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  • Myr

    Mystery Deep Dive 4

    By Myr

    Top 1 Most Read Mystery - Amateur Sleuth Features characters who are not professional detectives but get involved in solving mysteries due to personal interest or circumstance. Bleeding Hearts by Josh Aterovis In Process Top 1 Most Read Mystery - Caper Light-hearted mystery that is easy to read, witty and not too intense.  Can also be more comic in nature.  Examples: Clue, Scooby Doo, Hardy Boys, or Janet Evanovitch books A Ticklish Thriller (Revised) b
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  • wildone

    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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Writing World

Writing Prompts #130 & #131

Even though we paused our news blog last week, the prompts continued on schedule. So *that* means - we have FOUR prompts to showcase today. As usual, ComicFan is our source of all of this wonderful promptyness...   Prompt 130 – Creative Cue – The Call You have lived your whole life in the same town, however with each passing year you have felt a desire to move. Always you head in the same direction. Now you are legally an adult and the money you have saved manically for the past few years is g
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Menace Years

My Sexuality

Well, it's been what? 2 years since I first figured out I was gay/bi. Still trying to figure out whether im gay/bi/ or straight. But i'm still only a teenagers. Have many more adventures to come. Had 1 ex-bf, and currently an un-official bf. Still not out to all, but hopefully in a few years the fire would spread and the walls will throttle down little by little. Life is unexpected in so many ways. There are many paths that leads to different futures, many doors to many chances. My life is still
Menace

Menace

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Writing World

Writing Tip: Character Building

Interesting characters are usually one of the most important elements of good writing. That's why this great tip by CassieQ is a welcome addition to our GA News Blog. If you have a great tip that you'd like to share with the community, let me or Renee Stevens know.   Character Building by CassieQ   To be 100% honest, writing about characters was hard. Characterization is something that always seemed to flow naturally, so trying to take it apart and explain the mechanics o
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Percy's Blog

Tipping Point

(hoping the formatting comes out okay; posting from the iPad)   Lately I’ve been thinking about the nature of sexual attraction.  I’ve made a few attempts to write about this the past couple weeks, but presenting my stream of conscious mental meandering in an organized and readable way has proven difficult.  In the end, I’ve decided to divide the topic into two broad areas: (i) the sexual attraction I hold for others, and (ii) people I find sexually attractive.    Trying to tease out what
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Wayne's Updates

A Mask is a Mask

A mask is a mask. I don't think people purposely put them on. They just do. People act differently depending on where they are and who they are with.   I was told I didn't have to put a mask on for my friends. I don't think you really do but what you expose to people is different.   I doubt all of us act the same around our parents, our lover, our children, friends, and strangers. It is just part of who we are and how we deal with everyone. No one will talk the same to their best friend as
comicfan

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Gay Authors News

Author Showcase!

What day is it today? Oh yeah, it's Wednesday, which can only mean it's time to showcase two more Authors! Today we have a review of "The House Always Wins" by Promising Author: Andr0gene as well as a review of "Blizzard" by Admin & Author: JSmith! Enjoy!!! The House Always Wins By Andr0gene Reviewer: Renee Stevens Status: Complete Word Count: 51,936   Before I became a beta reader for Andr0gene, I first read his story The House Always Wins. While I have read all of his s
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Owls' hoot's

On-going delay's...an appology

Hello everyone.   As anyone who have read my work knows I'm behind and my posting habit have become even worse than they were before.   I can offer no concrete reasons for this, it's true that things have not been the most ideal for me or my family the last year but because a few messages and conversations that I've had recently that I've allowed the issues too much leeway.   I'm working as hard and fast as I can to get things set on a better track, one that I intend to keep up with at
NightOwl88

NightOwl88

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mmike1969's Blog

Maybe it's not ME but YOU!

So GA has managed to yet again chase away another long time author (dkstories) away from the site. Yeah, I have been here long enough to remember the last major "schism" some members created because of 'differences'...   Of course, who chased him away? Other so-called 'authors' from this site.   Your conduct is beyond appalling and yet YOU are the ones who are calling for civility. Yeah, I don't believe you.   Because if it was between reading dkstories or your stories, I would read dk
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Wayne's Updates

Fixing the mask

I'm usually the bubbly one. I listen, smile, and keep people at arms distance. It isn't that hard.   Every once in a while the mask cracks and the loneliness seeps in. Then I do something stupid, like join a dating site, go on a blind date, or even worse head out to nightclub to see what is out there.   I've learned there is something worse than being overweight, middle aged, and alone. Being overweight, middle aged, and gay in this society. I know women are constantly raked over the coals f
comicfan

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Writing World

Writing Tip: Brainstorming Past Your Block

Brainstorming Past Your Block   Especially when writing a short story, there will often come a time in your plot when you get stuck. One of the best ways to move past a block in the action is to brainstorm what could happen. Then... pick one! Often when I'm trying to figure out the loose overall plot I will do a 'this happens, then that, then this' in a timeline fashion. Sometimes I can't figure out what I want to have happen next and that's when I start brainstorming. I'll do this on my
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Gay Authors News

Featured Story: Stonegate Stables

After a brief lull, we return to our regularly scheduled daily GA News blog, with this review of Gabriel Morgan's Stonegate Stables.   Stonegate Stables By Gabriel Morgan Reviewed By: Renee Stevens Status: Complete Word Count: 230,697   I first started reading ’52 Panhead by Gabriel Morgan on another site. Since it wasn’t finished yet, I went searching for any site that might have more of the story. Instead of more of that story, I found Gabriel on Gay Authors and immediat
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Reset, Reload, Redo

