It's time for the last installment of this year's anthology. Although there may be a surprise next week, so stay tuned! Keep going with all the comments, reviews, and reactions. Our authors love hearing from readers! We'll also be announcing the next site event soon, so keep an eye on the Thursday blog for more information!
Don't forget to check out Myr's new chapter!
How to write a blog? I've no idea, since this is my first try. I've looked at a few blogs written by other GA members, and I don't think I could come up with anything remotely resembling the interesting, funny or cool entries of other people.
In any case I don't have much to say, and I certainly don't expect anyone to pay a lot of attention. Except my GA friends who're kind, supportive and wonderful. You know who you are.
My main reason for creating a blog and making an entry is to compi
My heart was broken yesterday.
Does that sound a tad cliche?
Perhaps it is, but not to me,
For now my love will never be.
But in the silence of the night,
I contemplate my common plight,
And now, quite plainly, I can see,
That in the breaking, I am free.
Yesterday, I learned something about a friend of mine. She is in love with someone; a person whom I do not know, but who has been in her life for some time. There was
I’m still riding the high wave of mania. That’s okay if one can channel the extra energy into some purposeful task. I finished the first draft of Chapter 1 of the new book yesterday morning. I’ll need a week or so to give it a number good reads looking for those errors that hide from your eyes. Having had a number of different keyboarding jobs in the past (word processing and typesetting), it’s not surprising that their are always a number of works that come out rong. Primarily this will be sort
Just like DVD commentaries, you guys get to hear me talk about the characters and what went into their development.
Hunter was the 2nd Character I created for this story (The first character is going to show up in chapter 3).
He's my ideal of what the future of LGBT movement will evolve into; he is a cross between Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Leonardo Da Vinci.
Imagine if one day, a gay teenager invents a massively popular App, then he uses his success and keeps inventing until h
I went to the shrink last week. I wanted to discuss the problems I was having with getting and staying asleep. It seems the VA hospital in Seattle came up an instruction booklet for older adults to acquire proper sleep habits. Starting off with going to be at the same time every night then getting up at the same time the following morning.
Since my son turns the TV off at 1:30 a.m., that is my scheduled bedtime; 9:30 is the time I’m supposed to get up. The TV is distracting so it delays the
I just wanted to share this with you all. My mom subscribes for a weekly magazine I generally steal away for a couple of hours it to read about the sex Q/A. You know, the kind of one where couples send questions to a sexologist and he/she answers them. You can just call it a guilty pleasure or a pet peeve or whatever. I find it entertaining to read about the kind of problems straight couples face regarding sex This week I read something that made me think now that's rare ....okay the que
'Tis the witching week! Perfect timing to talk about the three short stories we featured this month by GA authors, Gee Whillickers, Cynus, and Bill W. Did you make time to read them? They're only about 5k each, so if you haven't, check out the announcement blog post with links to each one. If you did, now's the time to add your comments and reviews! First, of course, I have a great interview with each author to share.
Cynus:
What’s your favorite Halloween memory or tradition?
This me
Last night, I went on the Halloween Loop, which is something that Wilmington puts on every year as a way to entertain their residents and the people of the suburbs and making Wilmington a happening night spot, at least for that particular night. Anyway, dressed as a cowboy, I went to many different bars- Chelsea Tavern, Extreme Pizza, Shenaniganz, Firestone Roasting House, Kelly's Logan House, Satsuma Kitchen, Scratch Magoo's, and finally ended up at Rooney's/The Trolley Square Tap Room. It was
It's hard to believe that it's almost November! This year has flown by so quickly and we're once again at the end of the week. I hope everyone has had a good weekend and now it's time to look back over the week. Before I do that, just a reminder that tomorrow is the CSR Discussion for the Halloween short stories. Speaking of Halloween, keep an eye out for a special Halloween post this coming Wednesday.
Monday brought us a review from Timothy M. of carringtonrj's story Presence. Based on the
Hey everyone!
