It's funny that you would mention these, because I re-read them last year, and oooh boy there's some weak storytelling going on. I think Timothy Zahn is a competent writer, but everything seemed so constrained by the film characterizations, that he never really gave the characters a chance to evolve and expand. The…

Just as I suspected!

It's interesting that Trask:

Looks like a Decepticon.

I knew that one white-ish eye reminded me of someone.

A man in a white lab coat stood in his kitchen. He sipped on the glass of orange juice and leaned back on the counter. He momentarily turned his attention to a window facing the street. Outside a woman ran screaming down the sidewalk with her baby in her arms. Seconds behind her, two giant slug-like monsters in tacky…

Every year at this time, the pilgrims come from all over the galaxy to pray to the miraculous Cruciform that was discovered in the side of Mount Gresht. But it wasn't always this way. Or so I'm told.

Hehe "candid feedback". That's one way of putting the community response.

I don't understand why you're so impassioned by this. You realize that these are just video game machines, right? Chill, man.

I remember reading this once. It's terrific. Thanks for reminding me of it.

In the future, all clothes will be made with the same honeycomb pattern on the TDK Joker's shirt. He must have shared the name of his tailor.

Brown superheros created and written by white writers...

Every one of us has their demons. Their skeletons in the closet, so to speak. But what if I told you that those demons were real? What if I told you that that one time you cheated on a test, or that time when you were a kid and snuck into the movie theater to catch an R-rated flick—those little dishonesties—were…

All of them.

I'm so glad this guy didn't start yapping away. It would seem...weird. There's just something great about the silent protagonist.

Revised version with typos and grammatical errors removed here: http://www.writerscafe.org/writing/Butter…

"Fish ain't meant to fly. It's unnatural!"

It was a balmy day in early Summer. Shanna stood amongst the bustling crowd of parade-goers. She felt the fishbowl sloshing around under her arm as she anxiously shuffled her feet on the spot. The whirr-pop of firecrackers entered the confetti-filled air, mixing with the cheers and screams of children and adults alike.

Anything that is reviewed at a rating that is below 50% of the reviewer's given rating scale. Which leads to huge variances, considering the fact that some reviewers use 3 stars, some use 5 stars, and some even use 10 stars. RT's Fresh/Rotten scale should only be used as a general guide, I think. It's a pretty flawed…