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March Classic Author Excerpt: No Fairytale World by Tiff

Did you catch Monday's blog featuring No Fairytale World by Tiff? Have you read the story yet? It is just waiting for you to have a few hours to a few days if you haven't! This story has so many interpersonal ups and downs, highs and lows, and drags a reader in. I wanted to get to know more about the characters; from the beginning I ached for the main character. He was going through so many trials, but he was doing his best. Of course, life just keeps throwing wrenches at him. This section

Cia in Classic Feature

March 18, 2020

classic author March Classic Author Feature: No Fairytale World by Tiff

Are you in lock-step, trooping right through March with me? I can't believe how fast this month has gone! Well, lucky lucky you, today is the Classic Author feature, and you get to see another oldie but goodie, No FairyTale World by @Tiff. Length: 68,847 Description: False hopes, crushed dreams, and an unknown future--life really isn't a fairy tale. Andy can't hide his true feelings anymore. The only way out of his misery is to face the consequences. His life tak

Cia in Classic Feature

March 16, 2020

Weekly Wrap Up (Mar. 8 - Mar. 14)

So, what is new in your neck of the woods ? I guess we all are being impacted no matter where we are in the world by the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking at the status updates on site, many if not all of you have had some disruption of our normal day to day lives. I did a search, and ended up in Wikipedia, and according to them (not to be construed as 100% factual) that the last pandemic that rolled across our planet was the HIV AIDS one, and one we are living with, and IMHO, started to win final

wildone in Weekly Wrap Up

March 15, 2020

Prompt 824 and Prompt 825

Time flies. Next week is Saint Patrick's Day. It seems to be a bigger deal in the United States than in Ireland, but this year everything seems to be impacted by the coronavirus. Here is hoping everyone is well. To take your mind off such sad things here are some new prompts to consider. Prompt 824 - Creative Tag - List of Words Use the following words in a story - a rainbow, a corned beef sandwich, a four leaf clover, a black eye, and a leprechaun. Prompt 825 - Creative

comicfan in Prompts

March 13, 2020

Signature Feature: Comicality

Time to look at another Signature author! This month we're taking a look at @Comicality (or Comsie as he is also known). Comsie has been with the site from the start. I'll be sharing a few of Comsie's stories here, but would love to hear what your favorite story is from Comsie. Also, all stories listed are marked as complete, so if it's a story that you've already read, why not take a few minutes and go leave a review on the story main page! omicality's Shack Out Back The Shack Out B

Renee Stevens in Signature Feature

March 11, 2020

Featured Story: Nothin' Town

Shall we see what caught the Review Team's eye this month? Nothin' Town Sasha Distan Reviewer: Timothy M. Status: Complete Word Count: 5,619 Sasha Distan's American Songbook series takes place in rural USA, featuring cowboys, farm hands, rodeo enthusiasts and al the other kinds of people who populate the countryside and the small towns. There are two longer stories, which were very popular with readers, but the rest of the series are short stories showing a small slice of ru

wildone in Reviews

March 9, 2020

Author and Story Discussion Links

With the latest update to the Stories archive, you can now assign default discussion locations for both Author and Stories. This gives authors one more change for interacting with their readers. I have added FAQ entries for these two new options:

Myr

March 8, 2020

Recommending a Story Using the System

I have updated the FAQ for the Stories Archive system to show how to use the Story Recommendations. If you have questions on how to recommend a story or change or remove that recommendation, these topics should help.

Myr in Technology Archive

March 8, 2020

Weekly Wrap Up (Mar. 1 - Mar. 7)

*hiccup* Sorry, I decided to start celebrating St Patrick's Day a wee bit early this month Bet I'm the first one to wish you a Happy St.Patrick's Day as well Duty still calls and no matter how many green beers I may or may not have consumed in the past 12 hours, I'm dedicated to you all so give me a hug Hands above the waist !!!! Tell me why, I don't like Mondays...But this past Monday I enjoyed Cia's CSR Feature: On Wednesday, bloody Wednesday (sure you find a well kn

wildone in Weekly Wrap Up

March 8, 2020

Prompt 822 and Prompt 823

Welcome to March. Okay, so it is a few days in, but it is the first Friday of the month. So it is also a month for the Irish with St. Patrick's Day here in the United States, which reminds me that it is time for new prompts. Prompt 822 - Creative Tag - First Line "What on earth are you wearing?" Prompt 823 - Creative Tag - Promises Your grandmother always warned you not to make promises you couldn't keep. However, you never thought she was being serious. Until you

comicfan in Prompts

March 6, 2020

New Stories Update Mar 5, 2020

By now, you have probably noticed that we have upgraded the Stories software on the site. There are a bunch of what I would call quality of life updates and a major new feature. There is now an easy way to update your Author Profile area: For promoted author, you can now update your logo here yourself. Banners need to be 848x121 pixels. All authors will be able to add their website link and author bio. This is also where future Author Profile fields will show up, if/when

Myr in Technology Archive

March 6, 2020

Suggestions for Recommendation Reasons?

