gil's route permanently altered my brain chemistry

A time later:

oooooh….. i've lowkirkuinely been dying so this is short… but to answer: 

nsfw under the cut! 

I mean, not really. Because if I put myself fully into the story and plotline, then I probably would not be able to write "A Reader" because uhm not every Reader is the same, right?

And it's really hard for me to put myself into any story. If I ever do that, it's usually because I need to visualize the scene a bit better so I can write it in more detail. Yeah, it's more like self-reference than self-insert.

And I put myself in the position of every kind of character I'm going to include in my story because again, I need to visualize things better.

So I'd say no. Most of the time, I imagine it more like a movie script where I'm writing everything, and the characters are visualized as actors/actresses who have not been cast yet because we have not held any auditions.

I think I feel more like a director on set, telling the actors what to do, which lines to say and how to say them. In specific scenes, I also imagine what actions they should take, what gestures they should make, and all the lighting, sound effects and everything else.

So yeah, if you consider imagining myself as a director directing an entire film crew to be self-inserting, then sure, I guess I'm self-inserting. But if you mean putting myself in the Reader's perspective, then not really. Not all the time, at least. Only in specific moments when I need a better reference point.

MC is....a certain way. Some love her, some complain just cuz she doesn't do what they would (which might make her arguably LESS blank slate self inserty).

Self inserting is older than fanfiction in which some authors would write works that were obviously fiction but also self referential, the main character being like what we now call a self insert OC. The "I-novel."

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