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    These are no New Year nor Resolution Prompts

    By Aditus

    From this year on you will be pestered er.... prompted by the We want to thank @Cole Matthews for being a member of the Prompt Team since October 2021 and inspiring us with around 80 prompt ideas. Thank you Cole.     #PT261 Someone wakes up all alone in the back and beyond, with no cell phone reception, after falling asleep on the bus or train. What happens now?   #PT 262 Write an online love story. Have the story consist entirely of alter
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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up (Apr. 24 - Apr. 30)

Well like the Backstreet Boys sung, It's Gonna be May  Seriously, listen to this song and tell me I'm wrong     In other news, I have had my spiel with Covid  Not an enjoyable week so far, but getting better. I really do feel sorry for everyone that has loss loved ones, had Covid themselves, or had it multiple times. Then some of you have fallen into the long haul group. I just hope that everyone continues to get through this and move on to bigger and better things   Loo
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 30 Apr 2022

April 30th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armed Forces Day (Georgia) Birthday of the King Carl XVI Gustaf, one of the official general flag flying days of Sweden. Camarón Day (French Foreign Legion) Children's Day (Mexico) Christian feast day: Adjutor Aimo Amator, Peter and Louis Donatus of Evorea Eutropius of Saintes Marie Guyart (Anglican C
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Writing World

Subverting Expectations

Subverting Expectations You ever see one of those race car lengths on a full track, with everybody is trying to get ahead of their other opponents? And there's more to it all than just slamming your foot on the gas pedal and going faster than everybody else. There's a strategy involved. A little gas here, a little brake there, how you take certain turns, etc. So...you've got somebody ahead of you, and you're trying to find your way around them so you can move up from fourth to third place. A
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 29 Apr 2022

April 29th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Catherine of Siena (Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican Church) Endelienta Hugh of Cluny Robert of Molesme Torpes of Pisa April 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare (United Nations) International Dance Day (UNESCO) Shōwa Day, traditi
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Words, Words and Words

Book Review: True Confessions of Margaret Hilda Roberts Aged 14¼ by Sue Townsend

Sue Townsend rightly has the reputation as one of our finest comic novelists. Adrian Mole is one of the great comic characters and Sue Townsend did the most refreshing of things, she allowed him to age naturally. What we often forget is was what a good satirist she was too. This book steals the format from her other creation, Adrian Mole. This is the secret diary of Margaret Hilda Roberts, aged 14¼, living above her father’s grocer's shop in Grantham. This is Margaret Thatcher as a girl, lo
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Writing World

National Poetry Month Wrap-Up 4/27/22

There are only three more days left in April, although around here it feels more like December.  The buds on the trees were sporting a nice winter coat of snow today instead of leaves and pretty spring flowers.  I'm wondering if this will be one of the rare times we get a May show shower   The end of April also means the end of National Poetry Month.  There has been a nice selection of poetry posted this month, and @Aditus and @Parker Owens took on the challenge of writing 30 poems in the month.
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 28 Apr 2022

April 28th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Aphrodisius and companions Gianna Beretta Molla Kirill of Turov (Orthodox, added to Roman Martyrology in 1969) Louis de Montfort Pamphilus of Sulmona Peter Chanel Vitalis and Valeria of Milan April 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Mujahideen Victory Day (Afghanistan)
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Writing World

Grammar Guide 17 - Phrases

Welcome to our 17th Grammar Guide!  This week we continue our coverage on sentences.  The topic for today is Phrases.  A phrase is a group of words that adds detail to a sentence but does not have its own subject or verb.  Phrases are parts of sentences, but cannot stand on their own. There are five types of phrases: Adjective Phrases - Phrases that give more detail about a noun, and they are usually found right after the word or words they modify. A few guys
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 27 Apr 2022

April 27th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast days: Anthimus of Nicomedia Assicus Floribert of Liège John of Constantinople Liberalis of Treviso Pollio Virgin of Montserrat Zita Origen Adamantius[21] April 27 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Russian Parliamentarism (Russia) Day of
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 26 Apr 2022

April 26th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Chernobyl disaster related observances: Day of Remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy (Belarus) Memorial Day of Radiation Accidents and Catastrophes (Russia) Christian feast day: Aldobrandesca (or Alda) Franca Visalta Lucidius of Verona Our Lady of Good Counsel Pope Anacletus and Marcellinus
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Thoughts And Ideas That I'm Happy To Share

Why I joined GA and remain

When I joined GA it was as a result of an upsetting event in my own life and GA helped me to process that to a degree, I'm not going to go into any detail at this time but I may do so at some point in the future. I originally joined to read some of the stories that had and were being written at the time and I enjoyed doing just that. Soon I had a thought pop into my head which I decided to post as short story. I wasn't brilliant or researched but very spontaneous and received mixed but main
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 25 Apr 2022

April 25th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Christian feast day: Giovanni Battista Piamarta Major Rogation (Western Christianity) Mark the Evangelist Maughold Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur Philo and Agathopodes Anianus of Alexandria April 25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) World Malaria Day[26]   Observances Anz
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Gay Authors News

April CSR Discussion Day: Corporate Galactic by astone2292

April showers bring... well, snow in my neck of the woods! It seems like everywhere I looked online people were talking about strange weather. Life on Earth has been rough the last few years, but could it be worse? That's explored in astone2292's story based on our prompt game, Corporate Galactic. Did you enjoy these snapshots in future time? Share your thoughts below, and enjoy my interview with him too! Do you eat your fruits and vegetables? Do wine and cheddar broccoli soup count?
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My Daily Bread Crumbs 24 Apr 2022

April 24th 2022 - Holidays and Observances   (click on the day for details) Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia, France)[20] Christian feast day: Benedict Menni Dermot of Armagh Dyfnan of Anglesey Ecgberht of Ripon Fidelis of Sigmaringen Gregory of Elvira Ivo of Ramsey Johann Walter (Lutheran) Mary of Clopas Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
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Zuri's Blog

Part 2

Hero’s journey In the last part, we talked about it seeming to be difficult to tell origin stories that inweave new concepts. Apparently, there’s something like laws of nature that apply to writing. Let’s have a look at the hero’s journey. Most of you should be familiar with this. In its beginning, the hero (or heroine) lives in their own world until something happens with an impact that changes the hero’s worldview and sets everything into motion—something that makes the hero and their men
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Words, Words and Words

Book Review: The Dressmaker by Beryl Bainbridge

Beryl Bainbridge, at her best, always had a dark view of life. It wasn’t just the unhappiness of life she wrote about so well but the pain and regret under that unhappiness. This novel is a fine example of the darkness she found in ordinary people’s lives. It is set in Liverpool in 1945. The war is finally turning and the city is awash with American GIs, but this is still the world of ration books, shortages and make do and mend. In this cold and austere world, naïve and immature Rita lives
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