader hasn't looked at any of my other stories and found that most of them feature at least one hairy pussy.

Sure enough, no one has made such a comment on that particular story.

 

[gordo12]

Some of my characters are certainly based on myself in various ways, but none is an exact match for me.

I did, though, include a direct reference to myself in this story:



I got the idea for that after getting several comments on several different stories telling me I should write more stories about women with big bushes. I'm always glad to hear that kind of encouragement, but usually it's clear that the reader hasn't looked at any of my other stories and found that most of them feature at least one hairy pussy.

Sure enough, no one has made such a comment on that particular story.

That direct write-in is exactly what I'm thinking. User name included.

 

[SimonDoom]

Sort of. My story Slut Lessons for Scott's Wife has a character named Simon who is a stand-in for me. He acts as an orchestrator in the story of the events that happen. He looks like me, or at least a slightly younger version of me. He's a fantasy projection of me. It's a story I wrote in response to a request by a couple, so I inserted myself into the story as a character who was helping a couple fulfill their fantasies as a parallel to my writing a story to respond to this couple's fantasies.

 

[KeithD]

That direct write-in is exactly what I'm thinking. User name included.

I write my habu publishing name into my stories--including the titles of work published under that name. A recently posted one, "Cover Stud Obsession" is riddled with such references.

 

[PennameWombat]

I was thinking in the wise omniscient pov. You could move the dialogue along while giving advice to the character. The advice you were going to write anyway.

Maybe like a priest giving advice. LOL, I'd be dodging lightning bolts after.

A number of my characters play soccer and/or Ultimate Frisbee, because I have for decades and can write with deep detail. Same with baseball. I have characters who work in computer science and related fields because, well, you get the idea. I have characters who attend various sorts of conferences and expos because...

I also specifically added dachshunds (we have three...) into my most recently published story

But I've never added me. Nor had the thought or desire to do so...

I was drawing a blank, wondering if I'd ever read it in a story here. I believe there was a Cussler novel where he did that.

Indeed he did. And I've read it, although I've only ever read one Clive Cussler book. I cannot recall the title, it was a long time ago and it was a thick-enough paperback I bought at an airport due to brainlock leaving my intended reading material behind (way before ebooks...) But, some quick online searching indicates Cussler often inserted himself, and at least one of his dachshunds, into most books. The one I read, he and the doxie were on a yacht in the (I think) South Pacific and rescued the male and female MCs.

 

[MColton84]

As in a cameo or? I have this scene that will be in the story, no matter what. It was going to be short. But I can expand it to incorporate some dialogue to help the story and easily insert myself in. Mentoring a decision with one of the main characters.

Has anyone done it? Feedback from readers?

PS, it's not an ego thing. I think it would be cool.

Writing is how I deal/cope with the world around me and the things I can't understand. I have appeared in a number of my stories under 3 different names. Sometimes I am the protagonist, sometimes the antagonist, and sometimes just a fly on the wall. I would like to think that all authors are in their works in some respects. But that's just me.

 

[SisterJezabel]

I wrote my coffee order into a story once and had a character call it out

I often base characters on people I know, but change the name to protect the innocent or something... Other times I have people give characters advice using phrases I often use or am known for.

 

[Little_Horny_Redhead]

As a new inexperienced writer I find this really interesting. My writing so far is about my personal fantasies so whilst the names are all different the character's thoughts and feelings are definitely akin to my own (with a few variations).

I think your idea is great though and can imagine it would read well.

 

[oggbashan]

None of my characters are me (except in Og's blogs). Some of the experiences are mine. Some of the characters are vaguely based on people I knew but never just one individual - all are amalgams except one. Fag-Ash Lil in Jeanne's story Unatit was an actual person, now long dead, and believe it or not, she is an accurate portrayal of a specific individual who used to be a familiar sight in our town.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Lol. Chloe in”A Troll is Haunting Tex’s.” There’s a lot of me in the fictional Chloe. It’s a Mary Sue, of course, but bits and pieces of reality are woven in. There’s a couple of other stories of mine where bits and pieces of me make their way in. Anything with taekwondo to start with, and my skydiving story too.

 

[TxRad]

A whole bunch of my stories have me in them in one form or another.

My "Memories of" series are all more or less true.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Yep and I've written myself into a corner on occasion.

 

[NotWise]

I was thinking in the wise omniscient pov. You could move the dialogue along while giving advice to the character. The advice you were going to write anyway.

Maybe like a priest giving advice. LOL, I'd be dodging lightning bolts after.

I was drawing a blank, wondering if I'd ever read it in a story here. I believe there was a Cussler novel where he did that.

This made me grin.

Gary didn't know who the grey-haired man was, and he was confused when the old man put his hand on his shoulder and pulled him aside. "Look son," he said, "I know you're competitive and that laying your boss's wife is a challenge staring you in the face. I gotta tell you though, if you go through with it, then I'm writing you out of the story. I can't have that kind of misbehavior here."

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Me as in my entire person, nope. I don't have that kinda ego.

 

[Privates1stClass]

gordo12 asked

Have You Ever Written Yourself Into A Story?

Matter of fact, yes. I figured a tale which actually happened would be better than something I dreamed up. So I wrote what happened as I recalled all the details. Oh, I did add some embellishments and changed the dates and places, but otherwise, it was me and my girlfriend (who eventually became my wife).

 

[Emirus]

I was thinking in the wise omniscient pov. You could move the dialogue along while giving advice to the character. The advice you were going to write anyway.

Maybe like a priest giving advice. LOL, I'd be dodging lightning bolts after.

I was drawing a blank, wondering if I'd ever read it in a story here. I believe there was a Cussler novel where he did that.

I’ve read many of the Clive Cussler books and he did like to insert himself into a story for a few paragraphs. He would describe himself physically and they would always ask, at the end of his little bit, his name and the character would say “Clive Cussler.”

In every story with a hero I always imagine myself as the hero, but I’m sure I’m not the only one who does that, whether they are a writer or a reader.

I’m sure many writers have imagined themselves as characters in their stories.

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[SouthernCrossfire]

Some of my experience shows up in some of my stories but the characters are never a stand-in for me. Such a story would be far too boring and would never be well received with me as an even semi-realistic character.

I’ve read many of the Clive Cussler books and he did like to insert himself into a story for a few paragraphs. He would describe himself physically and they would always ask, at the end of his little bit, his name and the character would say “Clive Cussler.”

This was my first thought on reading Gordo's question! Clive Cussler would show up and Dirk Pitt (the usual lead character in most of the earlier volumes before D Jr. and Summer showed up) would give him a "haven't I seen you somewhere before" look even though CC helped rescue him from danger more than once.

 

[gordo12]

It seems to me that Cussler wrote his car into them too. That was a beauty

 

[MelissaBaby]

My Fall and Rise is a slightly fictionalized memoir, but since Lit has no appropriate category for such works, I submitted it in Novels and Novellas.

There is a character in Mary and Alvin that is pretty damn close to being me.

 

[MColton84]

It seems to me that Cussler wrote his car into them too. That was a beauty

I'm definitely guilty of that. Most of the cars I've written into a story were at one time mine. The only exception being a Mini-cooper that belongs to my sister-in-law.

 

[KeithD]

Re writing yourself into your stories )):

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