Yeah I heard that those are some kind of Mary Sues. But in the text for my dutch exams the author of the article said that back in the days it was not done to write aspects of yourself in a novel. But he also said that nowadays people mark the use of bits of yourself as a literature aspect.

I always try to create depth in my stories. There is a story I write with another girl where I use a lot of symbolics like the colour red. The title is: The Heir of the Red. And since the maincharacter has hemofolia (or something; blooddissease) the red of the title could mean his blood or the communistic believes. He discovers that his family originally came from Russia; but is he heir of the Tsaar (since Alexeij also had the blooddissease) or is he the heir of the communistic leader Lenin...