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Susan Here is a little story I wrote. Due to lack of space it continues in a comment below. Please note that this story is pure fiction and mustn’t be seen as a comment on gun laws in the US and the UK. Feel free to correct any mistakes and to also comment on anything including what you might consider: - poor style. - incorrect or unfortunate choice of words. - things that don’t make any sense. ----------------------------------------------- Susan was in every respect, except one, a completely normal teenager. Her aunt Vivian was a little worried Susan had it in her to become a little too nutty at some point. But it was probably just a phase. There was no cause for alarm at this stage. As long as everyone pretended everything was all right, things would most likely be so. What set her apart was her intense love for assault rifles, which she gladly shared with her peers. It was her favourite conversation topic. Her peers, that is, Lucy and Jane, always tried to steer the conversation in another direction for they were not as passionate as she was, when it came to guns. “Guns and Roses” were all right, but “One Direction” were better. Susan loved them at a distance, assault rifles, that is, the same way Lucy and Jane loved “One Direction” at a distance. She had all editions of Bazooka! from 1971 - 2011. The glossy pictures with the shining firearms were so real and almost tangible, yet it was something faraway and unattainable. Her parents were so God damn prim and proper. They wouldn’t let her have any! She was only thirteen. And in the UK where she’d had the misfortune of being born, no one, even adults, could buy real guns. She would have to wait for an eternity until she could get one. She wished she had been born and bred in the US and not in the UK. In America, they love guns, all guns. You could even drive in a tank to school if you wanted to. Her parents were school teachers. She liked her parents all right, they just didn’t really understand very much. According to them war was a terrible thing and you couldn’t very well fight a war without weapons. So weapons were evil and the only way to get rid of evil was to get rid of everything. Yes, yes she knew all that, but you could still fight a war with your fists and you didn’t cut off people’s fists did you? Just because they could potentially hurt someone.

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Hi Mikkel, I've played with the first part. Not sure how much my suggested changes are about English and how much they are irrelevant views on style:

Susan was in every respect, except one, a completely normal teenager. Her aunt Vivian was a little worried that she might become a little nutty had it in her to become a little too nutty at some point. But it was probably just a phase. There was no cause for alarm at this stage. As long as everyone pretended everything was all right, things would most likely be so.

What set Susan  her apart was an her intense love for assault rifles, a love that which she gladly shared with her friends peers. It was her favourite topic of conversation topic. Her friends peers, that is, Lucy and Jane, always tried to steer the conversation in another direction, for when it came to guns, they were not as passionate as she was, when it came to guns. “Guns and Roses” were alright all right, but “One Direction” were better. [Whether you refer to bands in the singular or the plural is a stylistic choice, not strictly a question of grammar]

Susan loved them at a distance, assault rifles, that is, The same way Lucy and Jane loved “One Direction” at a distance, Susan loved assault rifles. She had all the editions of Bazooka! from 1971 - 2011. The glossy pictures with the shining firearms were so real, almost tangible, yet they were something far away and unattainable.

Her parents were so God damn prim and proper. They wouldn’t let her have a gun any! She was only thirteen. And in the UK where she’d had the misfortune of being born, no one, even adults, could buy a real guns. She would have to wait for an eternity until she could get one. She wished that she had been born and bred in the US and not in the UK. 

In America, they love guns, all guns. If you wanted to, you could even drive in a tank to school if you wanted to.
Her parents were school teachers. She liked her parents all right, they just didn’t really understand very much. According to them, war was a terrible thing and you couldn’t very well fight a war without weapons. So weapons were evil, and the only way to get rid of evil was to get rid of them everything. Yes, yes she knew all that, but you could still fight a war with your fists, and you didn’t cut off people’s fists, did you? Just because they could p̶o̶t̶e̶n̶t̶i̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ hurt someone.
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Susan

