I'm working on a project that doesn't require my characters to be self-aware, but there is small theme regarding fiction coming to life. I'm not talking about characters so aware they're out of something like Stranger Than Fiction, but more along the lines of the Scream movies. Those are parodies, but the characters know the "rules" of what it's like to survive a horror film and they watch those rules play out in their own version.
Have you guys ever tried writing self-aware characters?
Have you guys ever tried writing self-aware characters?