There is this site, that I used to visit a lot when I was sixteen or seventeen. Well, if Literotica and Nifty had children together, this site would have been the naughty one so, that should give y'all an idea on what the site is like
Many of its stories weren't really that great. Heck, a lot of them were more porn than plot However, like Literotica and Nifty, there were gems here and there.
One of those gems, is the reason for this blog
Back in May 2013, I ca
https://www.gayauthors.org/story/w-l/0sand1scbdt
To sum everything up into two sentences:
Knowledge is power, not just power in the form of magic or a nuclear weapons, it is the power to bring down individuals and nations through revelations. Whether it is an anti-LGBT group or a LGBT defensive team formed by a group of geniuses, in our modern world of integrated technology, knowledge is a weapon that can kill or protect.
Wow! Is it me or are the weeks flying by? Welcome to another Friday, and you know what that means don't you? Prompt time. As usual, I don't want to hold you up, but need everyone to remember that prompt responses under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection. Now, on to the prompts.
Prompt 456 – Creative
Tag – First Line
“How did I forget his birthday again?”
Prompt 457 – Creative
Tag – Spiders
To say you loath spiders would be a gross understatement. However,
So, my movie theater ran the Back to the Future trilogy last night, in celebration of Back To the Future Day. I wasn't able to see the first two, but I did get to see the third movie...and I gotta tell you, after Doc Brown and his wife Clara fly off in their time travel train with a content Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker, I just felt like a happy little 9-year old kid again. I'd never gotten to see the movies in theater because I was either a baby or a toddler, and there was something just magi
For a while in the blog, we used to do "Blast from the Past" posts. All of these posts came from the old newsletter. I was struggling to figure out what to post for today, when I thought, why not check out the earlier posts of the revived blog. In looking back, I found the perfect post, and it happens to be the first "Writing Tip" that was posted when Lugh started the blog back up. I hope you find it informative.
If you want to check out the past comments on the original post, you can go c
So like, something curious happened today.
Me and my mate, on the school computers, cracking out some media studies work, and I just happen to be on my photo drive staring at this picture I snatched off a digital album posted on the school site of a junior hockey sports game. The photo was of my best crush in the whole wide world even if you combined hot guys like Charlie Puth and Zac Efron together he still would be my pick crush since last year, standing on his lonesome, in the middle of a ho
Being the start of a new week, Monday's are also a good time to take a look at some of the different stories that can be found on Gay Authors. With so many great works, it can be easy to overlook one and Monday's provide an opportunity for us to help make one of them stand out and maybe catch your interest. Today, we're bringing you a review by Timothy M. of carringtonrj's story "Presence". Enjoy!
Presence
by
carringtonrj
Promising Author
Reviewer: Timothy M.
S
https://www.gayauthors.org/story/w-l/billynewttamesadragon
Alright, so let me explain a few things:
1. Magic to me can be broken down into Psi ability of Telekinesis, whether it is moving objects, slowing it down, weather control, or teleportation (Physics of quantum entanglement and other stuff).
Warlocks in my universe are endowed with a unique ability to grow and channel their magic within themselves. They don't need conduits like the earth or any pagan deity, like Witches and dem
Once again, it's been awhile since my last entry.
For this entry, I'm going to concentrate on the walking that I mentioned before. In August of 2014, I bought myself an exercise tracker. I started out with one of the cheaper ones that tracked my daily steps, calories burned, and my sleep at night. I can the information to my computers, phone, and tablet.
When I started having problems with the tracker almost a year later, I upgraded to one of the trackers which has clock built in. It als
I hope everyone had a great week! I think today I'm going to get right into the Wrap Up for the week.
Monday and Wednesday were all about K.C. and his story "A Grim Fairytale", which just so happens to be this month's Signature Author Background. On Monday, Cia wrote a review for the story and then on Wednesday she interviewed KC. If you haven't already checked them out, they're sitting there waiting.
