Dolores Esteban

In the end, nothing lasts forever. That's my truth, though sometimes it's hard to believe it.

I'm more familiar with the British English words you mentioned. But I know the American expressions also. Today, US American English is considered modern English. British English is 'classic' English. I think that German students learn a mixture of both.

Horrible as always. Hours of sheer torture. ---> , for instance. Aaaaah. AWFUL!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday!

Yes, the French Colonel and Travers! Interesting plot twist. I liked this chapter a lot.

My thanks go to J. and PD. They helped me improve my writing. Thanks again to David McLeod for editing my submission to the Spring Anthology. Thanks also to the GA team. My special thanks to Graeme for organizing the anthology.

My first language is German. I'd have a look on your sentences, if you like to. I would have to read a few paragraphs of your story, though. How to say a thing, depends on the context often. PM me, if interested. I won't be around this weekend, though. And I'm away from April 17 to May 3. Dolores

I like this story so far.

Yes, lol. You could book a flight...., lol.

Long-distance flights. The day before leaving, I always freak out and want to cancel the flight. It's all good as soon as I'm on the plane.

I was badly hurt by a person some twenty years ago. I was able to forgive, yet I did not forget for a very long time. If this person sent me a letter, I most likely would not reply. I'd accept the apology, I think. But I would not want to get in touch with this person again. My life moved on. You received a reply. This person took the time and effort to reply. Thus he shows he accepted the apology, I could imagine. But his life moved on. Consider this. Perhaps he does not want to get in touch with you again. Just give him some time to settle his thoughts. Just my thoughts. I can be mistaken.

I also find it hard to forgive AND forget. But we always should try to at least forgive and not embitter, I think. It's hard, very hard sometimes. I always try to find the good in whatever happened. However, it takes years, sometimes.

"It" by Stephen King. I mean the book. I was barely able to go to the bathroom at night. I lived in a very old house then. I had to leave my apartment. The bathroom was in the hallway. It was a real nightmare.

A Guide on how to deal with an INTJ 1. Be willing to back up your statements with facts - or at least some pretty sound reasoning. 2. Don't expect them to respect you or your viewpoints just because you say so. INTJ respect must be earned. 3. Be willing to concede when you are wrong. The average INTJ respects a fundamental truth over being "right". Withdraw your erroneous comment and admit your mistake and they will see you as a very reasonable person. Stick to erroneous comments and they will think you are an irrational idiot and treat everything you say as being questionable. 4. Try not to be repetitive. It annoys them. 5. Do not feed them a line of bull. 6. Expect debate. INTJs like to tear an idea apart to prove its worthiness. They will even argue a point they don't actually support for the sake of argument. 7. Do not mistake the strength of your conviction with the strength of your argument. INTJs do not need to believe in a position to argue it or argue it well. Therefore, it will take more than fervor to sway them. 8. Do not be surprised at sarcasm. 9. Remember that INTJs believe in workable solutions. They are extremely open-minded to possibilities, but they will quickly discard any idea that is unfeasible. INTJ open-mindedness means that they are willing to have a go at an idea by trying to pull it apart. This horrifies people who expect oohs and ahhs and reverence. The ultimate INTJ insult to an idea is to ignore it, because that means it's not even interesting enough to deconstruct. 10. This also means that they will not just accept any viewpoint that is presented to them. The bottom line is "Does it work?" - end of discussion. 11. Do not expect INTJs to actually care about how you view them. They already know that you think they are arrogant bastards with a morbid sense of humor. That's it, exactly, he he.

If it's an important part of the story, then the author should find a way to add this part. Letting go important parts of a story would change the story considerably and probably make it flat or even incomprehensible, I think. Sometimes, though, parts suddenly don't fit in anymore. The story I submitted to the anthology was part of a longer story, for instance. When rewriting this story, I found the side story was distracting from the main plot. I rewrote the story and made a whole new story of the omitted part. I have lots of parts and drafts that I hopefully can weave into future stories.

Perfect again.

OOPS!

Pardon?

I was just going to post the same thoughts. Hope is a curse.

I like Eliot Pattison (his thrillers set in Tibet) Hermann Hesse (Steppenwolf, Demian, The Glass Bead Game, Siddhartha etc.) Orlando by Virgina Woolf The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka Dan Brown J.R.R Tolkien The Dark Tower books by Stephen King Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco Hard to be a God by Arkady Strugatzky etc. etc.

I like cooking. I hate washing dishes, in particular pans and pots.

Jung Explorer Test Actualized type: INTJ (who you are) Introverted (I) 79.17% Extroverted (E) 20.83% Intuitive (N) 57.14% Sensing (S) 42.86% Thinking (T) 60.87% Feeling (F) 39.13% Judging (J) 58.06% Perceiving (P) 41.94% INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population. Preferred type: INTJ (who you prefer to be) Introverted (I) 57.69% Extroverted (E) 42.31% Intuitive (N) 57.14% Sensing (S) 42.86% Thinking (T) 68% Feeling (F) 32% Judging (J) 52.17% Perceiving (P) 47.83% INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population. Attraction type: INTJ (who you are attracted to) Introverted (I) 72% Extroverted (E) 28% Intuitive (N) 59.38% Sensing (S) 40.63% Thinking (T) 67.86% Feeling (F) 32.14% Judging (J) 66.67% Perceiving (P) 33.33% INTJ - "Mastermind". Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population.

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