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    No more Secrets, right?

    By Aditus

    We know who wrote which story and won this year’s contest. Congratulations Gary L. And now? Watching the horizon thoughtfully and waiting for inspiration to strike? Or you could write a prompt story and maybe expand it…. PT Prompt #354 What if you could make objects talk? Heinrich Heine’s quill, for example. (I just saw it at a museum.) Which object would you choose, and what does it tell you?  PT Prompt #355 Five friends are playing a board game. After a while, they roll num
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Writing Unblocked

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good: I've booked myself in on a residential writing course at Arvon in mid April. It's not because I lack inspiration, I just want to get better at what I'm doing. Plus, there hasn't been much opportunity for travel these past few years and it'll be good to get away. The next story I'm working on is set in Yorkshire, not too far from Lumb Bank where the course is being held, so I can do some research at the same time. The Bad: Bloody health again. Had an expected call from the hospital
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A Stone's Throw

Bah! This Thing's Dusty...

Jesus... I need my Swiffer duster. When was the last time I wrote in this thing? June of last year? Forget the duster; I need a car-parts cleaner. Hi! How do blogs work again?  ... Okay, just went back and read every entry of this thing. Why didn't anyone tell me I was a rambling, little snot with no sense of punctuation? Heck, all I did was complain about my job.  Who am I kiddin'? I'll still complain about my job. It's so much fun to vent! But we gotta switch things up a bi
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Gay Authors News

Featured Story:

For our first new review of 2022 we need to thank @chris191070. Take a look, if you are interested give it a read and make sure to like, comment and recommend!   Spirit Wolves by Kbois Reviewer: chris191070 Status: Complete Word Count: 125,766 Kbois has successfully tackled the shifter world and brought us her variation, which introduces us to Kappa and Lambda wolves. What happens when you take six wolves, messed-up families, corrupt council members and just a few
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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up (Mar. 6 - Mar. 12)

First off, a PSA. If you live in one of the areas of the globe that has daylight savings time and you spring your clocks forward, but forgot to last night... YOU'RE LATE Well now that is out of the way, I wonder how many tens of you will be awake enough to read this week's riveting edition of the GA Weekly Wrap Up I know I'm going back to bed right after I get up  I've also thrown in a little poll to gauge everyone's feelings towards this biannual occurrence. For those that did st
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Writing World

Earn Your Moments

I can remember a time when this particular term didn't make much sense to me at all. 'Earn your moments'. What does that even mean. I wanted to have a special moment in my story, or my comic book, or my TV show, or my movie...I put it in there...and then you have people out there who are like, "I don't really feel like they earned that moment." Well WTF is that supposed to mean? It's been years and years of trial and error, obstacles and challenges, triumphs and failures...and I believe tha
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St. Patrick's Day Prompts 3/11/22

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner.  Settle in with a pint (or three) of Guinness, put on some green, and get to writing!  We could end up with some pretty interesting prompt responses, and you don’t have to be Irish to participate, since everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day.    PT Prompt #29 - creative Write a short story from the POV of a leprechaun. PT Prompt #30 – creative It’s midnight on St. Patrick’s Day, and you’re on your way home after a night of dri
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Writing World

Grammar Guide 10 - Conjunctions

Welcome to tenth Grammar Guide!  This week we are going to be talking all about FANBOYS!  Well, Myr & Cia are working together to talk about conjunctions, but FANBOYS are part of it.  We'll get to that shortly. Conjunctions join two parts of a sentence together, and there are four types of conjunctions: Coordinating Conjunctions Coordinating Conjunctions - a conjunction placed between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences of equal rank. There are 7 of them and you c
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Wry Wrambling of a Rebellious Rimbaud

The Wheel of Time: A Rambling, Digression Filled Review

The Wheel of Time: A Rambling, Digression Filled Review By: A Fan of the Books So somewhere & somewhen, I started replying in a Wheel of Time: The Series thread and realized after a few pages that it was way too long to post in a thread. Plus it was filled with colorful metaphors, talks of naughty bits, and generally senseless ramblings that I decided about that time for a new Blog Entry by the amazing Jason Rimbaud. Or is that the absent Rimbaud? Doesn’t matter. But before I
Gay Authors News

March CSR Feature: Ridley by Krista

Welcome to March's CSR! I've decided to feature a short-novel length story that's bound to create a connection for many of us to those youthful teen days which resonated with the many readers who read, commented, and reviewed Ridley by Krista. I hope you will enjoy the story if you haven't read it yet and will come back on the discussion day to help encourage Krista to write part two... if she isn't already. Hmm... maybe a question for the interview? Ridley by @Krista Length: 33,4
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Weekly Wrap Up (Feb. 27 - Mar. 5)

Well howdy ho good neighbours   So let me start off to say that all the blogs and comments from some of the Northern Hemisphere peeps stating that spring is starting to show up or it's coming... STOP  In my neck of the woods March and April I believe are our heaviest snowfall months of the years. Get a huge dump, melts off a few days later, huge dump, melts off a few days later, repeat. I sure we sell more windshield (windscreen  ) washer fluid than most places in the next two months. 
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My Only Escape

My Only Escape Soundtrack

Soundtrack   Track List Luka (Suzanne Vega) What’s The Matter Here (10,000 Maniacs) Watch Me Bleed (Tears For Fears) Broken/Head Over Heels (Tears For Fears) These Dreams (Heart) Weightlifting (Trashcan Sinatras) Reap The Wild Wind (Ultravox) Rescue (Shey Baba) Only Love (Brandon Chandler) King Of Pain (The Police) Monsters (Empathy Test) Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division) It Hurts
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Writing World

Retcons

One of the many pitfalls that a writer might face when taking a more 'organic' approach to writing a story is possibly running into a flurry of decisions that you made in the heat of the moment and may change your mind on those decisions later on. When I talk about an organic approach, I mean having a certain structure and plot in mind...but still giving yourself room to create on the spot as new ideas come to mind. I definitely write that way, and I feel like it connects me to my stories in way
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