No worries whatsover! ♥ I got your other comment via email, too, so it's all good. I feel the same way, too. It's so often so close, but not quite. There were just too many missing commas. Or too many badly contructed sentences. Bad characterization (i.e., characterization that I don't personally like or can't relate to the canon character) is the first thing to get me, though.

No, I rather doubt there is. Emma Grant runs a comm called writing_sex, I believe, which is meant to be a tutorial in that area, but otherwise I think it's basically too sensitive a subject. No one in the fandom wants to believe that some writers are better at it than others or want to take advice in the first place ("it's just a hobby!" is the rallying cry), and those that really are better writers are usually too busy/too modest to suggest it.

You're an editor? :) I used to edit, too. I was an assistant copy editor for my last university's now-defunct faculty publication. It was fun, if hair-pullingly frustrating at times! My father is a journalist (sports, alas! :P) and I've done some freelance writing with articles and restaurant/book reviews, etc. I like your analogy - imaginative passion poured out into the equivalent of takeaway coffee cups - nice! Very appropriate, and I quite agree.