Most of you don't remember me when I used to write and beta on a regular basis. However, since the majority of my friends and family don't know much about me - and I'm trying to figure out a delicate balance between keeping my mother happy by not blasting "my unacceptable lifestyle" (trust me, this is a separate issue way too complicated for one single blog post) and keeping my boyfriend happy - I wrote a section of this as a Facebook note, and promptly deleted before posting.
Two years ago,
Yeah, I just placed my story to On Hold status for now. I haven't worked on it in over a year and a half, and I need to revisit the concept and work around that damn catch 22 in the story I've never really been able to work out. It has been a wild year and a half though.
I am very thankful for Sara and Maria for helping me through the initial processes of my story. I don't think I would have published the story and kept writing without them constantly pushing me to do so.
The story
https://www.gayauthors.org/story/fleetingrainbows/asinglepromise
I just finished reading "A Single Promise" yesterday. It look longer than usual to read this story, since work's been crazy busy I haven't had the time to dedicate to reading much.
So I wanted to start off by saying that the dialog in the story was beautifully written. The emotions tied into the conversational dialog between characters were vivid enough that I could picture actors and actresses to be able to pick it up a
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
So Microsoft finally decided to come out with that "Microsoft Security Essentials" software... I decided to give it a try and see what I could complain about it... lol
I was kind of bitching at my awesome desktop for taking over 36 hours to scan my computer, but then I found out why:
Yeah... Remind me to toss some of that out...
So I'm still stuck on Chapter 3 right now... it's been officially 3 months since Chapter 2 came out and I'm no closer to finding a solution that I was 3 months ago... which sucks... I know...
So in order to keep myself interested in the story, here's a "poll"... do you think I should write an additional "character building" chapter with Jack and Dr. Browning before the good stuff begins? I'm thinking that it'd gauge interest in the plot and potentially expose details about Jack that could p
Cailen and I both made one coincidentally... for me. So... which one looks better? I like both, but mine seems a bit too plain... which is why I like Cailen's a lot. What do you think?
I don't think I'll ever be as good as Cailen with his photoshop skills... lol I'm just not an artsy kinda guy I guess...
Cailen's:
Mine: <----- CLICK TO ENLARGE
If you haven't noticed, I don't publish who I am on here. There's a reason for that. I'm not out and I frankly have no interest to be out right now. I'm not in denial with myself, I just cannot afford to be out. In terms of my personal priorities, if it means I have a roof over my head while I bounce around trying to pay off my student loans mean that I can't live my life openly as I wish, so be it.
Some of you know me on GA via Chat. I am able to truly be myself in the chat most of t
Dear Authors,
Please fix your word usage errors. Grammar Nazis worldwide are cringing at your every mistake.
Sincerely,
Not German
After browsing through "Dear blank, please blank." I decided it was time to make a request here.
Please know the difference between "your" and "you're", "than" and "then", etc. If you need help, we have wonderful editors who will be glad to help you. Please, don't butcher your works of art by bad grammar. That's what this community is all abo
So Frosty sent me a review of my first chapter of my new story I'm writing. I have to say in some respects I'm a bit garbled with what I want to present, when I want to present it, and how I should do it - well.
I'm not trying to put down any of the authors I've had immense pleasure of reading through their works. However, I believe I like to keep my stories a bit more grounded, a little less extraordinary, with a bit more real-life scenarios - where not only lives are at stake, but money,
I need to stop lying to myself. I think I started to enjoy Carl DaVinci's short stories that I decided to give it another go.
Instead of writing I read The Script between last night and this morning, and I loved the story. I think it is wonderful how people can meet in all sorts of circumstances, however unlikely, and come together despite their respective hardships and impasses.
Carl DaVinci's The Script is a Hollywood-based drama when a teen star takes a starring role in an upcoming
I lied, in an effort to sneak myself a preview of what Frosty recommended to me, I decided to read the first chapter of You and Me by Carl DaVinci and then by the time 6AM rolled around I had finished the last chapter and I saw the sun peaking out as it started to burn off the overcast and fog from overnight. As I sit here typing, I feel groggy, yet comforted at yet another author surprises me with a super short but super powerful story.
to Frosty for recommending yet another amazing story
So, I finally got a chance to finish the entire Working It Out saga. I really enjoy the last novel, as a shift from the main characters began to occur starting from Book 2, and extended even more so in Book 3. A lot more emphasis was placed on the extended family members, even pursuing the majority of some of the chapters on these side characters instead of just focusing on Mike and Matt. This was an interesting approach since I've always commented on some of the other works I've read here on
Working It Out Book 2 was a great read - and excitingly picks up right off from where Book 1 ended, which some authors sometimes decide to move the timeline forward quite a bit to introduce enough uncertainty to introduce new characters, new settings, and new conflicts without opening up questions to why the conflicts did not occur in the previous novel. Don did a spectacular job in making sure that the plot progressed just as quickly as Book 1.
I loved the plot, and it gave me the long awa
Working It Out by Don Hanratty's a great, fast paced novel that took me through a series of roller coasters along the ride. I just finished Book 1 (of 3) and I must say it was a great novel. I have to admit that the novel's speed was a bit too quick for me, as in before I could get any time to really realize what's going in the surroundings, the scene changes and you're shocked by the next series of events that happen in the plot. There is no "plateau" where things just randomly settle down f
But I want to start writing some alternative endings to certain stories I've read - not anyone in particular... just go along and see what I can come up with. Anyone got pointers on where I should go to start posting chapters when I'm ready?
Everybody's Wounded, by Duncan Ryder, is an award winning story here on GA.
Link: http://duncanryder.g...org/stories.php
This story was a very complicated yet refreshing love story - yet to describe the story with mere words like intimate, intense, shocking... all just sounds too bland to properly give a description as to the powerfulness of how DR presented the novel.
I think Duncan Ryder has brought me outside of the realm of dkstories finally and I think I'm going to begin moving
I've read 28 chapters of Dawn of Tears and so far I've loved it as much as I've loved the first Do Over novel.
Although I really would have liked the specifics to be a little more consistent along the storyline, from simple things like calling Dylan's jet first a 797 and then a 787 to more important details along the plot, I really would had a better time reading if the story text was better edited and reviewed.
I wonder if people could help Dan edit these stories and republish them?
These are the dkstories stories I've finished, reading, or waiting to read.
Dreams of Humanity
Dreams of a Father
The Beard
The Bully
Dawn of Tears (Completed 17JAN2011)
Goon
Do Over
Do Over Redux
Doing It Right
Let's Do It
Rich Boy: Awakening
Rich Boy 2: Growing Pains
Rider's Pride (Not going to read until I get a chance to read the other book first)
The Wreckers (No longer offered on the LuLu market...)
dkstories's stories may be fou
