I need new writers. That's the ticket.

(I should be careful what I wish for, or I could end up in a remake of "The Shining"...)

-l.

...or maybe you're just being written by Joss Whedon the whole time. That's when the ghost story, the romantic comedy, and the gritty realistic drama/thriller/sitcom are all happening at once, in a gritty romantic ghost thriller dramedy.

I love Joss Whedon's writing. But I'm glad I'm not one of his characters.

I for one need more porn, then.

Having just seen the movie Adaptation, this is a particularly timely observation.

May it never be Orson Scott Card for you or for me

See _Typewriter In The Sky_, by our old friend L.Ron Hubbard.

"God? In a dirty bathrobe?"

I think I'd like my story to be written by Anne McCaffery. Or perhaps Tanya Huff.

I can think of several epople who's lives I'd like to be written by, say, Terry Goodkind, C. S. Friedman, or C.J. Cherryh (not that I don't like reading them, you understand. I just wouldn't want to live there).

I could use a couple of new writers but I hope Tim Powers stays the heck away. I'm attached to all my body parts.

Of course, probably better him than Harlan Ellison.

MKK

I'd like to be written by Gene Roddenberry. Or Lois McMaster Bujold. Or Armistead Maupin. (Not looking for an easy ride, here.)

Tolkien, hmmm, I dunno. Depends.

Not Delany, fond as I am of him.

I suppose Spider Robinson wouldn't be so bad, though my speech would become lame and florid.

Y'know, sometimes I feel like the story of my life is stuck somewhere in the bottom of the slush pile, and isn't worth reading. At all.

But then I console myself that my Author's work is actually much too sophisticated to be accepted by the small minded editors who pander to the lowest common denominator.

On the griping hand, I wish my Author would get a life, and start writing something a bit more comprehensible.

I'd simply like to be part of the creative team responsible for hiring mine -- then maybe I'd get to see a sample script, ahead of time.