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[liveyourstory]

It's interesting how people change. I used to be able to watch really gory horror movies and not be squicked out in the slightest, I could watch the creepy ones without being too freaked out, I could watch sad movies without being particularly moved. You might get a sad face out of me or five minutes of "aw man, that was upsetting", but I would be

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[chrisgray23]

Maybe not on the same line, but I got to see RoboCop at my cinema. When I was a kid I felt unsatisfied with it. As a kid I expected a sci-fi shoot em up, and indeed that is what RoboCop is. However, when I saw it recently, I saw why it's rated 18. The violence is indeed violent and bloody.

However it has various layers to it. When some of it works like a superhero film, with RoboCop sorting out mini problems, before finding a main villain to battle, the rest of it works as a question of our future and the ideas of poor and rich, as well as the idea of the human condition being flawed, but never oppressed.

As for skills in creative writing. Danielle Steel, Stephanie Meyer...even JK Rowling has her faults, though not as much as the previous two. Yet they all sell well. There's no set in stone way of writing...though it is nice to see quality.

Great writing can be ignored. And as my friend once said, 'Pride and Prejudice is a 120 word story spread over 350pages.' When you crack the code of the world's love of literature, you'll no doubt be too late to direct everyone to turn their Meyers over for Joyce.