Talk:Author Authority/@comment-24053170-20180215210802/@comment-29564364-20180509213627

A writer can't write themselves out of existence because they don't have control over reality like they do over their work of fiction. The closest thing to that would be suicide, which would end the story's progression until someone else picks up the pen, thus becoming the new writer. If the original writer had an avatar inside their story (a.k.a. a user of Author Authority), that avatar would still exist, but would now represent the new writer instead. And naturally, from their perspective, characters inside the story wouldn't notice a thing, except those who break the fourth wall if the new writer feels like going meta.