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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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Reset, Reload, Redo

Gracious it's been a while.

Can't believe it's been like six weeks since I last posted here. Guess the old adage that no news is good news is apt.   There is nothing exciting or annoying to report on the baby front. The surrogate is doing well. She had her last ultra sound two weeks ago and everything looks good. She goes back on Monday and then every two weeks until she, the baby, is born. Then again, we are at week 32 so that means only about 3-4 visits - not too bad.   Right now work seems to be the biggest iss
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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Wayne's Updates

Books in My Private Library

I have an addiction. It is one I feed as slowly as possible. I collect books, and I guess it is going to happen because I am an English major. I will admit I am not a snob. I don't have countless collections of Shakespeare, or the complete collection of the Bronte sister's works. I have some of them and some of all the authors I read while taking my courses. Now some of those have become favorites but that isn't the bulk of my private library. Fantasy novels are my down fall. Yes, I will admi
comicfan

comicfan

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Wayne's Updates

Postcards

Okay, I admit it. I collect postcards. No I don't mean I go out and buy them and put them in books. No, I don't go out and buy old postcards that others have written. What I do collect is postcards from friends. When people go away they often want to bring home some part of their experience to share with the people they left behind. Seems everyone takes pictures, buys shirts, or some other little thing that eventually gets lost among your belongings. However, when friends go away I ask for one t
comicfan

comicfan

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Douw's Blog

Just... Not there

Well it's been a wile sins i have posted a blog entry...   I'm tired and it's not because it has been a tiring day, no mostly my mind is tired of thinking tired of dreaming tired of dreaming of hoping.   Everything and nothing has changed... i'm living with my mother a now, ya i know but it's better here really it is she has changed a lot i don't know how she came to be enlightened but she has and i don't want to ask...   How did i come to be here... Well one day i was chatting with a fr
Douw

Douw

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Wayne's Updates

Interviews and stupidity

Okay so there was an opening at my store for my old position of Operations Senior. I had done that job for four years before I had to move down to Long Island. Naturally there were no openings for it when I came here so I went into customer service where I had maxed out on the pay.There is nothing like being told you do your job very well, in fact you get a perfect score, but you can't have a raise because you are paid more than that position now. Well yesterday the boss mentioned to me that he
comicfan

comicfan

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Rising towards reinvention

First date: how far am I willing to go?

We all have heard about and pondered —or maybe later regretted not pondering enough— the traditional question: How far should one go on a first date?   You know... the awkward first date, when you want to show the guy that you like him without appearing too forward / clingy / horny. You want to find the right balance that will demonstrate both interest and respect, that will keep him focused on you while leaving all options open on the scale of "How about another date one of these days?" to "W
Bleu

Bleu

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Fixing My Destiny

One particular song's stuck in my head - cuz it's awesome

The Left is a pretty cool band from Vancouver apparently... hooked on their song right now... it's playing on repeat.   lyrics slow wandering the city blocks I know you by the way you walk and white knuckled searching the atmosphere but I won’t find you cause you’re not here   I’ll be falling through the cracks for you and always coming back to pull you through   if the rain starts to fall you’ll be safe in my arms I’ll carry you and the waves when they crash you’ll be safe on my back I
J.T.

J.T.

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Wayne's Updates

Accident's Happen and other works

I have been asked if I am finishing Charlie or if I have just forgotten about the story. The truth is chapter 21 is done and I am working on chapter 22. I do apologize for not having 21 posted yet. My beta and my editor are currently on vacation. While both have said I should send my work to them and they will work on them, I won't do that. A vacation is just that. A break from your normal work load and I would like them to focus on what they are doing and enjoy it. I am not sure if those who
comicfan

comicfan

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Melancholy ... the broken staff of life

Oh, bother . . . . v. 2.0

Unless something very important occurs tomorrow, my life as I now know it will be seriously jeopardized.   It's not life threatening, but it will be a big bother; and, I'm not in the mood for getting screwed when I didn't, technically, do anything to earn this kind of treatment.   Oh, if something doesn't occur, I may be unable to get online for sometime.   Oh, and I think I'm going to stay here in Texas, maybe get an apartment over towards Arlington or Grand Prairie, or maybe even as far
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

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Wayne's Updates

My Scale - Friend or Foe?

