penknife: We can has policies. - New draft LJ policy document went up this morning, with a note that it's just a draft, and that they want feedback on the policies from users. -
mecurtin: Read for meeeeeee & Sturgeon's Law on TeeVeeeeeee - With TV, though, most writers seem to end up resenting the very idea of doing a good job -- yes, Aaron Sorkin, I'm looking at you. I think that may be part of why science fiction, the literature of ideas, gets transformed into sci-fi, which appears to be -
vescoiya: Liver for breakfast then? - So The X-Files does what a lot of science fiction shows do: it sets up mutants as monster-of-the-week type enemies. Most of the time, although it's a bit distasteful, I can stomach that: usually the mutants as portrayed are so strongly and clearly coded a -
How can you tell when a story is good? How do you know when a story is finished (ie. the best you can make it)? How do you edit effectively? How can you pick a good editing choice from a bad one? Can you learn "talent"?