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    Emotional Rescue

    By Cole Matthews

    Ahhhh!  The plot is thickening.  The characters have developed perfectly.  You have balanced your pace so there is riveting action, informative scene setting, and a richness to your tableau.  Everything seems to be going so well, and yet, your beta reader drops a bomb on you.  "It's just falling flat."   What are you supposed to do?  Where do you turn?  How can you enrich and round out your characters?  How about a little emotional rescue?  Let's try filling in the back story of y
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 15 Jun 2022

June 15th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Arbor Day (Costa Rica) Christian feast day: Abraham of Clermont (or of St Cyriacus) Alice (or Adelaide) of Schaerbeek Augustine of Hippo (Eastern Orthodox Church) Blessed Albertina Berkenbrock Blessed Clement Vismara Edburga of Winchester Evelyn Underhill (Church of England and The Episcopal Church)
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 14 Jun 2022

June 14th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Burchard of Meissen Caomhán of Inisheer Elisha (Roman Catholic and Lutheran) Fortunatus of Naples (Roman Catholic) Blessed Francisca de Paula de Jesus (Nhá Chica) Joseph the Hymnographer (Roman Catholic: Orthodox April 3) Methodios I of Constantinople Quintian of Rodez (Rodez)
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Gay Authors News

Featured Story: CDMX by Carlos Hazday

Hey all!  Our Review Team put their heads together and came up with a great review of an author who is also our CSR author for the month as well  Make sure to enjoy both and let us know what you thought.     CDMX by Carlos Hazday Reviewer: chris191070 Status: Complete Word Count: 139,904 Three years after Carlos concluded the CJ story, he returns with this new story which starts to fill in the gaps. We follow CJ, Ozzie and Liebe as CJ takes a job at the US Embas
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Zuri's Blog

Represation, queerbating and pinkwashing

When you get what you want but not what you need Who doesn’t like a happy ending? So good representation is when everyone reacts positively to the characters' coming-outs, they don’t have to look for love for long and live happily ever after, right? Right? That might represent your dreams, but that doesn’t represent reality. What representation means is: Can I identify with it? Have I been there? In return, does that mean, we can’t have a happy ending? Sure, we can. But it has to
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My Daily Bread Crumbs

My Daily Bread Crumbs 13 Jun 2022

June 13th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Anthony of Padua, Doctor of the Church Aquilina Cetteus (Peregrinus) Felicula G. K. Chesterton (Episcopal Church (USA)) Gerard of Clairvaux Psalmodius Ragnebert (Rambert) Blessed Thomas Woodhouse Triphyllius June 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 12 Jun 2022

June 12th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Chaco Armistice Day (Paraguay) Christian feast day: 108 Martyrs of World War II Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius Blessed Hildegard Burjan Enmegahbowh (Episcopal Church) Eskil First Ecumenical Council (Lutheran) Gaspar Bertoni John of Sahagún Onuphrius Pope Leo III
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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up (Jun. 5 - Jun. 11)

I'm glancing out my window and in my neck of the woods the saying it correct: June showers bring July flowers  Seriously, we are out of the periodic snow now and after a dry first bit of the month, we are getting some rain.   Can you believe we are nearly at the summer solstice in North America? Tonight, dusk was around 10:15. I always like to be camping at this time of year, so you can have a fire going late into the night after a long day of fun! Not sure how many of our members fall in t
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 11 Jun 2022

June 11th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) American Evacuation Day (Libya) Brazilian Navy commemorative day (Brazil) Christian feast day: Barnabas the Apostle Bartholomew the Apostle (Eastern Christianity) Blessed Ignatius Maloyan (Armenian Catholic Church) Paula Frassinetti Riagail of Bangor June 11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Davis Day (Cap
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Zuri's Blog

Review: Openly straight

Always being in the spotlight, filmed by his father with his cell phone camera at every turn like a celebrity, and everybody takes him for “the gay”, but nobody just for the person he is. Taking a shower after gym class is odd, all the people are considerate of him, when they say something that could be considered offensive, and expect Rafe to borrow the cliché. To be just like the others, is, despite the openness and acceptance in Rafe’s hometown Boulder, impossible for him on these grounds.
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Words, Words and Words

Book Review: The Shielding of Mrs Forbes by Alan Bennett

Betty Forbes has a handsome and well-dressed new husband, Graham. The problem is that Graham would rather watch Footballers with Their Shirts Off, on late-night television, than go to bed with his new wife. Graham does not want anyone finding out that he “isn’t the marrying kind,” especially his wife or his mother. This all generates a plot of sex, lies and blackmail in West Yorkshire. This short story is Alan Bennett’s take on a sex comedy; unfortunately, it is low on sex and the comedy of
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Writing World

The Hero Protagonist

The Hero Protagonist When writing a story...there needs to be a main focus. Naturally, there can be many characters and many different events and situations surrounding that character, but I truly believe that it's important to keep things primarily concentrated on the thoughts and actions of a single protagonist in your narrative, in order to keep things tight and interesting without wandering off into La La Land. Your protagonist should be the first thing that you think about when you
My Daily Bread Crumbs

My Daily Bread Crumbs 10 Jun 2022

June 10th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Abolition Day (French Guiana) Army Day (Jordan) World Art Nouveau Day (Worldwide)[46] Christian feast day: Bardo Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus Guardian Angel of Portugal John of Tobolsk (Russian Orthodox Church) Landry of Paris Maurinus of Cologne Maximus of Aveia (or of Aquila) Ma
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Writing World

June and the Advent of Summer

The warm, long days of summer are just beginning.  In fact, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere occurs in just two weeks.  We celebrate Father's Day, Flag Day, and the beginning of the summer break for students.  And, it's Gay Pride Month!!  There is so much to write about. First, let's do a random word one. Prompt #55 - Use all the following words in a story.  It can be about anything, of any length, but it must include these words:  Bug, frigid, oozes, sidecar, ban
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 09 Jun 2022

June 9th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan) Autonomy Day (Åland) Christian feast day: Aidan of Lindisfarne (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Bede (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) Columba Ephrem the Syrian (Roman Catholic Church and Church of England) José de Anchieta Primus and Felician
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Thoughts And Ideas That I'm Happy To Share

Reading Through The Archives

I mentioned in a previous blog entry that I was reading my way through the archives and enjoying some of the previously written stories. I was going from present day backwards but decided to change tack and went back to day one, I'm now reading from the earliest entries working my way forward. This is turning out to be a great experience which I am really enjoying. We all know that there are a lot of really good stories currently being written, for example CDMX by @Carlos Hazday is a great
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