Here is a little story I wrote. Due to lack of space it continues in a comment below. Please note that this story is pure fiction and mustn’t be seen as a comment on gun laws in the US and the UK. Feel free to correct any mistakes and to also comment on anything including what you might consider:
- poor style.
- incorrect or unfortunate awkward choice of words.
- things that don’t make any sense.
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Susan was, in every respect, except one, a completely normal teenager. Her aunt Vivian was a little worried Susan had it in her to become a little too nutty at some point. But it was probably just a phase. There was no cause for alarm at this stage. As long as everyone pretended everything was all right, things would most likely be so. What set her apart was her intense love for assault rifles, a passion which she gladly shared with her peers (she shared her interest with her friends, she didn't share the guns themselves!). It was her favourite conversation topic. Her peers, that is, Lucy and Jane, that is, always tried to steer the conversation in another direction for since they were not as passionate as she was, when it came to guns (using "for" to mean because is rather formal and old-fashioned). “Guns and Roses” were all right, but “One Direction” were better. Susan loved them at a distance, assault rifles, that is, the same way Lucy and Jane loved “One Direction” at a distance. She had all the editions of Bazooka! from 1971 - 2011. The glossy pictures with the shining firearms were so real and almost tangible, yet it was something faraway and unattainable. Her parents were so God damn goddamn/god damn prim and proper. They wouldn’t let her have any! She was only thirteen. And in the UK where she’d had the misfortune of being born, no one, even adults, could buy real guns. She would have to wait for (not wrong, just redundant) an eternity until she could get one. She wished she had been born and bred in the US and not in the UK.
In America, they love guns, all guns. You could even drive in a tank to school in a tank if you wanted to.
Her parents were school teachers. She liked her parents all right, they just didn’t really understand very much. According to them war was a terrible thing. And since you couldn’t very well fight a war without weapons. So , weapons were evil and the only way to get rid of evil was to get rid of everything. Yes, yes she knew all that, but you could still fight a war with your fists and you didn’t cut off people’s fists did you? Just because they could potentially hurt someone.
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You didn’t cut off their noses either, or their knees. You didn’t. It was nonsense. And anyway, what would the military do if they had no guns? They would look silly, like ducks with no bills. Would they take away their uniforms also? They wouldn’t look very frightening. No one would take them seriously. All the school teachers would probably make them look like her father (I don't understand this sentence. I understand her parents are teachers, but why are you talking about "all the school teachers"? Is "teachers" relevant here? If you you might want to rewrite this part). He would slop about at home in slippers and sweatpants. Imagine soldiers like that. It made her shudder. Yes, she got it, there wasn’t supposed to be any army at all. We would just all be friends and slop about in sweatpants. She had, incidentally, completely in accord with her parents beliefs, named her dog “Peace”. What they didn’t get was that in her mind she spelled it “Piece”. “Not every man knows his way around a shooting piece, but firearms are a manly art.” She would write that quote in her diary every day in her meticulous longhand, in pink letters, with the dots over the i’s shaped as hearts. Her tongue would be sticking out her mouth slightly to the side while she was being meticulous. The quote filled her with a shivering sense of awe, and she was proud of herself that her hand was completely steady, while her heart was pounding with like the blows of a heavyweight. It made her think of the steady hand of a sniper patiently zooming in on some fucktard wanker, ready to completely annihilate his stupid skull. She envisaged the bloody goof's brain pour out like diarrhea from a punctured egg. The thought almost made her heart stand still in a timeless ecstasy


MY GOODNESS! This is amazing! There are a couple slightly awkward parts, particularly your use of commas, but honestly, your style blows most native speakers' out of the water. I laughed out loud when I read "fucktard wanker" - such a teenage way of a speaking, exactly as you intended it. Really well done.


Sounds like a great start to a great story.

Just a tip: if you're writing a very long notebook, you might want to post it in several parts. You're more likely to attract corrections that way.

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Thank you very much Miriam :-)
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Wow, this is mind-blowing! Great style!

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