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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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Blashi Blog Blog

Random Stream of Consciousness

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city.   And that was how Brett Easton Ellis started his debut novel, Less Than Zero. Bumblebee's recent status update sort of reminds me how a fussy past sometimes can come back at the most inconvenient time. Some of you guys know I am a photographer, so I have a huge amount of photographs in my hard drive, many photos go way back to a time I don't want to remember. And today, whi
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Ashi

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Gay Authors News

Csr Book Club Selection: Accidents Happen By Comicfan

It's September already! I'm off on the last summer hurrah, a family camping weekend, but I've managed to bring the September selection to you for your reading enjoyment! Per your voting (thank you to everyone who did the poll!) this month's selection is .... Accidents Happen by Comicfan   Length: 93,993   Description: Charlie's whole life has been a series of accidents. He often joked that if it wasn't for bad luck he wouldn't be here. But now that everything is changing agai
Cia

Cia in CSR- Can't Stop Reading

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asamvav111's Rainbow Couch

It Is Necessary To See Death

It is necessary to see death.   It is necessary to see death, stark naked, lurid and wild, Death as it pisses in the dark alleyways drunk and ecstatic on the jumps of drugs that are hard to name and harder to pronounce, it is still necessary to see death face to face. In a breach of society sanctioned lucidity hardwired in our brain, It is still very necessary to see death, To see the violent vandalism of civilization, Of ashes and nuclear death of atoms and atom bombs, Billions of flashligh
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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

ANNOUNCEMENT: Congratulations are in order for GayAuthors.org's newest Hosted Author - CassieQ!   Can you believe - August is OVAHH - and with it, two-thirds of the year is done. And with the end of the month, this past Monday our Can't Stop Reading bookclub held its discussion day for the August story - Don't Shout by Sasha Distan. Lots of good discussion on the story, and there is a poll for what you want the September CSR story to be - GO VOTE if you haven't yet!   Speaking of voting - we
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Trebs in Weekly Wrap Up

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Life is worth an entry

One Last Background detail: Leadership

Alright, last background detail and a note for Asamav   Note: In my novel, when he does come into the picture, I split off two separate concepts about the monkey King. In "Journey to the West", it is mentioned that he attained an immortal body due to his consumption of immortal fruits, immortal pills, and other things in heaven. I took that idea and thought about its implications to ascension in both the Buddhist concept and how I want the concept to work in my novel. The monkey king would ne
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Stuff from Cia

eBook Review: Sweet Young Thang by Anne Tenino

Sweet Young Thang by Anne Tenino My rating: 3 of 5 stars   Things go wrong ... again, and again. Beware, this review has a whole bunch of spoilers. Overall, I liked the story but felt that it was rather mediocre in my reading experience. That has nothing to do with the drama in the book, but more of my own perceptions.         If you like college fiction, or stories with fireman paramedics, romance and a lot of drama... this story could be for you. I might be a bit picky about preferrin
Cia

Cia

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Life is worth an entry

Background: Demons and Monsters; Gods and beyond

Another Teaser   If I am going to write with eastern mythology, folklore, traditions, philosophies, and religions in mind; I can't ignore the subject of strange beings.   Now, I can write them all off as Aliens, which would work for my scientific premise, but I think that's a blatant act of bad writing and imagination nowadays. Sure a few could have been alien astronauts, but it does not do the ancient stories justice.   In my novel, some monsters and demons are results of ancient Taoist
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Life is worth an entry

Background: Five elements

Another Background blog entry, I am such a big tease   This is going to be novel, a real full length one. If it is something that really gets going, who knows.   The Five Elements:   In Asian mysticism, there are several well known elemental concepts that Eastern beliefs based their entire religious and philosophical principles on. There are differences between cultures and views on what elements belong in the cycle. For instance, Japanese tradition have the "Wind" and "Void" elements in
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Nephylim's Blog

Rainbow Warriors - The Face in the Window

After almost a year The Face in the Window is due for release shortly. I don't know the date yet but I'll keep you informed,   This is the first book I'm releasing under my own name and it's a little bit nerve wracking. However, I want to stand up and be counted and I want my family and friends to know my work as my work. So, as nerve wracking as it is, it's liberating too.   I've started a new blog Rainbow Warriors. Take a look and see what a Rainbow Warrior is all about. http://cherylheadf
Nephylim

Nephylim

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Methodwriter85's Blog

Education in America- Jeff Bliss Rants Against Lazy Teacher

I wanted to post this in the lounge, but I thought the topic of Education in America could get political really quick. There's this video making the rounds on YouTube, where a students rants against what he deems a lazy teacher because she hands out work packets instead of actally teaching. Here's the video:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQlPGK9wYkg   And here's the Teens React episode:     I do think Jeff Bliss hits a nerve- there is a deep fracture in how children are curr
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Life is worth an entry

