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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 08 Jun 2022

June 8th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Blessed Mariam Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart (Droste zu Vischering) Chlodulf of Metz Jacques Berthieu, S.J. Jadwiga (Hedwig) of Poland Medard Melania the Elder Roland Allen (Episcopal Church (USA)) Thomas Ken (Church of England)
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Gay Authors News

Ask An Author 3.0 #17

Holy crap, I'm late! Well, not late late. I don't think Noah and I are ready for that kind of commitment. Maybe in a few years. Ooooooooooh, if Renee sees how late this is, I'm sure she'd throw something at me. Enough rambling; got's to get right into the interview! We have a wonderful and exciting story by an equally awesome author. @kbois I promise a bottle of your favorite stuff is on the way! • • • • • Spirit Wolves kbois 27 Chapters / 125,766 Words / Rating: Mature / Status
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 07 Jun 2022

June 7th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Antonio Maria Gianelli Colmán of Dromore St Gottschalk Landulf of Yariglia (Asti) Meriasek Paul I of Constantinople Robert of Newminster Chief Seattle (Lutheran Church) Blessed Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran La Louvière Commemoration Day of St John the Forerunner
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Words, Words and Words

Book Review: Summer Crossing by Truman Capote

In post-war New York, seventeen-year-old Grady McNeil is left alone in her parents’ expensive Fifth Avenue penthouse for the summer, while her parents holiday in Paris, before Grady’s season as a debutant. Once her parents are on their ocean liner to Europe, Grady ignores her older sister Apple and begins to run around New York as a free spirit. She has been carrying on a secret relationship with Clyde, a working-class young man from Brooklyn. Now her parents are gone she is able to turn up the
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My Daily Bread Crumbs

My Daily Bread Crumbs 06 Jun 2022

June 6th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Claudius of Besançon Ini Kopuria (Anglican Church of Melanesia, Church of England, Episcopal Church) Marcellin Champagnat Norbert June 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) D-Day Invasion Anniversary Engineer's Day in Taiwan Korean Children's Union Foundation Day in North Korea Memorial Day in
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Zuri's Blog

Review: Center of the World

“The Center of the World” is a tessellated coming-of-age youth novel, which is about the 17 years old Phil, who has a crush on Nicholas, who’s a new classmate. Phil and his twin sister Dianne experienced a very different parenting style, practiced by their mother Glass and her friend Tereza, and their mother is well-known to be quite promiscuous in their small town—a fact that doesn’t make life easier for the siblings. Phil’s father (“Number 3”) is somewhere in America and a huge variable in his
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Gay Authors News

June CSR Feature: Dolphin Delivery by Carlos Hazday

So I'm a huge sucker for ocean animal stories--even if they aren't paranormal ones. As one of GA's most popular authors, I knew if I picked one of Carlos' works, readers would love to share their thoughts and comments on the discussion day, and it's been far too long since his last CSR feature. So if you have a short reading window, pick this story to read, or reread! As a bonus, Carlos has 4 total Earth Day stories to enjoy, so you can keep reading if you get caught up in his storytelling. 
My Daily Bread Crumbs

My Daily Bread Crumbs 05 Jun 2022

June 5th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Arbor Day (New Zealand) Christian feast day: Boniface (Roman Catholic Church) Dorotheus of Tyre Genesius, Count of Clermont Blessed Meinwerk June 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Constitution Day (Denmark) Father's Day (Denmark) Indian Arrival Day (Suriname) Liberation Day (Seychelles) President'
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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up (May 29 - Jun. 4)

I was thinking of skipping the Wrap Up this weekend as I don't know if anyone is around ? I mean it is the May long weekend down in the US of A and it is the Queen's Jubilee Celebrations in the UK. BTW, do you Brits call every long weekend a bank holiday? Not sure how that works. Here in Canada we had our long weekend the week before. Where in my neck of the woods it would be better to wait another week so we don't get snow  Yes, snow. Actually up until about 10-12 years ago, I used to make
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 04 Jun 2022

June 4th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Filippo Smaldone Francis Caracciolo Optatus Petroc of Cornwall Quirinus of Sescia Saturnina June 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Birthday of C. G. E. Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland and the flag flying day of the Finnish Defence Forces (Finland)[44][45] Emancipation Day or Ind
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Writing World

Catering

Catering Ok...let me start this entire article off with three simple words when it comes to catering to your audience. K? DON’T...DO...IT!!! Please don’t. The temptation is going to be there, and you may even get a lot of praise and admiration for trying it out...but at the end of the day, the ONE thing that is going to separate you from a billion other writers online is going to be your personal voice. Your thoughts, your feelings, you sense of humor, your drama...you have a chanc
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 03 Jun 2022

June 3rd 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Roman Empire: Festival for the goddess Bellona. Christian feast day: Charles Lwanga and Companions (Roman Catholic Church), and its related observances: Martyrs' Day (Uganda) Clotilde Kevin of Glendalough Ovidius Vladimirskaya (Russian Orthodox) June 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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Writing World

Prompt Us!

We always tell you what to do. Write a story, a poem using this or that. I thought we could do it the other way around this Friday. You tell us what to write. For example, @Valkyrie Write a story beginning with a Valkyrie, an Erinys, and an Oracle meet at a spa, or @Cole Matthews Please write another sonnet. (He will probably kill me for this.) So, good-bye if you don’t hear from me anymore. If there is more than one prompt, we get to choose and the rest go into the guest prompt bank.
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 02 Jun 2022

June 2nd 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Children's Day (North Korea) Christian feast day: Ahudemmeh (Syriac Orthodox Church).[53] Alexander (martyr) Elmo Felix of Nicosia Marcellinus and Peter Martyrs of Lyon, including Blandina Pope Eugene I Pothinus June 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Civil Aviation Day (Aze
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Writing World

Grammar Guide 22 - cApiTalizaTion

This week we talk about when to capitalize and when not to (in grammar, not in money). Capitalization is when you place the first letter of the word in uppercase and the rest of the letters in lowercase. ✅DO - First word of a sentence and every first word after a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point ✅DO - Proper nouns like "Statue of Liberty" 🗽 but ❌DON'T capitalize "the" preceding the proper nouns like "the Statue of Liberty"  ✅DO - days of the week
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 01 Jun 2022

June 1st 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Children's Day (International), and its related observances: The Day of Protection of Children Rights (Armenia) Mothers' and Children's Day (Mongolia) Christian feast day: Annibale Maria di Francia Crescentinus Fortunatus of Spoleto Herculanus of Piegaro Íñigo of Oña Justin Martyr (Roman Cat
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