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    Weekly Wrap Up (Sept. 15 - Sept. 21)

    By wildone

    First thing first, I really need anyone who is thinking to enter our yearly Anthology, please see Val's Thursday blog and if you fingers haven't started typing, get them going! As you read this, I am indisposed. Read into that what you want . But I'm up by a lake in the mountains looking at the colours change for fall.  So next week in the northern hemisphere, we flip into fall, autumn, whatever you like to call it. Down under the equator, they are about to hit spring   What is y
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Menace Years

Adulthood

It's been a few weeks since I've turned eighteen. Metamorphosing from teen to adulthood was kind of scary when I thought about it. But I'm more scared of being an adult.   Under my sugarcoated happiness and weirdness, I have fears of things that it's sometimes stupid and childish at most but also maybe it's because I'm having an early mid-life crisis.   Under my armor, I'm scared of what will become of the future. The unforeseen sights and events that could occur in my life. I wonder what is
Menace

Menace

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Fortune and Mens Eyes

The Sensualist Burger

The Sensualist Burger     Not much has been said about the typewriter's powerful limitations on an artist's imagination. Typing a thing makes it look so permanent, and shatters the pretty illusion that a pen-stroke offers of an easy redo. To that end, there came a generation of writers tied to the terrible indelibility of a typewritten word, sentence and paragraph. And, I have read that Earnest Hemingway would sit in agonized concentration for an hour or more before he dared to strike the k
AC Benus

AC Benus

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Writing World

Writing Prompts #334 & #335

There are many reasons that people might look forward to Friday, but here at the GA News Blog, we look forward to Friday because it means one thing.... New Prompts!!! Sometimes we get stuck and need a little push to help us get writing again, that's what the prompts are all about, to help get the juices flowing. As always, Comicfan has provided two new prompts for you to take a stab at. Hopefully one of these will inspire you to write a little something!   Prompt 334 – Creative Tag – List of W
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Prompts

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Life is worth an entry

Officially as of 1:47 PM today, I am a homeowner

My blogs are pictures of my life at a certain point in time, so on my birthday on all the possible days for this to happen, I close on my house.   I can bore you with the process that had occurred through the last 2 months, but I won't. Suffice to say, I believe the Municipal government of Boston is incredibly corrupt and is getting kickbacks from contractors in order to enforce ordinances that seem on paper to be easy to follow, but in practice, require an accuracy that can only be done by m
W_L

W_L

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Stuff from Cia

eBook Review: Let it Ride by L.C. Chase

Let it Ride by L.C. Chase My rating: 4 of 5 stars   I read Let it Ride... and then let it ride. It's hard to write this review without spoiling the story. My first impressions of Bridge were of a big, affable cowboy whose everyone's friend on the surface. Under that, he has a great big heart that's set on Eric. Eric is cautious, and with his past, slow to trust.   Watching their dance play out as they go from the private 'I want him, does he want me?' moments to the end was great. At no tim
Cia

Cia

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Gay Authors News

Premium Tuesday: Coin In The Fountain

The last two weeks I've been featuring stories from the 2013 Summer Premium Anthology. This week I am featuring the final story from that anthology, Coin in the Fountain, by Comicfan. As with all Premium stories, in order to read Coin in the Fountain, members need to purchase a Premium Subscription. For more information on how to purchase a Premium Subscription, check out the links at the end of this blog post!   Coin in the Fountain by Comicfan   Dan finds out that t
Random Thought's

Interesting Conversation with my boss

So today I had a meeting with my boss to do my monthly performance review. Usually it is done face to face but this time it was via telephone.   We talked about my numbers for the quarter and what I have been doing and trouble I am stirring up in a good way.   So the good news: I work the next 3 days but have been told not to do anything relating to our team email box. Not because I am going on vacation but because I have done triple the amount they want us to complete. Some people are strug
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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huktaunluv's Blog

I need to vent!

For the past few months, I've had the misfortune of having to work three jobs to keep my head above water financially. This is getting increasingly harder to do now that one job is done for the summer season and the remaining two are constantly cutting back on hours. I've worked almost 50 hours a week sometimes working two jobs a day for three months. But now I find myself barely working twenty hours combined for the last two weeks. How am I supposed to pay bills and rent when my jobs are taking
huktaunluv

huktaunluv

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The River Song

Transition

By no means do I have a particularly complex job... but it turns out I do have a broad base of responsibilities. Until you start writing your "transition" documents, you don't realise just how "big" your job is.   I am writing four separate transition briefings. The first two are client specific, for my two major clients and are currently running at around 10,000 for client (1) and 8,000 for client (2). I have a "process and products" briefing to write detailing the processes I manage, the
Westie

Westie

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Gay Authors News

Featured Story: The Matchmaker Is Grounded

It's the start of another week and that means it's time to look at a new story. I'm always asking for reviews for the blog (by the way, if you want to do a review, PM me) so this week I decided it was past time that I did another review for the blog. With so many talented authors on site, it was hard to choose a story to review. In the end, I decided to review "The Matchmaker is Grounded" by Dark. I hope you enjoy the review and that it inspires you to check out Dark's story. The Matchmaker i
Life is worth an entry

Writing an interesting character, real ancient royalty

As I am getting older and wiser as a human being and a writer, I am recognizing a lot of fictional tropes that people fall into when writing characters. In order to create picture perfect fiction, writers fall into stereotypes like the fairy tale storyline of medieval and ancient kingdoms.   For example, the princess stereotype is not merely a Disney concoction, but a revisionist historical view of females in actual history. Actual princesses did not stew around in their rooms looking pretty a
W_L

W_L

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Musings From Me

STRESS!

