My co-author and I Apollo Night have been writing a series called The Death of Mary Sue. The characters in this story work for a fictional sue slaying organisation called the SSU - Sue Slayers United. It was pointed out to me that there are many similarities between the SSU and PPC and it was decided by you guys that we didn't have to change anything as long as I had a disclaimer, which is fair enough. But now we are going back and editing much of the original work and making improvements. To me, it's a matter of professional pride and I hate the idea that my story is very similar to someone else's and I would like to be as original as possible. I thought I would post up the link and see if there is anything you guys would like me to change. Heck, if someone wrote something that was very similar to my work I'd be a little annoyed, constructive criticism is welcome.

I have received messages from people who wanted to start writing their own sue slaying stories after reading about the SSU so I think you guys can expect to see a bit of a boom in this genre. If anyone gives us ideas, I will give credit. I will have something at the beginning of the story to say “I do not own xxx idea as it is the property of this person.”

Here are some improvements we have already made or are in the process of making:

1. The slayers no longer use neutralizers and we are trying to come up with something to replace them. This was actually and idea I pulled from Men in Black (not you guys) but it still bugs me as I don’t want my stuff to be too similar to yours
2. You’ll be happy to know that we now have a beta reader. Given one of us has dyslexia and the other has a learning disability that leaves her unable to spell a beta reader really should have been our first priority. We now have one.

Any other suggestions are welcome.


This is the link to the first story, but there are four in total

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4751175/1/TheDeathofMarysue