A bit of a cop-out this week, sort of. It’s not a new story, but it still required quite a bit of writing, so I’m going to count it.

Here’s the experiment: Someone else comes to me with their story and wants some help. I don’t get to entirely re-write it. It’s their story, their ideas, they just want my input on how to tweak/fix some things that I might think are fundamentally broken. So, I have to set aside my impulse to wipe the slate clean and start from scratch and make it my story. It’s theirs, I’m just helping.

Where to start? Where to start? Oh, I know!

Recently I forced my wife to endure Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace in its entirety. She had never seen it. She was not exactly impressed, but it got us both talking about little tweaks that could potentially salvage at least some of the movie. For once I will not be trashing this movie. I will actually be quite reverential, keeping the overwhelming majority of it untouched.

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