Better Late than Never: The June 2006 Lemon Contest

[Wisemon]

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.

It's also important to not write self-insertion until you're certain that you know yourself.

Genki is too much of a self insertion still for me to do him proper justice.

I don't know about that. Genki seems to be a lot luckier than you.

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.

I've heard this before from somebody else, but trust me; you're not my dark side. My dark side is completely asexual. My dark side walked across a public university campus at 11:00 at night and punched every aluminum fence and street sign along the way. My dark side seriously considers kicking elderly people in the head because they take too long in the checkout line. My dark side could destroy the world.