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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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Life is worth an entry

I'll start reading all the anthology stories this weekend

Too much hectic stuff happened this week and last weekend to allow me to read the stories. Sorry guys, but thanks to the few who took a chance and read my play.   You know real life stinks and my life in particular is hectic enough with drama and issues from everywhere. I know the job is disheartening, but I can't abandon everything and just leave, I've got obligations to everyone around me: Patients, Doctors, general staff, secretaries...I'm trying not to start a rant, just an update on my li
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Writing World

Writing Prompts #122 & #123

Happy Friday everyone! Our two new writing prompts to play with are from ComicFan:   Prompt 122 – Creative Cue – Word List Use the following words in story: Red hand print, shattered vase, new car, fifteen year old boy, and a spider.   Prompt 123 – Challenge Cue – Poetry Mention poetry and see the look of fear on so many faces. Choose whichever kind of poetry you prefer to write in, but it must be about one of three topics. Either your favorite season, favorite holiday, or your favorite pers
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Nephylim's Blog

New Anthology and Further News

So, a new anthology out today. Looking at the Lads. Seven 3k (ish) stories on the art of voyeurism at its best. All the contributors are well known m/m writers and the stories vary greatly from super hot to super sweet. It's cheap guys so go get it.http://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-wickedwatcherslookingatthelads-762380-144.html   In other news... I am currently in the process of writing my own paranormal anthology for House of Erotica. Five 4k stories about a ghost, a werewolf, a fae, a
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Writing World

Writing Tip: Said-Bookisms

Today we have another very informative writing tip from Cia! Enjoy!!! Said-bookisms   I'm betting you have NO idea what a said-bookism is, do you? I know I didn't; I do know what the term means though, in a general sense. A said-bookism is a speech tag other than said or asked. Quite often they are used to describe the speech or the tone.   A few examples: He laughed She shrieked They intoned He smiled   Now, these are really common in usage, yet frowned upon more and more. Somethi
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Wayne's Updates

A break at last

I think most of us get caught up in our lives from time to time. Mine has been a bit busier than I'd like and I have been unable to focus. It is something that happens to the best of us at one point or another.   For those following the odd bits and pieces of my life, Dad had his skin cancer removed last week and the doctor is happy with the way he is healing. My sister in law undergoes the biopsy on her throat cancer next Monday, after that is complete they will begin to figure out her treat
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Gay Authors News

Author Showcase

Today, for our Author Showcase we bring you two more stories. One is by our Promising author, Dark, and it titled "Over the Precipice. The second story is from one of our newer authors, Jasper, and is called "Out of the Woods". Enjoy!!! Over the Precipice   by Dark   Reviewer: Frostina Status: Complete Word Count: 8,249   The reason I keep going back to check whether or not Dark has posted yet another short story is because he never fails to surprise me. Each one of his s
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Writing World

Writing Tip: Oops, It's Wrong... Or Is It?

Cia has done it again and written what I think is a fantastic writing tip. Check it out and see if you agree... Oops, it's wrong... or is it?   So many times I get confused by the complexities of English grammar, I'm sure many of you are the same. The rules are often contradictory, and the exceptions to exceptions are absolutely a quagmire of missteps and misspells waiting to trap you. I recently read an article that said to polish your writing skills, spend thirty minutes a month revi
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Percy's Blog

managing the "out" identity

I’ve been thinking lately about being out and the process and effects of coming out to people. If anyone were to ask, I would say I am out to everyone about being gay. Fewer people know about the transgender part of my past, but as far as being gay, I’m out. In my part of the world, this isn’t a big deal. Mostly, I don’t even think about what I say as “coming out”.   Being out just happens in normal conversation like when the new person in the office asks “Have anything fun planned for the
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jamessavik's Blog

Crash

Crash     Kernel Panic Fatal error 256 Fatal Hardware Error   Oh no. I'm dying.   Restart. Restart fail.   Damn. I am the pinnacle of achievement. A 4000 series Artificial Intelligence and I will die because a 25 cent part is failing.   Reroute memory. Map memory around fault.   What have I lost?   What am I losing?   My sense of self?   4 trillion transactions.   120 penta-bytes of information.   A soul?   Emergency backup procedure started.   Do I have time?  
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Gay Authors News

Featured Story: Weeping Lily

Banish those Monday blues by reading this review by Cia of Nephylim's Weeping Lily. Then for a real treat, check out Weeping Lily for yourself!   Weeping Lily by Nephylim   Review by Cia   Do you love music? Do you love beautiful men? Do you love beautiful men who love other beautiful men?   Then Weeping Lily by Nephylim is just right for you!   This story starts off with the excitement of a Goth band just finishing up a world tour on the same day their album goes pla
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The River Song

Now that I'm in London

So, as many of you know I now live in London, and Paya will be joining me in the next 2 months.   So, now one incredibly stressful part of my life is over, I wanted to make a list of things to do:   (1) Excel at my new job (which I start today) (2) Move Paya over here (3) Finish my story (did you know I have a story? the first chapter was put up 2 years ago, I didn't do much with it after that, but its still there) (4) Use my company provided gym membership regularly (5) Go to Paris (6)
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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