We need some suggestions. It looks like we'll probably be using 8 items. File this under coming soon.

Myr in Technology Archive

March 5, 2020

Renee's News

Time Flies.... Renee update!

Wow, it's been a while since I wrote a blog that wasn't for the various GA staff blogs. Things are still super crazy here, some good and some bad. Unfortunately, I have become pretty lax in keeping up on GA, and I'm afraid that's meant the loss of some close friendships, hopefully they can rebuilt. It sucks, but real life has been about all I've been able to handle for the last year or so. Hopefully that will change and I'll be around more, but I can't promise anything at the moment. It's b

Renee Stevens

March 5, 2020

author interview Ask an Author 2.0 #29

First Wednesday of the month, so we’re back at it. One question, five authors including me. I decided not to ignore my name on the list of authors the questioner supplied. I liked this one. Since responses are listed in author alphabetical order, I get to go first. ◊ ◊ ◊ Are there themes that can’t seem to let you go? Ideas that you never seem to tire of exploring? ◊ ◊ ◊ @Carlos Hazday The predominant theme in nearly all my work is one of the most common ones in

Carlos Hazday in Author Interviews

March 4, 2020

Colored in Gray

Coronavirus COVID-19

The coronavirus is large and in charge in the news cycles right now. Since I work in healthcare, it's sort of center-stage in my world. I'll say this now - though I work in medicine, I am not an expert in virology or epidemiology. However, I have access to both of those types of experts, and I listen very closely to what they're saying. The overall messaging is: It's likely that there will be a worldwide pandemic. It's likely that there will be a huge disruption of services, due to how many

Wayne Gray

March 3, 2020

Hiatus - Word of the Day - Mon Mar 2, 2020

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hiatus?s=t

Myr in Word of the Day

March 2, 2020

csr March CSR Feature: Elixir by Comicality

How's 2020 treating you so far? Hopefully a little better than the ups and downs faced by the characters in the story featured in this month's CSR blog... Elixir by Comicality. We all know teens have strong emotions, but this strong...? Elixir by @Comicality Length: 7,221 Description: Young Danny has suddenly found himself having strange and powerful feelings for another boy for the very first time. He's never experienced any homoerotic feelings before...but one day, out of t

Cia in CSR- Can't Stop Reading

March 2, 2020

Impious - Word of the Day - Sun Mar 1, 2020

For more information - https://www.dictionary.com/browse/impious?s=t

Myr in Word of the Day

March 1, 2020

Weekly Wrap Up (Feb. 23 - Feb. 29)

Happy Leap Year I hope everybody is going to have a great Leap Year Day! If you were born on the 29th, I have to say in all honesty, you're looking old for your age Wait!!! What??? Oh, I've been just informed I'm an idiot and Leap Year Day was yesterday Looks like I will have to wait another 4 years to get the day right! Huh, so I'm wrong again, go figure. To have a Leap Year Day fall on a Sunday I'll have to wait until Feb 28th, 2032 😢 Oh well, what is 12 yea

wildone in Weekly Wrap Up

March 1, 2020

Topics and Moderation

On GA we like to allow members to discuss a variety of subjects relating to writing, reading, gay fiction, the LGBTQIA community, and more. There are many places on the site to post topics and information, depending on where the conversation fits best. In recent months, we have discovered that topics regarding 'inclusivity' regardless of the subject being sexuality, gender, culture, etc... continually veer into either a heated debate or political commentary or themes. Due to this creating a repe

Cia in News Archive

March 1, 2020

Michael's Playroom

Falling In Love Again

It's a funny thing, marriage. We go through life together my husband and I. We work, commute, shop, watch TV, cook, eat, shower, make love, laugh, talk and all the other things we do, together each day. Often by rote. Often without a lot of thought. I care for him during those times he is in the troughs of depression. When he's ill. When he's afraid. During the nights when nightmares of the past haunt him. It's my duty as his partner to be there for him. It isn't a chore, it's a privilege

MichaelS36

February 29, 2020