How would you rate yourself basing on your looks and personality. (on scale of 1-10)?

I'll admit, the majority of my characters are white, like me. I don't do it on purpose, it's just when I start thinking of my characters, right off the bat, they have a physical look to them. And if I changed it, then it wouldn't be the same character anymore.

And most the time, it's just a white person that I think of, because I'm white, and I've been around white people most my life, what with being home schooled and all. I can right now think of two main characters I've ever had who were of a different ethnicity/skin color. One was mixed between black and white, and another female character who was Native American.

(She also happened to be the most terrible Mary-sue character I've ever written about, and I try not to think about her too often...) And I just want to say that having all characters who wear matching clothes and are blonde-haired and blue eyed does not automatically make them Mary-Sues. It's called rich private schools. I almost went to one this year.

Scary! Just because people dress in a certain style or look and act a certain way, it doesn't make them impractical or unrealistic. Some people seem really perfect and seem like they're loved by everyone, when in all reality, they're dying on the inside, or really terrible things are happening at home.

Having blonde hair and blue eyes and being in a clique doesn't equal the Mary-Sue meter exploding. You can have a book filled with people of every ethnicity you can imagine, and have people who dress or look like the J.V. Jocks, preps, Asian nerds, cool Asians, varsity jocks, unfriendly black hotties, girls who eat their feelings, girls who don't eat anything, desperate wanna-bes, burn-outs, sexually active band-geeks, the greatest people you will ever meet, and the worst. (*ahem http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsPvRtQIK... And every single one of them could be a Mary-Sue.

Edit: Oops, forgot the BQ! I might give myself a... seven? I don't know, my opinion of my own characters might be biased.

You have to take into consideration the time, place, setting, situation, theme, etc. In some of my stories, I might give a one or two, and in others a nine or ten. It varies.

Maybe a five. There is a different 'humanoid' race in my book but they're all white/pale as they live underground and have done for millions of years. So, it's them and a couple of humans (*counts* four main human characters, several major secondary...).

Darn, nearly all my characters are white people, it's just how I picture them D: /feels like a racist I don't give them all the same outfit and personality, though. They have wildly different personalities and I try to make all of them look as 'un-generic' as possible.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.