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The phrase "authorial shame" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the feeling of embarrassment or regret that an author may experience regarding their own work or writing.
Example: "After rereading his first novel, he was overwhelmed by a sense of authorial shame, realizing how much he had grown as a writer since then."
Alternatives: "writer's remorse" or "creative embarrassment".
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They linger only as fig leaves of authorial shame.
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"Shame, shame.
— and no small measure of authorial vanity.
According to Poovey and Mellor, Shelley did not want to promote her own authorial persona and felt deeply inadequate as a writer, and "this shame contributed to the generation of her fictional images of abnormality, perversion, and destruction".
It's a particular shame, since in his films about Robert McNamara or Donald Rumsfeld, Morris beautifully withholds authorial judgment in order to allow the subjects to damn themselves.
"SHAME! Shame!
Marketing phenomenon, authorial manifestation.
Is it authorial playfulness?
"Fahrenheit 451 as authorial circle jerk?
No authorial interjections or stern warnings.
"Shame, shame," they chanted.
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