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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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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
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Introducing Writing Resources: Practical Help for Better Stories

Every writer eventually runs into the same problem: you know something is not working, but you are not sure what to fix. Maybe the middle of the story feels slow. Maybe the romance is not landing. Maybe the characters are doing things, but the scenes still feel flat. Maybe the title, description, or tags are not helping the right readers find the story. That is why we are launching Writing Resources on Gay Authors. This new section is a growing library of practical writing article
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