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Featuring everything new and experienced authors need to develop creative and technical skills. Check out writing development articles, our Word of the Day, writing prompts, anthology opportunities and more!

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Write Toward the Next Wave

I asked AI to research genre trends in popular reading, as well as age demographics and general male preferences, to recommend ways to write that capture more of the current zeitgeist without forgetting our current audience.  The AI is familiar with genre trends on Gay Authors as well as our sites declared genre preferences and age. So the advice is geared towards appealing to existing audience and new audience as a way to attract interest. As always, you can write what you want. But if you
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Prompts

Secret Agent Prompts

In honor of the Secret Author Contest - don't forget to send your submissions to @Cia by July 16th - I'm going to feature 'secret' as the theme for today's prompts.  Remember not to reveal if you're participating in the SA contest.  Shhhh... it's secret!   PT Prompt #350 Your best friend thinks they're keeping a secret, but it's obvious to anyone who knows them.  How do you confront them about it?   PT Prompt #351 Tell the tale of how you discovered a secret s
Valkyrie

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Prompts

Dress Less

This must have been the motto last week. I saw colleagues wearing colorful lounge pants or skirts to work, who would have denied even owning such clothes the day before. The boss man walked around in shorts and Birkenstocks. And don’t forget the guy in the loose linen shirt, wide-brimmed hat, and dark shades. All I say is… You Can Leave Your Hat On. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdwIKTLP_3Q Ehem… To the prompts. PT Prompt #348   Someone sits in a café off a crowded str
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Writing Resources

The First Questions Every Story Needs to Answer

A story does not fail because the writer lacked ideas. More often, it fails because the reader cannot tell what kind of promise the story is making. This week’s Writing Resources focus on the first questions every story needs to answer before the plot gets complicated, the cast expands, or the chapters start stacking up. Who is this story about? What does that person want? What is standing in the way? Why should the reader care now? Those questions sound simple, but
Prompts

Life's a Zoo

When I was a kid, I loved going to the zoo and seeing the animals.  I still do, even though I haven't gone in ages.  Most people love the monkeys or the lions and tigers, but my favorite was always the capybara exhibit.  I think it's because it was astounding to me that rodents could get that big.  Plus, they're cute   Anyway, my local zoo just got a new capybara named Mozzarella.  And since life can be a bit chaotic, I thought today's prompts could use a zoo theme.  There's also the matter of t
Valkyrie

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