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Comment on The Last Englishman: My First Novel – Available now… by simontall

simontall — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:40:45 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on The Last Englishman: My First Novel – Available now… by Jane Steen

Jane Steen — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:26:47 +0000

I will!

Comment on The Last Englishman: My First Novel – Available now… by simontall

simontall — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:33:09 +0000

Thanks! Leave a review if you like it…

Comment on The Last Englishman: My First Novel – Available now… by Jane Steen

Jane Steen — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 14:27:34 +0000

Bought.

Comment on Voyeurism, Self-Awareness and Sex beyond the Keyhole by Ciara Ballintyne

Ciara Ballintyne — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 05:10:03 +0000

People change – but not much, and not fast. Relationships fail because partners expect each other to change. Job relationships fail because corporations hire someone whose personality just doesn’t fit with the other employees. Our personality isn’t fixed in our DNA, but it’s a function of our experiences.

I’m not terribly aware of the world around me, but I think I am very self-aware. I know who I am, including the bits that sometimes aren’t very nice and that rub people the wrong way. That’s OK, I can accept that, warts and all.

Comment on Snow Days: When Editing is actually Writing… by rachelleayala

rachelleayala — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:42:05 +0000

LOL, me too. I’m not OCD enough to sit there and count the words I changed as daily wordcount. Guess I’m not like other writers who record the number of words written every day because some days I remove more words than I write. Happy writing!

Comment on Snow Days: When Editing is actually Writing… by simontall

simontall — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 15:09:23 +0000

Oh yes I think that counts. I also get confused by the idea of first draft/second draft etc. I seem to be changing it constantly so never know where one draft finishes and the next begins. Only when I leave it to stew for a while and return to it does it perhaps seem like the next draft…

Comment on Snow Days: When Editing is actually Writing… by rachelleayala

rachelleayala — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:59:47 +0000

Good way of thinking about it. I always wondered about people who say they write so many words a day, whether they’re talking about new words, revisioned words, or editing/polishing words. We can’t all be in first draft mode all the time where the word count piles up. For me, sometimes it goes the opposite way, the word count decreases after a hard day’s work. That counts too,doesn’t it?

Comment on Isn’t it time America ditched the guns? by Michelle Louring

Michelle Louring — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:46:54 +0000

It is also much easier to stop a psychopath with a knife, than a psychopath with a rifle, if he decides to go crazy in a school. Casualties would definitely be fewer!

Comment on Isn’t it time America ditched the guns? by Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 04:46:00 +0000

Simon, I grew up with firearms in the home. They were hunting rifles that were used to procure food for our family. The rifles were stored properly in a locked cabinet and as a child I only saw and handled them under supervision from one of my parents. Many people in America still hunt as a means to put meat on their tables. There are many areas in the US that are very rural and the cost of beef is much more than the cost of venison. I do support these people’s right to hunt. I do not conceal carry a firearm personally, but I do not have a problem with those that choose to. I have lived through city riots where having a firearm meant the difference between safety and having your home or business looted and burned to the ground. There were no police available during these times and it was many days before the national guard was called in to help bring about the peace. During this time, there were many shop owners that used automatic weapons to defend their stores from the looters. Those that had weapons did not lose their shops, those that did not have weapons lost a great deal. I am filled with sorrow about what happened to those poor children in Connecticut and I do believe that new policies need to be found to help prevent this from happening again, but I do not believe that more gun control is the answer. When this boy went to buy a gun in order to do murder, the present day laws prevented him from obtaining a weapon on two separate occasions. Connecticut has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. The laws worked as intended. In the end, he stole the guns from his parent. Had his mother locked up her weapons as most gun owners do, this tragedy would have been prevented. Mental illness is as much to blame for this horrible incident as anything else. I offer this rebuttal to you respectfully. I understand how you might have a different viewpoint being an Englishman and living in a different culture than we do here in America.