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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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Billy Martin's Blog

The upcoming vote for GA Readers Choice Awards

I want to make one thing clear to everyone, I was honored to just be nominated, further honored to have made the cut. Thank you to everyone involved. However, all four other stories nominated in the New Author Category, deserves votes. Each of them have been at this a lot longer than I have, and deserve your recognition.   That's not to say I don't think Trials and Tribulations is any good, with the help I've received, I do think it is a good story. KC, Sean, Old Bob and Naptowngirl have been
Enoch

Enoch

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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up...

Greetings on this Superbowl Sunday from your friendly blogging team. This week has been a hoot! It started off by dragging out an old favorite by DomLuka:   Desert Dropping   You know, I really wish more of you would review these stories... make an author feel appreciated. Anyway, our reviewer really did just that. And got quite a bit of feedback. Good job!   Of course that was just Monday, we still have a whole week to look back on. Tuesday was a peek at the psychology of the
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Methodwriter85's Blog

Day 10, Day 11, Day 12

Day 10- February 2nd   I found a letter from the War Department of the United States, dating from 1917 or 1918, which gave a list of desirable books for which to start a camp library. That would explain so much about why George Watson had so many different books, and often in duplicate.   I also found a manual on physical training. It was interesting to see what the physical training standards were for the army in the 1910's- it seemed to be mostly focused on calistenics, swimming, and gymna
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Wayne's Updates

Okay, I'm human, I admit it

We all like to think we are superhuman. Nothing bad can happen to me. When things go wrong I can handle it.   Okay, I'm old, I definitely know better but doesn't mean I don't delude myself on occasion.   I can't pick up the pieces as they are shattered. I can't help everyone. I can't do it all. I'm human. I bend and if I am not careful I will break.   Today showed me I am not as young as I use to be. Moved wrong and I pulled something in my back. I've found a few new words I didn't know as
comicfan

comicfan

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The River Song

Well, we had a plan....

Well, as many of you know, we had this plan. It was wonderful. I was gonna save up a nice amount of money, and on the 31st August this year, move to the Czech Republic to be with Paya. Its been month's in preparation already - discussions, plans, ideas - but late last week, in the space of three days everything changed. And it changed with a single email...   I was contacted by a recruiter who asked me if I would consider work in London. Apparently my areas of expertise have become more s
Westie

Westie

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Wayne's Updates

Bits and Pieces

Alright anyone who knows me, knows I have no problem trying to help others if I can. It was part of the reason I had originally become a teacher, to help others learn and enjoy what I loved. Trust me, this is just a round about way to get to a few subjects.   First up - The Prompts. I enjoy creating them so much. I hope they inspire others to take a chance and just have fun with them. They shouldn't be a problem. The other thing is you should never feel like you are doing wrong because the pro
comicfan

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JC's Writing Blog

Wow its been a while since I updated here.

Hello everyone!   Its been a while since i updated my writing blog.   I moved to university in September so I haven't had that much time to write.   I have 'finished' Womans Game 2, i'm currently working through Cia's comments and i've kind of re-created the idea of the story in Book 2. I'm making it way more Post Modernist than originally planned but it is good   Womans Game 2 currently stands at: 23600 so i'm aiming for around 23000 so the whole series is 54,500 words long This makes
Johnathan Colourfield

Johnathan Colourfield

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Writing World

Writing Prompts #108 & #109

This week Comicfan brings us two new prompts: Prompt 108 – Creative Cue – List of words Use the following words in a short story: obituary, ice cream, red dress, fish, and apartment. and Prompt 109 – Creative Cue – Poetry Write a poem about your favorite person. Try to descriptive and give life to the person you are writing about. The poem can take any from a series of haikus, to free form, to an established pattern. In response to Prompt #107....   Lifetime Gu
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Renee's News

New Story & Look At The Past

I have currently started to work on the final book in the Encounter's series. Everlasting Encounters should be coming out in the near future, but it has raised some issues with the previous books in the series.   It's amazing how quickly we grow as authors. I for one am always learning new things and sometimes when I go back and look at what I have written in the past, I can't help but cringe. I know that I have said that I eventually plan to revise Eternity as well as a couple of other sto
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens

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Writing World

Writing Tip: Physical Description

While poking around in the forums the other day I found myself in the Editor's forum looking at a thread concerning physical descriptions and how authors handle writing them. It seemed the biggest concern was how to get the info across without the story sounding like something plucked from the Nifty's "First Time" collection. I'm not going to repeat all the discussion from there to here, if you are an author, you should read it. If you are a new author... please read it. What I am going to
Lugh

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Viv's Blog

It Weighs Less When It's Not In My Chest...