I've made no secret of the fact that I joined Weight Watchers. It has been six weeks now and after a gain last week it was back to a loss this week. I think I can accept it all. Weight has been an issue for me for years, going back to high school. Through the younger grades I was one of those lean little kids everyone liked to pick on. I was average height but thin and wiry. I never really learned to fight but I could run like the wind back then. High school came and personal disasters had
comicfan

comicfan

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Wayne's Updates

A Day at the Duck

Okay, so today was suppose to be my day off. I had things I wanted to get done. One of those included the opportunity to go out to Flanders and pick up something that was uniquely from Long Island for two people on the site who have come to mean a lot to me. I am a reasonably intelligent person so it shouldn't be that hard right? There is a reason why my nickname is "Charlie Brown". Like my character, Charlie Wagner, oh did I just give a hint where his name came from, I have no luck at all. B
comicfan

comicfan

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JC's Writing Blog

Lessons from Lugh :) YAY :P Fourth Entry :)

Hello everyone   I haven't done much writing lately because i've been taking a lesson from Lugh   He's been teaching me about Planning and Plotting All very good   I was very heavy on planning spending a third of the text planning which is stupid.   But now I use only around 10% to plan something so YAY   Very proud of myself.   I have my amazing beta's still wandering through my work They work wonders <3   From Lugh's writing lesson i have two new stories that i've devel
Johnathan Colourfield

Johnathan Colourfield

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jamessavik's Blog

The Cure - III

Carter Tower Houston, Tx   Jason Carter was an empire builder. From his 25th story penthouse office window, the cities of Houston and Baytown sprawled out below him as far as a man could see. As a young man of thirty he had taken moribund drilling company and through smart moves and indescribable effort had turned it into the fourth largest oil field services company in the world. All of the big oil companies did business with Carter Consolidated.   His rigs did the drilling, his pipes did
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Myr's Corner

A Little Experiment

We have been thinking of several different ways to reduce the complicated nature of the forums. Right now, we have a forum for every Hosted and Promising Author. That means there are a TON of forums. This makes the site a little overwhelming for new users.   We thought about and hit upon the idea of using the blogs for handling Author interaction. As part of this, of course, we'd need a couple of people in addition to the author that would post to the blog. That's easily handled here.
Myr

Myr in Business

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Life is worth an entry

Can't feel like writing for some reason

My heart is no longer in my stories; I don't know why.   It's like I know the words to write, but not the words to speak to my soul. When I use to write, I felt for my characters and wanted to give them a world to live in, but now, I don't feel anything.   My heart is growing dimmer and I don't know why, except perhaps my life has become so cold from work.
W_L

W_L

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Methodwriter85's Blog

Civic Pride

Okay, maybe I'm a dork, but I'm feeling particularly full of civic pride right now. I ran across the bid video for my college town, which won the 2011 Great American Main Street Reward.   Here's the video:     I like to call present-day Newark a Disney Town, USA. LOL. It's gotta a lot more generic over the years, but the tradeoff is that it's doing pretty well. (Thinks about Tet and that lovely little college town he has.)   Any people got some nice tourism videos to share of
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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jamessavik's Blog

The Cure - II

The Cure   When I arrived home Dr. Hess's information was still downloading. I walked across the street and picked up a sandwich for supper and when I got back the download had finished at a cool 27.3 Gigabytes. When I Unzipped the file, I found that I had sixty Gbytes of data meticulously organized into folders cross referenced with scanned images of the source material in the original German and Russian.   I scanned the list of patients that Dr. Hess had given me and then ran a backup rou
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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jamessavik's Blog

The Cure

The Cure     I didn't know what I expected to hear from Dr. Hess. Probably something I didn't want to hear or didn't want to know.   Sources can be like that sometimes: pure bullshit or gold. You can never really be sure until you see and hear what they've got.   Hess had been my history professor when I had been in the University. His specialty was the 20th century and he was great for background. More than once his insights had put my stories in the correct context and perspective. He
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Wry Wrambling of a Rebellious Rimbaud

The Art of Letting Go

The Art of Letting Go Written By: Jason Rimbaud   “You don’t have a f**king clue as to what you want much less what you want from me.”   Words, words, and more words designed to cause as much damage as possible without resorting to violence. Maybe I regret those words that were blurted out in the middle of a crowded restaurant the other night. You see, I think I might have come to a crossroad in my life and maybe this once, I’m taking the right path.   Work—where to start with that mess
Jason Rimbaud

Jason Rimbaud

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Rising towards reinvention

A look back at the past year

I thought today would be a good time to look at the past year. I came out to my parents exactly a year ago. So, even though I had previously come out to a handful of friends (including my future wife) in 1995, I take this date as a major step towards switching from the straight lifestyle I had maintained up to that point.   Overall this new episode in my personal life feels quite good. By this, I mean that I am happy with how I have changed over the past year and a half, acknowledging the g
Bleu

Bleu

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