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Wow, lots of cool updates! Maybe you really did stop blogging for too long if you have this much to say Seriously though, the cookies story sounded nice, especially the part with the silly but cute hug... and it read like it was just like that, silly but cute and being able to eat great cookies is always good ::nods cognizantly:: And too bad things went bad with Annemarie again, sorry to hear it... but I do think you seem to do things just rightly everytime, and I know you'll get to her sometime. Especially since you already said you thought what you said might have helped some - she'll understand soon, I think. I don't know much about the picture, but it sounds like it's just right I guess someone else around here will know more about that, right? Happy New Year to you too! ::hugs:: Vincent

Workhorse - My Brightest Diamond ("Bring me the Workhorse") and getting quite into it too

Hmm hmm ehm... wow, that's a tough question actually I would go with my fingers (does that work? Else just say my hands), because I can type with them and ehm, maybe someday soon play the piano

Wow Graeme, I really agree and some of those words are awesome (the others are just great )... I like smiggle and smalf best I think my new one would fit here Bliggle -- a blushful giggle EDIT: Hugneed -- the need to hug/be hugged (it can get pretty bad, hehe)

Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song) - Fiona Apple (Extraordinary Machine)

Wrong Impression - Natalie Imbruglia (White Lilies Island)

Yay I finally got one! *~*~*~*~* Noc

Minitiature Disasters - KT Tunstall (Eye to the Telescope)

Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song) or Used to Love Him - Fiona Apple (Extraordinary Machine)

Lucky - My Brightest Diamond (Stereogum Presents... OK X: A Tribute to OK Computer)

Ehm... let's see what this is... O Valencia! - The Decemberists (The Crane Wife)

Ordinary Day - Vanessa Carlton (Be Not Nobody)

Hehe yeah, I guess so

Nope, unfamiliar. ::turns on his playlist on random:: Diamond Day - Vashti Bunyan EDIT: and now Riding Horses - My Brightest Diamond EDIT: and now, even more beautiful: Magic Rabbit - My Brightest Diamond So pretty... "All the rabbits died, for supper tonight... all the rabbits died, in the spotlight." Wow, I just realized... I think My Brightest Diamond makes the most powerful music (not necessarily the prettiest or best, but the most powerful, imo) I know. Maybe.

I love that one! Yay, finally one I know! I'm not listening to anything at the moment

Just to strengthen the arguments used before me: I haven't a mobile phone (though I used to) to be fair, while I don't have a MySpace profile, I have the equivalent that is most popular in the Netherlands, a Hyves profile, and I AM a computer guy, though I don't play Halo. I also think the answer is yes, though. I know I certainly relate to your stories, always have, Comsie, and almost any other teen story I read that wasn't written by a teen. Usually moreso than any that were written by a teen, actually! I agree that the changes are in the details and aren't completely universal. Even if they were, I'd probably still be more interested in a story about an arcade than one about a love sprouting from a Halo match (though... ((giggle))... one of my stories has something similar to that)! So, the changes aren't usually in the important things enough to really throw a 'modern teen' reader out of the storyline, although there are a few that are (that suggested gay character ridiculing, maybe? That could also be a cultural thing though, I wouldn't know). But even so, I think an author should trust their audience to accept the possible 'flaws' that come from this time difference. In the end, it's the world from the author's mind that matters for the story, not the world the readers are used to. They'll still relate. This is how I usually talk to myself when I tell myself I don't know a damn about the English schooling system and how it differs from the Dutch one... I usually just kind of create my own version of a schooling system and convince myself the reader will be okay with that

Yet more unfamiliar songs... blegh Rinse - Vanessa Carlton

I don't know those either I do like "I Will Survive" by Melanie Safka though Currently, for me: Smoke by Natalie Imbruglia

I see what you mean now, and I believe you you're right, I guess it really isn't possible after all. I see how that is, but I'm afraid I may use this wrongly still, because it feels so natural to me to say "My brother Max" when he's my only brother. I mean, I don't think I can trust myself to remember to use the commas in "My brother, Max, performed such and such an action." Actually, I'm still in doubt even. It's so natural to me to not have to use these commas here that it's difficult for me to sink in. Every time I think I got it right and I understood it now, I start seeing the other option again, namely that you can even say "My brother Max performed such and such an action" (without the commas) if you have just one brother... weird. I'm going to be thinking about this a lot in the coming days, I'm sure By the way Kevin, I also like extensive usage of commas I don't even think anything of a sentence like "Donald, in my opinion, Patrick, who is an honourable man, should be trusted", I actually like it... still, if I wrote it, I'd be worried that the readers wouldn't like it and probably wouldn't feel comfortable with leaving it like that, unfortunately

Hey Kevin, Thank you I'm glad you thought these points were valid. And don't worry about the ex, it's cool, I'm not having issues with it anymore, really. It sounds weird, but I felt better than ever the past week or two (that has nothing to do with him (or any other reason I can pinpoint whatsoever, really), but still, it shows I'm no longer really bothered by it. You have a great day too! Vincent

I think an author doesn't need to read to be able to write and write well. I'm sure it helps to inspire and all that, but I don't believe it's a necessity. Certainly not if you're referring to reading stories, anyway. I do think exposal to language is helpful.

The first example doesn't need to have other brothers though! I have only one brother, Max. Yet I can say, "My brother Max took the train to Paris", and be grammatically correct... can't I? I'm quite sure I can.

I don't know that one Saltbreakers - Laura Veirs ^-- Anyone know this one? It's fun

I like 'color', because it's, as far as I remember, the American spelling, and I think it looks nicer, and more like it actually represents a color (orange, mostly? Colour is more like... purple :S I like purple better than orange, but color better than colour :S)... and it looks more familiar to me because I use this one usually.

I can agree with all that