Self-Insert and Wish Fulfillment · 2:53pm May 31st, 2015
I don't have much qualm for SI stories, nor do I think Self-Insert story is necessarily bad. Oh yes, most of them are, and that's the problem. Because when people write an SI story, they don't write a goddamn SI story. No, instead they wrote a fucking Wish Fulfillment story.
SI story is a story about you being in some Fiction World. Not some fucking 'Badass' and angsty Mary/Gary Stu. It's a fucking Self-Insert, boy-o. Read the fucking name. If you're a fucking badass that could kill a giant wolf with some an axe, or if you're suddenly a master of romance and could get girls sucking your dick, and offering their virgin blood, then you wouldn't be sitting in front of the computer, writing some fiction about you fucking a pony and actually get a fucking job.
Of course, no offense for those who are actually what I mentioned above.
If you're not, then let me tell you something; That means you're either a fucking liar to yourself, or you're some fucking ingrate motherfucker who couldn't understand nor read english. Especially the word, "Self-Insert".
Sure, SI story is a hard thing to write. You are, after all, literally writing yourself to a paper, and posted it to the Internet for all to see. You're practically opening yourself up, pouring your own reaction of things, your own emotions, personality, physicality, and mentallity. Heck, people reading the story would probably know you better than your family and friends would. That's like the very definition of over-sharing. And dare I say, over-Honesty. It's like writing a diary of your life, of your inner and dark consciousness, and then publishing it as a book.
But hey, that's the beauty in it, right?
Actually the one of the deepest things a writer of a Self Insert can do is kill themselves off somewhere in the story due to them not having the tools required to survive the situation they got themselves into.