Better Late than Never: The June 2006 Lemon Contest

[Nate Hunter]

Thanks, but you also made a good point about self-insertion here.

Yes it's said for credibility, but when the author is known to be such a person, it weakens the story...

I would argue that if any Season 1 character was likely to become a 23-year-old virgin, it would have to be Jyou.

we have a reliable response from a Wisemon story -- masturbation > uncommitted sex.

A Wisemon story, or the story of my life?

Well given your style, I'd probably say both are true. I won't argue on Jyou's likelihood of being the only one a virgin at 23, but different cultures do breed different attitudes towards sex.

I know the dangers of self-insertion, and that's one reason I too so long to write the latest chapter of Lost Light -- it relies upon my self-insertion character, and I had to make sure I was showing myself within the story as a flawed character who the reader could potentially identify with in some way or another. The next chapter is going to take time because of the different point of view (an eager, rather than hopeless, trainee, beginning his first lessons) as well as making sure I lay things out properly for Blink to appear in later chapters.

I stopped writing Digi-Slutz for two reasons. The first was that Tai was turning away from being Tai and into a self-insertion (granted, I don't have a sister, but he was becoming too much like me for comfort -- which is the last thing I wanted in that story), and the second was that I didn't feel I could do that justice and keep it as a story. It was turning into a pure fetish piece instead of a story, so I stopped writing it. But that story is an example of self-identification going too far.

I'm being careful to leave my role minor in most of the stories I insert myself into. I may bring things about (see "I Wish"), but the story can't afford to be about me or it loses validity. This is one reason I'm holding Genki back during my next big excursion (my Halloween story) and trying to keep the focus where it belongs -- which is the other Ancient Digimon in the story. It's one reason I feel ashamed to keep Mugendai Valentine 2002, as well as the Mimi and Genki chapters of Future Lives. Genki is too much of a self insertion still for me to do him proper justice.

I weakened the stories in those not with the sex, but with the self-insertion. I was careful in Lost Light with my self-insertion, which ended up showing some time after I had created the initial cast list. Daimon was already supposed to be a character there before he was me, and everything that happened to him was planned from the start, not done because he's my self-insertion.

. . . But I'm rambling. And off the topic of the contest.

You strike me as my doppelganger. Or perhaps I'm yours. But which of us is the good and which the evil? Well, if it's true, I'm probably your dark side. You'd be the one who waits for the right girl while I'd be the one who goes with the drunk girl who's ready to score (as long as I'm already interested in her, at least). So I can see where you're coming from with the self-identification, and as I said, I've done it to my shame before.

Once again, thanks for the new song.