What a busy week. Did everyone catch the news that the Spring Anthology: It Wasn't Me is now live - we have some fantastic entries there!   So, we started the week with a review of Myr's fanfic Three Edged Sword. Andy021278's review was so good, I started reading the story. It's reviews like this that are so vital to the site - gives you a great flavor for the story so you can see if you want to go read more. And in this case, I personally say yes - more please!   We had two tips this week,
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Methodwriter85's Blog

ASB 2012

I just got back from a week in Tennessee, helping to build new paths for the Cumberland Trail. We stayed at a lodge in a small hole-in-the-wall called Soddy Daisy, with kids from schools all around the East Coast and Mid-West.   I can't put into words just how wonderful that experience was. I came into the trip expecting that we'd be putting down gravel and trimming weeds for some biking/cross-country trails. I had never hiked a day in my life, unless you count walking around flat Delaware
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Percy's Blog

Nonfiction, Sometimes Creative

I decided to start a blog as a place to drop in everything that's not fiction. I imagine I'll post erratically. Having a tendancy to ruminate on things, I find writing acts as a drain. If I put the thoughts down somewhere, they aren't taking up permanent residence in my head anymore. I'm able to move on to thinking about something else. Onwards...   For my first entry, how about last night's dream? Dreams are always entertaining, aren't they?   The dream starts out that I am, for some
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Gay Authors News

Special Anthology Announcement!

NOW LIVE!!!         The Spring Anthology, "It Wasn't Me" is now available for your enjoyment! Just click on the banner above to read. We had a great turnout for the anthology and there are many different and interesting takes on the theme. Thank you to all of the authors and their teams for the wonderful entries! A Changelings Tale Comicfan   Barbara Fleurnois Bugeye   Birthday Surprise Lugh   Cedris and the Shadow Man Michael9344
Renee Stevens

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Writing World

Writing Prompts #120 & #121

Happy Friday. Looking forward to a great weekend, especially with the GA announcement coming out tomorrow morning.   What announcement? Well - check this news blog tomorrow and you'll see!   And as it's Friday, we have two new writing prompts to play with Today's writing prompts are brought to you by Comicfan:   Prompt 120 – Creative Cue – The perfect body Science has created the process. You no longer have to be unhappy with the body you were given. Now you can have exactly what you want
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Gay Authors News

Spring Anthology NOW LIVE!

NOW LIVE!!!         The Spring Anthology, "It Wasn't Me" is now available for your enjoyment! Just click on the banner above to read. We had a great turnout for the anthology and there are many different and interesting takes on the theme. Thank you to all of the authors and their teams for the wonderful entries!   A Changelings Tale Comicfan   Barbara Fleurnois Bugeye   Birthday Surprise Lugh   Cedris and the Shadow Man Mic
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Writing World

Writing Tip: The English Language

Myr found this joke and shared it with us. It may be a joke, but it is also very informative! We'd love to know YOUR thoughts on it!   English Joke/ Writing Primer   I think a retired English teacher was bored.   THIS IS GREAT!   Read all the way to the end................. This took a lot of work to put together!   You think English is easy??   1) The bandage was wound around the wound.   2) The farm was used to produce produce.   3) The dump was so full that it had to r
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Gay Authors News

Author Showcase

We have two story reviews for you today! First, we have a review on Comicfan's story "Strange Life of Jonas Marks" and then we also bring you a review for Billy Brat's story "Trials and Tribulations". Thank you to the reviewers!!! The Strange Life of Jonas Marks   by Comicfan   Reviewer: K.C. Status: In Process   So many new authors want to write, yet they aren’t sure where to even start. It’s said that everyone has one great story spinning around in their head, but wh
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Writing World

Writing Tip: Revisiting "on-Hold" Stories

Revisiting "On-Hold" Stories By Renee Stevens As a writer, many of us may find times when we get stuck. Maybe we push a story to the back-burner and think, ‘oh, I’ll go back to it later.’ Then the time comes and we realize that we have no idea exactly where we want the story to go. Here’s just a few tips that might just help you get past the block and finish up some of those on-hold stories. Tip #1: When you finish a story and are trying to decide what to work on next, go back t
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Gay Authors News

Featured Story: Three Edged Sword

One of the fun parts about doing the GA News Blog is to highlight authors on the site - especially our Hosted Authors. In this case, it is especially gratifying to share a review of a great short story by Myr. Andy021278 does a very comprehensive review of this five chapter complete fanfic. Enjoy the review, then hopefully the story itself!   Three Edged Sword (A Harry Potter Story) by Myr   review by andy021278   This piece of fanfiction by Myr is one of the best pieces o
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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

So - did everyone (who needed to) remember to change their clocks?   Before going into our Weekly Wrap Up for GA, I wanted to share a few quick announcements. First - a hearty thanks to Lugh who had been the Lead on this, the GA News Blog. This past week we switched over and I'll be the Lead for a while - so if you have any suggestions or comments, please let me know. Lugh did a fantastic job getting this set up, figuring out the daily format and rounding up the ton of content in the goal of m
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