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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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huktaunluv's Blog

What I want for this upcoming year!

After one the worst years of my life last year, I look to 2014 with a new attitude and a new fondness for life.   2013 brought about the loss of a friend (they didn't die), an unexpected emergency surgery and the length of my hair.   The friend, I'd mentioned in a past blog I'd written, is still a sore spot with me because I never received the closure, I felt I was owed from my ex-friend. I've seen this person but I was in a rush to get to catch the last bus for me to get home. I saw her and
huktaunluv

huktaunluv

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Wayne's Updates

Endings

Here we are barely a week into the new year and already dealing with issues. A close friend of the family lost his father. He'd gone into the hospital for discs in his back that were disintegrating. When the hospital operated they found cancer in his spinal cord. He went from an expected hospital stay of two weeks and then rehab to just over two weeks and him passing away on Sunday. He was buried today.   Also seems I can do no right in other areas of my life. Seriously considering just backin
comicfan

comicfan

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Stuff from Cia

Win my eBook: Protecting Bear

I began this story as a flash piece with my blog group, The Wednesday Briefers. With a lot of polish, and over 14k in new content... it's now Protecting Bear. Today only, January 10th, you could win a copy on my off-site blog! Just comment, include your email, and you could win! Contest ends at 10 PM, PST. All comments also count toward my $10 Amazon gift card contest ending on my blog, January 20th.   Visit my blog contest   Protecting Bear is also available for purchase for only $2.99
Cia

Cia

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The River Song

Life update, into the new year and beyond

This year has been an awesome year so far, and we have some really great plans for the next 6-9 months that are really going to change our lives for the better. I am so STOKED for 2014.   For a start, I feel like I'm finally getting a grip on my health issues. The big thing here is that I'm using conventional drugs to control pain and stuff, but then I'm using some complementary therapies to help me reduce the reliance on those drugs and improve the condition for the better.   For example,
Westie

Westie

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Writing World

Writing Prompts #292 & #293

Another Friday is here and you all know what that means - yes, new prompts.   Prompt 292 – Creative Tag – The Horoscope You never put any trust in the horoscopes, but today when you got to work your co-worker walked over and nearly shoved the paper in your face asking you to read it. When you looked up your horoscope it was as if someone had filmed your morning so far and what you read for your afternoon completely floored you. What was your horoscope and did it come true?   Prompt 293 – Cre
comicfan

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joann414's Blog

Not a Tongue in Cheek Blog

So. I find it amusing at times the things I see posted at GA. There's so much knowledge here that some could get a free education. Before the Soapbox closed, politics were wide open. If you didn't know something, you probably could find it in the Soapbox.   Next, I read all of the posts made by teachers. How wonderful. Where I live, schools are losing their accreditation, teachers are poorly paid, and students are beyond redemption. It makes me feel good to read some of the posts by tea
joann414

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Editor's Notebook

Gay Sport Stars Come out of the Closet

I read today that that Thomas Hitzlsperger has outed himself. Thomas is a retired soccer star who once played for Everton, West Ham and Germany and had a mean left goal kick. I admire any celebrity who outs themselves because mostly it paves the way for other celebrities to come out, and break the barriers between what is PERCEIVED to be normal and what is not perceived to be normal.   But, I do have concerns. Sport is not the domain of baby makers. Sport belongs to everyone. Heterosexuals ar
LJH

LJH

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A Point of View...

Climate Change

Hmm. Gets a lot of strong reactions. Like religion   First off "climate change" and "global warming". They are not the same words and they do not have the same meaning.   However they are two sides of the same coin. Global warming is about averages. Climate change is about localized conditions. It's important not to conflate them.   But guess what - that's exactly what the "strong reactors" do! So with all the cold weather records being broken in the US over the last week or so, the "str
Zombie

Zombie

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Writing World

Writing Tip: Story Cost.... More Or Less

So, I was looking through some of the blog articles that I have and was trying to decide what would be a good choice for Wacky Wednesday. It was a hard choice, to be honest, but then I came across this little gem. Since I don't want to give too much away, I'll just let you see for yourself what I found... Story Cost... More or Less by Cia   Yes, we're putting a price on stories. No more free fiction.   *snickers*   Are you getting ready to flame me? Okay, okay, we're not goin
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens in Writing Tips

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Skywriting

Too Much Television

This dream-story was pretty obviously inspired by American Horror Story: Coven. The characters looked different, mostly, although sometimes not (it being a dream). Strangely, one person in the dream version looked like Jensen Ackles. I don't exactly disapprove, but I watch nothing he's on, and I wonder how he wandered on set, as it were. Another influence would have been Tanya Huff's Gale Girls novels. There was one line of dialogue that I remembered that I unfortunately had to leave out, becaus
B1ue

