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    Weekly Wrap Up (Jan. 5 - Jan. 11)

    By wildone

    First a disclaimer, I'm tired and none of me editors are around to read the wrap up for me   I hate to say but the first couple of weeks have been terrible for our US friends and neighbours it seems. With LA burning down and the east and southeast getting blasted by ice and snow, I have to say I hope that all of them are okay  I'm sure there is other places too that are having strange and wakey weather too, like Friday we had an actual thunderstorm (rain) and a blizzard Saturday night. Noth
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Methodwriter85's Blog

Day 16, Day 17

Day 16, February 14th   I continued working on Box 5. I found a couple of pamplets that discussed gas warfare, as well as trench warefare. Those were the two big hallmarks of the Great War, because they were such new ways to fight in a way that still believed in the Romantic Napoleonic way of fighting. I wonder what it must have been like for the soldiers who read these pamplets to get a sense of what they were going to face.   I looked up the online orbituary of Colonel Richard W. Wa
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Writing World

Writing Tip: Research

Many of you noticed the little faux pas I made in the beginning of yesterday's blog. Oops. Well, I received some interesting feedback over it, including a shoutout to this little gem, so I thought I would share.... Cia on Research... So, I read an ebook recently. Big surprise there, lol. Several things jumped out at me as I read it that let me know that the writer was definitely NOT a resident of the state they set it in. Not only did they describe the summer weather as humid, whi
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Wayne's Updates

Judgemental much?

Wow. Been away for a mini vacation and am finally back. One of the reasons I have always loved getting on this site was the fact most people are respectful. I say most because I don't care where you go there are going to be a few who feel everyone is entitled to their opinion.   First off, I know I'm old. I came from the age of, if you don't have something nice to say, shut up and keep it to yourself. For me that means if I can't say something nice about something someone has written I just do
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Gay Authors News

Featured Story -- Shane

Monday, Monday... (sung in his best Beatles impression) Time for a new featured story, so this week we bring you Shane by Vlista. Vlista has been a member since (gasp) 2005 and a hosted author since about the same time, which makes him one of the "older" authors (although he's not really old himself). I will warn you right up front that Shane is not easy reading. It deals wtih subject matter that will be difficult for many people to read. However -- it is dealt with in such a way that is compell
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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up

Time to review for the kids in the back of the room!   Monday: Featured Hosted's Story -- Jack Scribe's It Stay's in Vegas. Tuesday: Mark Arbour shared how he gets his motivation Wednesday: More than a Crush by FleetingRainbow and Social Skills by KingdombytheSea Thursday: Renee Stevens shared how to create a credible villian Friday: Comicfan brought us two new prompts and new prompt responses to read Saturday: Our Blast From the Past was a 2006 interview with Vlista   Like the cliffnotes?
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Methodwriter85's Blog

Day 15

Day 15, Feburary 10th   I continued working on Box 5. One interesting find was a pamplet on what soldiers should do if they find a Boche gun, aka a German machine gun. I suppose that must have been quite a boon for Allied soldiers, as the pamplet seemed to suggest that finding a German machine gun was something desirable. I wonder if that means that they were state-of-the-art at the time.   Someone from a local newspaper came in today to take pictures of the clothing and items from a 1960's
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Gay Authors News

Blast From The Past!

Don't you just love these? I do. This is from the third edition of the newsletter in December 2006.   For those of you who don't know Vlista, or Vance, is one of our oldest Hosted Authors. He has been 'away' for a while and I miss him. So, here is a little insight into Vlista as an author and a person as well.   Member Interview-Vlista   GA: Hi Vance!   Vance: Hi GA! How are you?   GA: Great, how are you?   Vance: Not too bad!   GA: Ready to be interviewed?   Vance: Yep I think
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jamessavik's Blog

Going Metric

Way back in 8th grade, (or the late seventies) I did a whole semester on the Metric System (SI). We were told that its adoption was imminent. The jolly old US was the only major country still using the old English system.   I've been waiting ever since.   The metric system is so elegant. Grams, meters, liters. Milli, centi, deci, hecto, kilo, mega, giga, tera- it all makes so much sense. Factors of 10. It just doesn't get any better or easier than that.   Not so arbitrary as 16 ounces in a
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old bob's Blog

Finally a weekend to relax!