Once upon a time… That’s how these things start, right? The line that starts the whole story. After that, nothing else even matters but getting to the happily ever after. I used to think I could see mine, out there on the horizon, but each time I think I’ve got it in my sights, something happens that shows me differently.     The settings and circumstances change, characters come and go, and there’s plenty of romance and drama to make it interesting. Even if you could predict how it ended, it
viv

viv

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Methodwriter85's Blog

Internship Day 7, 8, 9

Day 7 January 27th   I finished sorting through Box 8. Now I'm working on Box 10.   Day 8 January 31st   Going through Box 10, I found a manual for young officers. It was from 1907. I know that George Watson was born in 1881, which means he would have been about 26 years old when he got that manual, and presumably became an officer in the army. It was interesting to think about that- I'm 26 years old, and I just can't even imagine what it would be like to have that kind of responsibility a
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Gay Authors News

What's New?

So... What's new? Today we have two new stories for you to take a look at... Pitch Perfect by Intune and Red Light by Robyn. So, go, take a look and review, review, review!   Pitch Perfect by intune   reviewed by EmDee   After reading the first chapter of Pitch Perfect by intune, I was instantly hooked. In fact, I knew even before I finished reading all of the currently posted 10 chapters that I would be writing this review for the GA News Blog.   Pitch Perfect is an in progre
Lugh

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Writing World

Writing Tip: Out Of The Ooze

Well, yesterday was an interesting day... I would like to go on record as saying I did write today's tip. Take it with the intended humor is it written with... Out of the Ooze by Lugh Please understand that what I am about to share with you is a personal experience. It is not based on any research nor is it scientifically sound; take it with a grain of salt. Better yet, save the salt, you may very well need it when you get to ‘The End’. I have heard authors speak repeatedly aga
Lugh

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Wayne's Updates

Been doing some reading ...

I know, I am on a writer's website so what is surprising about doing some reading? Well nothing really. Just that lately between my own writing, my beta work for various authors, my job, and something I joking refer to as my life, well I haven't been reading and commenting as I would like to on people's work.   However, I have also been creating the prompts. I take that serious and every time someone either puts it on the prompt page or adds a connection to it in one of their pages I go and re
comicfan

comicfan

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Nephylim's Blog

INTERVIEW WITH SILVER

So, you all know I've stared myself a blog   nephylim-author.blogspot. com   I have been interviewing fellow authors and today a friend gave me the idea of interviewing characters.   Once the idea was in my head, I found that I got really excited at the thought of interviewing Silver. I would love to get to know him better and the thought of having some further glimpses inside that crazy head of his it uber intrigueing.   BUT... here's the rub.   I am only going to do it, if someone is
Nephylim

Nephylim

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Strife and Harmony

Beware of System Check

I had to have my cousin restore my computer to factory settings because of a dreadful piece of malware called System Check. If I ever find out who made that shit, I'm going to rip off his god damn balls. Yes, the following link IS safe. It talks about removing the damn thing. http://www.spywarevoid.com/remove-system-check-pop-ups.html
Tiger

Tiger

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Gay Authors News

Featured Story: Desert Dropping

Ha! Time to rile up all the lazy Domaholics on the site. This week's featured story is by their missing favorite author Dom Luka, which of course everyone wants out of hiding... well everyone that is except maybe our reviewer.... Desert Dropping by DomLuka published on GA December 27th, 2010. 36 chapters, 389,678 words.   It was a tried and true—if overused—premise. The protagonist, a typical closeted teenager named Rory, is thrust into a new environment and famil
Lugh

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Gay Authors News

Weekly Wrap Up!

Whew! What a week two. I hope everyone took the time to go check out our Featured Story this week: From Behind Those Eyes by Viv   And while you were out there looking, I hope you stopped by all the other great stories we talked about on Wednesday: Quonus10's Second Shot and The Trial of Jordan Colmar and Dee's story, Low Down and Out. And on Friday we found a poem by JOeKEool in the Prompts and some people learned that the prompts aren't just "silly little things" any more but real
Lugh

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jamessavik's Blog

Red Tails

I went to see Red Tails Saturday and was impressed by what I saw.   George Lucas has made an excellent film that does a very good job of telling the story of the Tuskegee Airmen without trying to rewrite history.   The Tuskegee Airmen were all college educated men who participated in the Army Air Corps great experiment: could black men perform as pilots? They answered that question with a resounding yes.   There was a great deal the film actually left out. Operation Shingle- the units "Big
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Gay Authors News

Grab Bag!

Today we have an author interview with Mark Arbour. Many of you know his stories, but do you know anything about him and how or why he started writing them? Hopefully Marzipan’s interview will shed some light on this subject for us all. but first... an announcement... Today is the last day for the Reader's Choice Award Nominations. Get yours in. Now on to the interview -- I’m going to start with an easy question. You are hugely popular author in GA. What do you think appeals in
Lugh

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Writing World

Writing Prompts #106 & #107

Time to go haunt Comicfan and see what he can drag out of the inspiration file for this week. Seems we have two new challenges. One is a Point of View challenge -- those are always interesting -- and one has the goal of animating an inanimate object. You've got a week. Make life interesting. Prompt 106 – Cue – The Fight Remember the last argument you got into? Change it into a story about two other people. The challenge is to tell the story from the other person’s point of view
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