Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.
Orson Scott

Comment preview: You mean the Simpsons writers from 1990-1998. Since then the roster has shifted dramatically, being led through the Simpsons' worst episodes by the single worst writer they've ever had: Ian Maxtone-Graham. A typical Ian Maxtone-Graham joke: The part in the ....


Comment preview: > Is that line actually in the movie? It wouldn't surprise me. The author of the book knew literally nothing about anything and she probably looked up all her shit on Wikipedia. I tried...I *really* tried, as a writer, to open the book to a random page ....


Comment preview: Magneto suffers from pretty serious character derailment, often getting used as the big dumb 'world-threatening Monster of the week' by authors who don't understand or don't care about his more complex backstory and motivations. Under the best authors, he' ....


Comment preview: I'll try to say this as nicely as I can. I promise, I'm not *trying* to sound like an asshole, it just comes across that way. If you want to participate in indie game development, you either need to be a good artist or a decent programmer. There simply isn ....


Comment preview: OK, I'm going to try to make you feel just a wee bit better about what you do. I got my BA in History in 1994 from a university that placed immense priority on writing across all disciplines. I went back to graduate school 14 years later to get an MS in.. ....


Comment preview: Kotaku can blame whoever the fuck it wants to, I really don't care what they have to say. Still, ignoring the hand reddit had in all of this is simply irresponsible. The post was immature, offensive, and some of it was a straight up lie. She could be the w ....


Comment preview: The loss of CEW was fucking hard. I saw him with @rosepetalpistol at a place on the east side days before he passed away, his wife and beautiful daughter were there and we talked for 40 minutes about life, the show, and him. It was a huge blow to the sho ....


Comment preview: I answered on another bad teacher thread, but I suddenly remembered my worst one. Hold on, this is a ride. So I was an avid creative writer in high school. I'd been writing for an upwards of seven years by the time I was 15, so I was eager to learn more an ....