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I'm sure it's not your liver they want to eat hun I would love to write the next line but have no idea how foie gras is vile. They force feed the geese to enlarge the liver and give it more flavour. I would NEVER eat it.

Am I cynical or has anyone else wondered whether he sent the email to himself as publicity for his book Whatever... it was an absolutely awesome response I will certainly look out for the book

Awesome pics but why do you look so sad? Not without 'a' hat though

Hun never say never... and being in love is so much more than having sex. It is possible to have someone to old and hug and cuddle without having sex you know Let it in hun. It's there if you don't close the door. As for me... I was 16

*swoon*

Good question

Okay shoot me but although I am basically vegetarian now there have been lots of times when I have eaten, and completely enjoyed liver... sometimes raw. You probably don't want to know but pig's liver liquidised and heated to blood temperature in a microwave provides temporary relief for Sanguinarian vampires with The Thirst.

You can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time. Sometimes you can't please any of the people any of the time. It's life. If you keep giving in to the people who keep wanting more from you pretty soon you won't have any more to give anyone, even yourself. It's great to have people badger you to write more because that means that you are doing something right. However at some point you have to step back and take stock of why you write in the first place. Is it to feel the pirhannas or to feed your own soul? If people are asking for more than you can give then they don't deserve to get it.

Reading your post for some reason made me really sad. It's silly I know but... my one great and overwhelming, all encompassing and soul consuming passion is not with me right now and probably never will be, not in this life at least. He leaves a hole in my soul so I think that I never will have another passion like that ever. What I have are a multitude of passionettes..... My children, my friends, my writing... most of all life itself. I try to imbue everything I do, everything I am, with passion. I am a very passionate person in every way. Personally I think that something that is not done with passion is not done well. It is sterile. I throw myself in at the deep end and mostly I either float or swim. It certainly makes life more interesting for me

You bring the whips I'll bring the chains. Erm... *cough* Whipped cream and daisy chains of course

wow... I'm crushed Okay then... seeing as you've been so honest so will I. Female Crush Obviously you are top of the list Rush... seeing as we're engaged and I don't want to make you jealous. If I were 10 years younger I would be after Cia so fast she wouln't know what hit her and I'd even fight Josh for her If I were 20 years younger I would be on a plane to Amsterdam to woo Kia Male Crushes Just about everyone else. See... told you I was a slut (*whisper* of course you are my favourite crush Sam ... and does fantasising what I might get up to with Tiger and Lugh count? Oh and of course then there's Riley and his machine... and... Ok STOP. )

WOW HAVE AN AWESOME HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Hotness is in the eye of the beholder. I have often explained that one of the reasons most if not all my characters are beautiful is becuase they are usually described through the eyes of someone who is attracted to them. Okay... Silver is one of the exceptions He is just unbelievably gorgeous, almost unnaturally so... but then there's a reason for that. I bet you're hot to someone David Probably lots more than you think..and after all that time in the gym... Phew.

Now that's an intersting concept. Nicely put.

*HUGE HUGS* to David. I know you're getting there and I hope that you arrive soon XXX

Absolutely awesome. I never knew that. I mean I kind of knew about the conservation of mass thing and have ideas about the frog, involving vapour and alternate realities But as far as the cells were concerned I had no idea and that was a totally awesome description. It's true you learn something new every day and this was mine for today

Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set And Go And Do Something Less Boring Instead

I like having criticism but hate giving it. What does that say about me... moral coward When I edit if I see that the writer makes the same mistake repeatedly I try, rather than to just change the word, explain the rule.... although I don't know all the correct terms and such so I do it my way With regard to grammar I think it's pretty obvious what criticisms are, or shoud be valuable, especially if you are making the same mistake over and over. You learn the rule the mistakes go away. It's harder if the wording is wrong because then you have to resist the temptation to just change it. If you do change it then that part of the story is yours and not the author's any more... so I try and point out that the wording doesn't sound right and make some suggestions but leave it to the writer to decide what to do. Sometimes I just say ' this doesn't scan well... read it through and see what you can do to make it better'. As for plot flaws and character developments etc I point them out where I see them but I have to admit I'm a pretty crap beta reader becasuse I get engrossed in the story and unless a flaw is glaring I am likely to miss it. I am also the world's worst Pollyanna in that I always look for the good and not the bad in the story and I pretty much always find it. As far as my own work is concerned I think the most constructive criticisms for me are. 1. pointing out grammatical errors 2. Letting me know when my sentences need leashes again. I try but they still quite often run away with me. 3. Pointing out timeline errors which is something I have a tendency to do 4. I tend to write more than one story at a time and therefore get tenses etc confused sometimes so pointing that out is very useful 5. I fall in love with my characters every time and fall prey to over flowery prose and fail to see character flaws... also I have my characters speak with my own voice sometimes. If anyone sees any of these or anything else that I am doing wrong... like getting medical stuff wrong etc then please please tell me. My favourite reviewers are the ones who give me something to think about... althogh OF COURSE I love the ones who simply tell me how great the story is becuase I think anyone who says different would be an absolute liar.

Hehe awesome. I knew you guys would come up with something off the wall I LOVE writing evi (if evil exists) l characters, especially those who are superficially sweet and lovely hiding a heart of pure evil.... hehehe.

I never thought of that. I have always been aware that a lot of the behavour and indeed physical characteristics of humans, races, genders etc... such as men tending to be long sighted (for hunting mammoth) and women tending to be short sighted (for gathering berries) and that women have better colour definition (to differentiate between good and poisonous berries) etc but I hadn't thought of this particular one... thanks James

Being essentially a magical creature I am fascinated with the idea of conservation of mass which has been discussed in many stories about magic. Eseentially it has been used to explain why it is impossible to change a man into a frog. Essentially conservation of mass means that if you change one thing into another thing it has to have the same essential mass as the first thing. HOWEVER there is a 'but' the theory of conservation of mass only applies to 'closed systems' ie where there is nowhere else for the spare molecules to go. It does not apply to 'open systems' so... does that mean that you can change a man into a frog because to me the human body is an open system because we are losing molecules to our surroundings all the time and constantly renewing ourselves. ALSO We get old because we renew ourselves constantly and every time a cell renews it changes a little for the worse. Does that mean that if we stop renewing ourselves we would wear out sooner or later (assuming we don't just gradually fly apart which in actual fact we probably would Yeah... I know.. but is there anyone out there who doesn't know I'm weird.

This was a thought I was sitting here thinking to myself, as I do, and I thought that you might like to join in the thinking about the thought. Do you think that it would be easier For a writer who is immoral to write a character who was very moral OR For a writer who is moral to write a charcater who was very immoral. I am leaning towards the thought that it is easier for a moral person to write an immoral character because is it easier for someone with morals to imagine what it would be like to not have them that for someone without morals to understand what it would be like to have them. In other words... it is easier for a good person to think bad thoughts than for a bad person to think good thoughts... kind of

No thanks required. He's hot hot hot... period. Actually the thought of a threesome with Vic and Jack should be anyone's wet dream straight or gay :

It would be sooooo much fun to be able to legally kill people... I mean zombies

Tony from JT Randall's story Secret in Salem. Vic from Draigen's Black Sheep. Jake from I Think I'm in Trouble. The evil pincess in Cia's The Price of Honour Margaret from StueyNZ A Geek Grows Up. Billy from Owl's Indiana Summer Almost any of Bugeye's characters All of Wyndham's boys.... together including Peter. Okay... so I'm a slut... never said I wasn't.