So a little update, and a freak out   The thought of moving home freaks me out, on many many levels.   But I look forward to it at the same time, it’s really weird.   Let me give some context.   So about a month ago, I booked a trip to go and see mikie again, because I had the money from my student grant, plus I’d earnt a lot at work to afford the trip. So all is good.   However, I hadn’t told my mother yet. As many of you have heard, my mum can be a bit of a nightmare. She has a lot
Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

Hope everyone is having a great summer so far! Before I get into the Weekly Wrap Up, I'd like to announce that I have opened up Theme Suggestions for the 2015 Anthologies. Members will be able to make their suggestions in the thread through July 20th, so get your thinking caps on and share your lists! Now, lets see what happened this past week in the news blog.   On Monday, Percy supplied us with a review of "Memoirs of a Child of the Past Century" by Old Bob. He did a little bit different of
jamessavik's Blog

Tired of being Sick, going on vacation

My friendly mosquitoes gave me something fun. It's called Chikungunya and it really sucks balls ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chikungunya ).   In addition to an astonishing fever, you get arthritis affecting multiple joints and insomnia. There's other fun that I missed out on.   The fever part lasts a couple of weeks but the joint inflammation is only just beginning to subside. It's been a couple of months and I am feeling a lot better. Just never thought I would catch something that comes
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Wayne's Updates

Facing Facts

It is time of goodbyes. I seem to have a lot of them coming my way. Some are way more painful than others. Some seem to hurt only me. Here is hoping I don't have to say goodbye to them all.
comicfan

comicfan

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Writing World

Writing Prompts #332 & #333

I almost can't believe it's already Friday again, this week just seems to have gone by so quickly. Thanks to Comicfan, we have two new prompts for you today. As a reminder, you are more than welcome to upload your prompt responses into GA stories (we even have a genre for them), but if you do so, please remember that all stories under 1,000 words must be posted in collections. Now, lets see what Comicfan has for us this week.   Prompt 332 – Creative Tag – First Line “Try it again, and I will k
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Prompts

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Life is worth an entry

Exploring Gay Cinema beyond just porn :D

There's a lot out there to explore, a lot of undiscovered territories to write, direct, and view. I might be a simple viewer and listener to these interesting tales that ranges from the generic stereotypical story of "Booy meets Boy meets world" to some awesome explorations into human passions and limits in love and understanding.   As a writer, I love writing the human condition, not simply because it's the hottest thing out there or people will remember it a hundred years from now, but it
W_L

W_L

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Gay Authors Archive

Ga's Newest Signature Author: Andy78

Promising Author no more - please join us in congratulating our newest Signature Author, Andy78! Between his 34 different published stories, tons of reviews written about others stories as well as responding to over 93% of the reviews of his own stories, and all of his forum posts and works as a site moderator, you wonder if he's somehow manipulating time to be able to do it all   Andy78 has a few longer stories, but it is his wonderful short stories that truly capture the imagination and mak
Trebs

Trebs in News Archive

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TetRefine's Blog

Old People Can Be Really Funny Sometimes.

We often expect old people to be stuffy when it comes to humor, but today that stereotype was thrown out the window.   Now that I've graduated, my school has cut off my gym privileges so I've had to start going to a local gym around the corner. I go in the middle of the day, so its basically only old people and college kids there at that time. It was 95 degrees today and so humid you could feel the water in the air. It was miserable. Anyway, after I got done my workout I went into the locker r
TetRefine

TetRefine

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Writing World

Writing Tip: Crafting A Story

Crafting a Story... More Work than You Might Think! by Cia   There's a lot that goes into writing a story, more than what the average reader would think. After thinking up the story, and writing then it, there comes the many rounds of editing. This is the nuts and bolts process, when you strip something down to its basic components and put it all back together--hopefully without any extra pieces! For me, that involves several reads of the story. Then I ask for help from my tea
Cole Matthews' Dark and Dusty History Corner

Unchained Melody

In “The Bachelor Farmer” I portray the dissemination of a term, ‘homosexelles’ to describe men loving other men and women loving other women. Prior to Kertbeny’s new word in the late nineteenth century, only terms that described sex acts were used to define gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. Over time that word, “homosexual,” came into common usage and a new identity group was born. However, being a homosexual wasn’t necessarily embraced by the general public including governments around the world.
Cole Matthews

Cole Matthews

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Gay Authors News

Premium Tuesday: Save Tonight

Last week for the Premium Tuesday post we took a look at one of the stories in the 2013 Summer Premium Anthology. There were three stories in total and this week we're taking a look at one of the other stories in that anthology, "Save Tonight" by CassieQ. After checking out "Save Tonight" you can find out more about how to purchase a premium subscription! Save Tonight by CassieQ   What do you want?' A wish reluctantly made, urged on by his little girl, brings Gavin something
Gay Authors News

Featured Story: Memoirs Of A Child Of The Past Century

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 Percy of Old Bob's story "Memoirs of a Child of the Past Century." Enjoy! Memoirs of a Child of the Past Century by Old Bob   Revie
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