Your Protagonist Is Such A Self Insert

“Your protagonist is such a self insert—”

Bold of you to assume that every single oc I’ve ever made is not, in fact, a facet of my own identity

me, thinking about my dumb ocs:

Dear Mr. Gaiman- Any advice for a teenage writer who wants to write adult characters? Or just about things I have no experience with in general?

Observe Adults. Know that each and every one of them is faking it. At no point was any adult actually given an instruction manual on how to do adulthood. Inside each of them is someone exactly like you.

Now you can write them.

How do you write creepy stories

can i be real for a second? can i be sincere? can i be fucking earnest for one moment? nothing is more important than the human proclivity for storytelling.

writing tip #2598:

if you've never explicitly said your character is a human then i'm gonna keep on picturing them as an iguana and there's nothing you can do about it