B1ue

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Methodwriter85's Blog

My 2013 Playlist

So, the year's over, and we're starting a new year...what was your playlist for 2013? Here was mine...   1.   2.   3.   4.   5.   6.   7.   8.   9.   10.   11.   12.   13.   14.   15.   16.   17.   18.   19.   20.   21.   It seems like for 2013, there were two trends- electronic-based, and folksy inspired stuff. Kinda diametrically opposed, but it makes sense that there'd be two trends that were
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Trebs' Blog

Utah and SCOTUS

If you don't know, SCOTUS is shorthand for Supreme Court Of The United States. Utah officials had appealed the recent Federal Court rulings mandating that Utah process and recognize same-sex marriages, and pending appeal, requested a stay of the lower court rulings. This stay was denied first by the lower court, then by the 10th Circuit but this morning, SCOTUS granted the stay.   In my opinion, Utah (and a court challenge in Virginia that AFER is working on) may be the tipping point that for
Trebs

Trebs

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Gay Authors News

January Csr Book Club Selection: Totallyy's Shorts

What's that? We're going to feature Totallyy's shorts? Yeppers! The short ones, the shorter ones... even the teeny tiny ones! His short stories, that is! Pick any number of Totallyy's short stories, as much as you like reading this month. Then let us know what you read, what you thought, and if you read more than one, pick your favorite.   Totallyy's Short Stories Are We More Than Just Friends 1,012 words Don't Cross the Threshold 1,176 words Feelings I Don't Know How to
Cia

Cia in CSR- Can't Stop Reading

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Trebs' Blog

A lighter entry

Thanks for the comments and support on my last entry. It really helped to get it all out - so many times, I start drafting copy of information like this in my mind, over and over (occupational hazard I guess). It doesn't always see the light of day which just makes it easier to obsess about and continue to mentally revise and review, so getting it out - it's done, time to move on.   The year is actually starting out really well. I love musicals and saw a great performance of Cabaret last ni
Trebs

Trebs

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Thorn's Edibles

Tasty, healthy almond scones!

My own twist on the classic English tea time treat.   You need:   400ml whole wheat flour 2 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 60g butter A handful of almonds, chopped or crushed 150ml milk   1. Set oven to 225*C.   2. Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Divide the butter into little pieces with your fingers and add to the flour mix until you have a loose mass.   3. Add the almonds and the milk, kneading with your ha
Thorn Wilde

Thorn Wilde

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Fortune and Mens Eyes

after I am dead

Sonnet No. 144 [January 5th, 2014 – 7:05 am]   I am but a man against the flow of Time, And after I am dead, others will label What they see in me with words that are not mine, And homophobes will give full reign to their libel. Even now, the 'H' word is jammed down our throats, As Wikipedia gives haters free roam To define us with a word that gets our goats – As if Blacks were called 'negroes' in that tome! What I call myself is the all-important, Because I do it with love, and t
AC Benus

AC Benus

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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

This week both said good-bye to 2013 and welcomed in 2014. I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year. Now let's take a look at what happened this week in the Gay Authors News Blog!   As the last post of 2013 we had the CSR Discussion for Cia's story Bonds Unbroken. I sent Cia a list of interview questions which she answered in depth and posted for the discussion day, but after that, it was up to the readers to share their thoughts on the first story in the Carthera Takeover series. If you
Renee Stevens

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Life is worth an entry

Is this Pro-Science or Pro-Religion? Interesting TV Show Clip

So I was looking up the Twilight Zone and came upon this episode clip of the 1985 series. I never watched the 1980's series, because it came before I was born and the classics in the 1960's series to me are far better in terms of the Twilight Zone stories. However, I was drawn to this one, since it was based off a story from Arthur C. Clarke. Clarke was influenced by Eastern thought and the cycle of Creation/Destruction are prominent in this story.   I watched it and felt sort of conflicted by
W_L

W_L

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Writing World

Writing Prompts #290 & #291

Well here we are at the first Friday of the New Year. I hope everyone had fun. As we start the new year I have had people approach me asking about new ideas for the prompts. Considering it isn't the first time I have been approached about this topic, I figured we would give it a try. So, here are your first prompts for 2014   Prompt 290 - Creative Tag - Photo   Use the following image to create a story.   Prompt 291 – Creative Tag - First Line “Oh crap! Here we go again.”   Last week in
comicfan

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joann414's Blog

New Year, New Happenings

I've been under the weather for four or five days now. Hubby gets home today and grandson wants to go get Gatorade, hot pockets, etc. I put a sweat shirt on over my long sleeved tee shirt and yoga pants and head out. We are walking around in the small store, and I shout, softly, "Come on. We need to go." A guy look around the aisle, and says, "Are you talking to me?" I'm like, "NO, I was talking to my grandson Kyle. Sorry." "No worry, I'll go with you." WTF I'm 54 years old, feel like
joann414

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