Nanny 911

For those who've talk to me in chat, you know we had a bit of a glitch with the Nanny. We thought we were getting Mary Poppins but what we got was a Nanny 911 reject.   We hired the Nanny - let's call her Mary - because she was an older woman - and by older I mean not in her twenties. She has grown kids, been a nanny for a long time, and had good references. She knew/knows a LOT about babies and their developmental stages, she also didn't ask to be paid under the table. That last one was s
Andrew Q Gordon

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Life is worth an entry

Living witness: History in front of your eyes

I just realized something today, The au bon pain had completely closed down at Harvard square.   I haven't gone to the harvard bookstore in ages, lot's of things getting mixed up in my life and probably a little too much GA soapbox stuff as well. If I had gone down there like I had in the past, I'd noticed the place had changed as I wanted to grab a sandwich after work.   I also didn't realize that a starbucks had opened right near the train station (seriously, there's a starbucks right at t
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ryan jo's Blog

Trollol

I don't get why these types of people still exist, they constantly bother others because they feel important. They constantly troll spaces because they have nothing better to do with themselves. So, they continue to annoy our lives.   My problem with bullies are simple, they like to blame others for the incompetent life they have. I shouldn't have to subject myself to a persons idiotic attitude. What I'm saying is simple, stop your ways. You're not funny, you're not witty, you're not entertain
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Methodwriter85's Blog

Day 43

Day 43, April 17th   While working on Box 9, I came across three religious service books. It made me think about how important religion must have been to the soldiers who fought. It may not have been their personal beliefs, but they definitely had to consider religion as part of their daily lives. I wonder what it might have been like to have been an atheist in World War I- would one have even admitted to such a thing back then?
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Random Thought's

Disappointment

Sooo... Approximately 3 weeks ago I traveled to New Jersey for a face to face interview with a Vice President of a department I wanted to work in. The Director, Associate Director and the hiring manager all loved me and were really excited. Then the interview came. I arrived early to meet with the three decision makers prior to my interview. Everything was solid and good. The VP thought I was late because his secretary didn't know I was there over an hour early to meet the others. I didn't get a
AquariusGuy

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Skywriting

Citadelle de Papillon

I was, originally, going to attempt to turn this into an anthology piece. As I tried to do so, the amount of setting and unpacking needed to make the story stand up falgged to me that I was, at beast, looking at a short novel. More probably a full length novel, if not a series of them. And my dream saw fit to only provide me with part 1. I always suspected I was a bit of a bastard. Parts in purple I added after being awake, to fill in some of the narrative blanks. Parts in black, including the f
B1ue

B1ue

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Gay Authors News

Featured Story: Angst Poetry Collection

Poetry is one of those things I think are in the eye of the beholder. The impact a poem bestows on the reader is only as great as the answering emotion it awakens. When Houdinii offered to do a Hosted Review, I was surprised and pleased when he offered to review Luc's poetry. I thought his review was as honest as he found the poetry; I hope you will enjoy both!   Poetry Collection: Angst By Luc   Review by Houdinii   Marzipan once told me that I, Houdinii, may be great at
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Methodwriter85's Blog

Ghost Hunting

I went on a ghost hunt at IUP this weekend, over at Keith and Leonard Hall. It was cool- last Halloween I went and nothing happened, but this time around, we had some experiences! Using a flashlight that would turn on and off by itself as well as a K2 meter, we had several ghosts communicate to us. One was named Danny- he had identified himself as a founding father of IUP, and had been around during the 1870's and 1880's, and died of an illness in March. I had literal chills going down my back w
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Methodwriter85's Blog

Day 40, Day 41, Day 42

Day 40, April 11th   I finished work on Box 2. Finally.   Day 41, April 13th   I started work on Box 9. It doesn't look as if it'll take as long as Box 2 did. Hopefully.   I gave one of the other grad students a tour of the military exhibit at the society. He's into military history, so I pretty much let him lead the tour. I imagine that something like that will come up when gving tours, running into people who know more about the exhibit(or at least believe they do) than you do. I kept
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Life is worth an entry

My weird taste in movies strike again

If I ever find a good boyfriend, who can live with my eccentricity and political views, he definitely needs to love movies.   This particular movie was interesting, but very out of character for me:   God Bless America   The premise was what drew me towards it: I mean who doesn't have urges sometime after watching MTV to strangle all those reality TV stars for their stupidity?   Or when you hear about Reverend Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptists anti-gay demonstrators, who hasn't ever
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Bender's blog

Mistakes I'm making as I write this

I'm unlucky in love. Don't feel sorry for me--it's by and large my own fault. But it still sucks.   There's that old fable about a dog that, by some stroke of luck, found a piece of meat and was carrying it home to eat it. When he crossed a river, he mistook his own reflection for another dog with a better treat, and opened his mouth to bark at the other dog. He dropped his own meat into the river, and for all that greed and dissatisfaction was left with nothing. 6-year-olds the world over hav
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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

It is with GREAT pleasure, that I announce our newest Hosted Author - Baby Q's dad! (erm - I guess he also goes by Quonus10). I am personally a big fan of his work, especially Second Shot and The Trial of Jordan Colmar - if you haven't read his stuff yet, I encourage you to give it a try.   Also, a big last minute reminder that entries for the Poetry Anthology need to be to Lugh by April 17 - that's just two days from now.   So, we've had a pretty good week, starting with a review of Duncan
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