meme from rodlox

"Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know."

Larry Gelbart dead at 81

My fellow alt.tv.mash poster Larry Gelbart, perhaps best known for the Developed for Television by credit in that series' titles, has passed away from cancer diagnosed in June. I previously LJed about him here. We'll miss him.