Originality
Jen, Assistant Editor

    Perhaps it's just me, but every time I sit my lazy butt down to watch TV and kill brain cells with some radioactive waves, I click through channels and see the same damn show on every station. The same damn show, just a different subject and a different celebrity host. We've got the next top chef, next top model, next top hairdresser, next fashion designer who will make expensive clothes that you can't afford and even if you could they wouldn't fit you because they're made to fit a size negative 2.
     I also see the same stories and plots recycled in fanfiction. It seems that in every pirates story I read, there is an attractive girl who is skinny and yet abnormally skilled with swords and is deeply in love with Jack, and by the end of the story Jack has saved her life and fallen in love with her. The end. (And yes, we, meaning myself and you, are guilty of writing this. I admit it.) For once I would like to read something shiny and new. Perhaps Will falls in love with Jack and they get frisky in the rigging? Now that would be entertaining.
     My point is this: If you're going to write something, be it an old fanfiction or a script for a movie, make it something new and exciting instead of the same old pair of socks in your stocking on Christmas morning.