Friday brought us a couple of new prompts from the prompt guru Comicfan. This week he g
Story: Jason
Why do I like this kind of story?
In terms of writing, it is grammatically bad, which in the modern world of Gay stories is a death knell for readers (I understand what you must think, if a writer cannot edit, they should not be writing and posting), but in terms of content, it holds a good message with extremely poignant characters that we can all desire to live up to or desire to be. It has weaknesses and hokey plot elements, plus the usual Dickensian problems of the early
Just thought I'd drop a note now that Lie of the Serpent is done to let anyone who was curious know what I have going on in my head now.
Well, apparently, I've deviated from my original plan. I have a couple ideas floating in my head, one of which was the gymnast one I mentioned in one of my poems and in a previous blog. And I actually started it--one chapter, sort of.
But then another idea hit me--okay, pounded me over the head--because I started it as well. I think I'm more inve
Well, I don't want to let my readers down; even if the appeal was small and marginal, I will give them one more short story in that universe at the very least. I am not going to commit to a long term unless you guys want me to, since I do have a primary story being launched.
For the upcoming launch of Cyber Bullying Defense Team, 8 chapters have finished editing with a Halloween special Kitt is working on the tail portion right now, but that part will not be released until December/January.
So after a pretty disastrous September, October has started out really well!
Launched our own company, with which we have three projects under our radar which I thought i'd blog about
PROJECT ONE: The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo, July 2016.
I'm casting for a new 50 minute version of the above novel with a multiroling cast. It's going to be great fun and a wonderful production. I'm in the directors chair for this one and it's partially devised, so it will be nice getting b
Just the facts:
COALESCE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
COALESCE Synonyms: 93 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
COALESCING Synonyms: 138 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
coalesce
/ˌkōəˈles/
Coalesce is a verb that means to come together, unite, or merge from separate elements into a single mass, group, or whole.
General Definition an
In storytelling, coalesce refers to the moment separate narrative elements—like independent plotlines, disparate characters, or recurring motifs—come together to form a unified, meaningful whole. It is the structural glue that transforms a collection of random events into a cohesive, impactful story.
The importance of coalescing in storytelling can be broken down into several key narrative functions:
Structural Order:
Weaving multi-POV narratives: In stories with multiple pe
The word coalesce comes from the Latin verb coalēscere, which means "to grow together" or "to unite into one body". It was formed by combining the prefix co-/com- meaning "together" or "with" and the Latin verb alēscere meaning "to grow up" or "to be nourished", which is an inchoative form of alere ("to nourish, suckle, or feed").
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the verb coalesce was first used in English in the mid-1500s, with its earliest recorded evidence datin
Chiaroscuro—derived from the Italian words for "light" (chiaro) and "dark" (oscuro)—is a visual storytelling technique that uses stark contrasts between light and shadow to shape how an audience experiences a narrative.
Key Roles of Chiaroscuro in Storytelling:
Guiding Narrative Focus and Hierarchy: It acts as a visual spotlight, directing the observer's eye straight to what matters most in a scene while letting non-essential or secretive elements recede into the dark.
Revealing P
The word chiaroscuro comes from Italian, combining chiaro ("clear", "bright", or "luminous") and scuro ("dark" or "obscure"). The compound word was formed in Italian to describe the artistic practice of contrasting light and dark shadows. It originally described Renaissance drawings on colored paper (where artists used white highlights and dark ink), later expanding to mean dramatic high-contrast lighting in paintings, woodcuts, and film.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the t
Just the facts:
CHIAROSCURO Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
CHIAROSCURO Synonyms & Antonyms - 27 words | Thesaurus.com
chiaroscuro
/kyärəˈsko͝orō/
Chiaroscuro is an Italian art term that translates literally to "light-dark" (chiaro meaning "clear" or "bright," and scuro meaning "dark" or "obscure").
Definition
In Art: It refers to the use of strong, deliberate contras