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writersliving
03-06-2005, 07:04 PM
:Sun:
hi I'm writing a short story on single women. It about two women living the single life. but one of the the characters I writing is me totaly. The things I say the way I feel about when I was single. It life I basicly writing about my own life in the story. with some made up friend. have anyone else kind of put their self in the story. I hope it dosen't seem to much life like me. but that's me totaly I noticed as I started writing.

rich
03-07-2005, 12:16 AM
Yes.

Jamesaritchie
03-07-2005, 12:26 AM
:Sun:
hi I'm writing a short story on single women. It about two women living the single life. but one of the the characters I writing is me totaly. The things I say the way I feel about when I was single. It life I basicly writing about my own life in the story. with some made up friend. have anyone else kind of put their self in the story. I hope it dosen't seem to much life like me. but that's me totaly I noticed as I started writing.

Sure. it's done all the time. Nothing wrong with it at all. On occasion, the protagonist in one of my stroies is me. Literally. On even rarer occasions, I don't even change my name.

Galoot
03-07-2005, 10:30 AM
I do it all the time. "Me" makes a great antagonist.