Not much of a blog post today – got caught up staying home with a sick little girl (and trying to work from home as well, including after hour server migration stuff). Not very conducive to writing or blogging. Or anything else, really – unless you count hopping around on your hands and knees pretending to be Bolt while your daughter is either: 1) Penny 2) Dr. Calico 3) The Last Unicorn. (yeah, I didn’t get it either – but it makes her happy, so whatever) Anyway, I was thinking at some point today about Mary Sues. (or Gary Stu, whichever you prefer).  I seem to remember writing some awful piece of tripe when I was in about 6th grade. I was unicorn crazy then (and gee, I’m beginning to see a bit of a pattern with ms Lucy, go figure), and I wanted to write a story about one.… Read more