Magic and Science: A little background from WL

Before I post my story, I want to first establish some common concepts.   In ancient China, there were many superstitions about Taoism and Taoists followers, including their ability to perform magic, increase a human lifespan, and communicate with spirits, Gods, and other beings beyond the realm of man. The mystic tradition of Taoism still believes in the powerful potential of studying Taoist texts like the Tao te Ching and performing traditional rituals that were borrowed from spiritualists d
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Writing World

Writing Prompts #258 & #259

Yeah I know it says Trebs but this is actually comicfan. Trebs needed to get this done and set it up before I could, so I am taking it back.   Yes August is nearly a memory but the month isn't over yet. I still have time to tempt you with some new prompts. So with no further ado, here they are.   Prompt 258 – Creative Tag – First Line “So you decide to tell me that now!”   Prompt 259 – Creative Tag – Last Goodbye The tests are conclusive. You have only six months till you go into space on
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Trebs in Prompts

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advocatus diaboli's Blog

I have a prediction.

Recently, Google Ventures lead a huge $258 million investment round in Uber. Which is interesting in itself, because it's their largest investment ever. But, things are put into an interesting perspective when you consider some of the rumors floating around.   So... Google wants to build cars and sell them to Uber. Sounds great, really. Uber will corner the automated taxi business, grow huge and go public. Google will cash out and get a huge return on their investment. But why stop there? Why
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advocatus diaboli

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Gay Authors News

Csr Discussion Day: Don't Shout By Sasha Distan

Welcome back to another Discussion day with the Can't Stop Reading Blog Book Club. Whew, is that a mouthful. What isn't a mouthful is the story that is the subject of today's discussion. Quite a bit of the problem we're introduced to right away is that fact that one character doesn't talk at all, at least not out loud. I hope everyone is ready to discuss their thoughts about Don't Shout by Sasha Distan. First, though, we're going to learn a bit more about Sasha, who I subjected to another one of
Cia

Cia in CSR- Can't Stop Reading

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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

ANNOUNCEMENT: If you hadn't seen the news yet, please help us welcome GayAuthors.org's newest Hosted Author - the one, the only (due to court injunction) - COMICFAN! Congratulations comicfan on your new status!   Kids are back in school (or about to be) and I think that helped make Monday's Featured story feel even more relevant - The Paradox of Friendship by InTheMindofSunshine. Joann414 gave us one her fantastic reviews of this tale (which now has a sequel that's started coming out) and man
Trebs

Trebs in Weekly Wrap Up

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Renee's News

Apologies

As an update to my reflections blog...   It has been confirmed that my grandmother is terminal. Honestly, it is expected, but suspecting and being faced with that reality are two different things. She has been told that she is terminal and chances are, even as stubborn as she is, she will quit fighting to stay with us. This is evidenced by her most recent decision. She has changed her living will so that she now has a DNR and nothing will be done to prolong life. Anything, including antib
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens

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old bob's Blog

After the storm, fine weather always comes back

I'm no more the same after getting out of the hospital yesterday. I regained my good humor and my optimism. Contrary to my fears, the examinations were very positive. The cancer has stopped growing and all vital functions run smoothly. I should not have listened to the urologists who talked to me of an extension of the cancer toward the bladder. This is often the problem when dealing with several SPs who don’t agree with each other I   For years I had to deal with the medics, either as pati
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old bob

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Writing World

Writing Prompts #256 & #257

Uh oh, is it Friday already? Where did the week go? I swear I was, well, never mind. So here we are again ladies and gents about to face another weekend. Some of us just keep right on going about our lives while others are preparing for school or have just returned. Before everyone is overwhelmed, well, I have a few things for you to look over and consider. Might you have time to write one more little story? It is prompt time.   Prompt 256 – Creative Tag - List of Words Use the following in a
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Wayne's Updates

A Moment of Thanks

I think it is important every now and then to take a moment and think about the various good things that are happening, especially when so many things are going wrong.   Right now I have friends who are watching loved ones dying, facing cancer, or just surgery for various health reasons. They have faced other issues with their health and family, yet they find the strength daily to keep getting up, facing the world, and moving forward. No one said it was easy, or that it wouldn't be painful, bu
comicfan

comicfan

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Percy's Blog

Gender Direction

I keep running into this person in my neighborhood grocery store who is obviously having a lot of fun playing around with gender presentation. This person is probably mid to late 50s, assigned male at birth. Preferred gender now? Hard to say.   E seems to have split gender presentation 50% male and 50% female. From the waist down, e’s going for a feminine appearance. Strappy little sandals, pedicured toes and painted nails, shaved legs and short shorts in a women’s cut. From the waist up, regu
Percy

Percy

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