Last few weeks, my clients are agitated. February is the period of closings of accounts and tax preparation. It comes to bring order in the accounts, calculating depreciation and amortization and seek to to 'optimize' the results for paying the least possible tax.   Optimize: this means to declare less possible income and as much as possible expenses. It is said that statistics are a sophisticated form of lying. This statement also applies to the accounts of companies!   My clients have unde
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My kingdom by the sea

new boyfriend

currently he is a concept rather than a name.... (official name? Rolo - nicknames: little Rolito, champ, boobies, buddy, Roldy, Rollie, bro, oi wanka and i guess we yell HEY alot to make him stop doing things and NO but when we scold him gently he just thinks we really want to play and mouths like a gangster on the ankles) german shepherd/australian cattle dog mix, handful, but therapeutic. the sketchy guy who had the litter said it was 9 weeks, my roommates and i don't believe this, but we're
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Writing World

Writing Prompts #110 & #111

It's Friday! It's Friday! Whoot! Time for some jolly good reading. Our prompts this week are: Prompt 110 – Creative Cue – Creating Evil No one is just evil. They work from their own point of view. Your job is to create an “evil character” but you have to explain why they are that way. What happened to turn them into the person they are and why do they find that “evil” lifestyle so appealing? Prompt 111 – Creative Cue – The Quick Fix Everyone knows that there is no such thi
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Writing World

Writing Tip: Creating A Credible Villain

You know we all love a bad boy. We all love them better in our stories. But can we write them? Today's tip talks about... Creating a Credible Villain by Renee Stevens When creating a villain for your story, there are many things that need to be considered. Villains are not ALL bad. While they will have mostly flaws, they most likely will also have something about them that is good. This could be anything. A serial killer could also be a devoted family man. Your villain
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Gay Authors News

Whats New?

Here lately I've been asking a lot of people to write reviews. Not just people I interact with all the time, or even interact well with. I thought it was important to bring that up. I also thought it was important to bring up that in many instances, old news is put aside so new news can be brought to you the reader. And for that I would like to thank my reviewers... all of them. I also think it's important to point out that the blogs do not have a spellcheck function that I can find, so if you d
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The GA Law Blog

The Magical World of the 1% (Law Firm Edition)

In the finance world, we aspire to be hedge fund managers, masters of the universe of the the highest order.   In medicine, (I suppose) we aspire to run hospitals and become like the woman Dr. House likes.   In law...we aspire to be megafirm partners. Though money is pretty much capped and you don't get to be a master of the universe, you can still make it as a major-domo of a moderately-sized galaxy.   These are their stories. (all anecdotes taken from abovethelaw.com)   Disclaimer: I s
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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Oops

I wait for things to happen, like today when I broke the television not more than an hour after my son left for work. A number of weeks ago I bought him a 42 inch TV and thought now was a good time to get an HD box from infinity. The picture was good, I guess, but I’ve always had a problem with HD (if you look close enough the picture doesn’t seem to appear better). Whatever was on our television today certainly looked good. I guess it was inevitable that I was going to muck things up.   Thing
CarlHoliday

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Wayne's Updates

PAIN is a four letter word

Okay so pain is not something I am use to. I have been dealing with my back pain but then my diverticulitis acted up as well. Or I am assuming it did. The pain I have been dealing with has been more than I am use to and while I can usually ignore pain to a certain level this is enough to make me stop and drop to my knees. Needless to say tomorrow I doubt I am going to work. Most likely I will be calling the doctor and I won't be surprised if he sends me right to the hospital for tests. Can I tel
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;; " .MidnightSecret. " ;;

want free money?

‎'A well-known speaker started off his seminar holding up a $20.00 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, “ Who would like this $20 bill?” Hands started going up. He said, “I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this.”   He proceeded to crumple up the $20 dollar bill. He then asked, “Who still wants it…?” Still the hands were up in the air. “Well,” he replied, “What if I do this...?” And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with h
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Random Thought's

Turning 3 decades old

So my best friend who is a few months younger than me had to tell that I should tell people I am 3 decades old other than turning 30. To me saying 3 decades makes me sound real old, so I'm sticking with 30.   I had a goal I wanted to achieve by my birthday and it didn't happen.   I wanted to be moved out and in a different job position by then.   I've interviewed for jobs with Verizon outside of my current area. I interviewed for jobs in Colorado Springs, CO and King of Prussia, PA. Both j
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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Writing World

Writing Tip: Motivation

Motivation. What makes a writer start writing and keep at it day after day? I asked Mark to write something for the blog, and that was the topic he chose. So, let's all take a peek inside Mark's head and see what he thinks... Chronicles of Chronicles: How I wrote “Chronicles of An Academic Predator” I’ve learned that when someone really hot, really charming, really bitchy, and/or really sinister asks you to do something, it’s usually a good idea to agree, especially if they have
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Gay Authors News

Featured Story: It Stays In Vegas

Some stories are so good they need no introduction. That's how I feel about this one. So with no further hullabaloo I present --       It Stays in Vegas by Jack Scribe reviewed by Renee Stevens   I have read all of Jack Scribes “Vegas” series and a couple of them I have read multiple times. The first story in the series, It Stays In Vegas, introduces many of the main characters that we see throughout the series.   When Bob Harrington takes a trip to Las Vegas to celebrate h
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