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    Secret Author - Rewind!

    By Valkyrie

    The posting of this year's Secret Author Contest will be delayed indefinitely due to Cia going through a tragic family emergency.  Please respect her privacy and do not reach out to her and ask questions at this time, especially about when the SA stories will be published.  We apologize for the delay, as we know this is a highly-anticipated event each year, but family matters take precedence, especially during a time like this.  Thank you for your attention and understanding.  Stay tuned for mor
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Blogging is fun, even for overly organized people

I like blogging. I like just sitting around and thinking or chatting about a topic. Writing out my thoughts is nice because it helps me frame them in a more concrete way. It's nice just doing it in my head, but it's more fun and more satisfying on a computer screen...not on a piece of paper, physically writing sucks. Typing is nice though. Anyway, over the years I've grown thoroughly attached to this site and its members and whatever else I'm doing in my life I still enjoy a place to just sit an
AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

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Back from Europe

I just came back from across the Atlantic and I have a lot of new takes on ideas and thoughts.   European culture is something American too often ignore, sadly, but it is very integrated to everything that the US in terms of our customs and ideas are about. American so often neglect or reject anything to do with Europeans, but in reality, the US holds a lot of the traditions with Europeans in different areas. There's also a European issue about their own infrastructure problems that I have wit
W_L

W_L

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Emotions

Before I start this entry. I want to state, I didnt write it for sympathy. I'ts to stop me bottling it all up, and sending me on a downward spiral. So lets get this out. Most of you know my past, or some of it. I didnt get the socialising, interacting, childhood most of you got. I have no experience of sharing, for instance. I had nobody to share anything with. And cut off and isolated as I was and still am. I never got the opportunity to learn that stuff. I never stop learning. Now more th
Mark92

Mark92

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Death of a Computer

Okay, so the title pretty much says it all. The comupter has been acting strange then it stopped connecting to the internet. Most likely a week without it. SHH. I am already having withdrawal systems.   Unfortunately won't be posting the last chapter of Seeon until I ... Oh yeah have a computer again. I will be posting messages and I can respond to notes on the site, but I don't even want to admit how long it took me to type this out on my phone.   So I am sort of on a forced break. All that
comicfan

comicfan

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Writing Goals for 2012

Ok this is going to sound like a lot.... so bear with:     Finish editing Binding and publish. (current 18k words -- goal 22k words) Finish It Was A... series and publish (current 50k words -- goal 80k words) Edit/rewrite RT(current 30kish -- goal 60k), publish. Write from scratch TT project due "spring" 2012 goal 25k and publish. 2012 Poetry Anthology Theme (Due April 2012): Cracks In Time (three poems) 2012 Novella Antology Theme (Due July 2012): Secrets Can Kill (50k word draft, needs
Lugh

Lugh

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A Story is Loose

Okay, so I think every writer I know has one. It is that story you keep going back to you. Eventually you find someone who you will share part of it with but you just know it isn't done and you keep going back over it, and over it, and oh yeah, over it.   Meet my story, Fates of the World. I've only been writing it, for .... the last seven years. lol. It is one of those I write really hard on then stop go over it, rewrite it, toss out sections, begin again, finish it, toss out the ending, go
comicfan

comicfan

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Personal Questions

A boring look into the existence of Jason Rimbaud   In the forums of GayAuthors, in the Games and Humor thread, there is an entry called Personal Questions. Basically it’s a forum game where each person asks a personal question and the next person answers the question before asking his own personal question.   As I read through all the questions and the replies, I realized that there was numerous questions I would have love to have answered. So I thought it would be a good idea if I took s
Jason Rimbaud

Jason Rimbaud

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Christmas Gifts

Okay get ready cause this is going to be a quick but wild entry. First off I got a few gifts for holiday. Two of them were from people here on the site. It would be remiss of me to not to thank them, and I have. How can you go wrong with cook books or collections of comic books if you know me? They have good taste is all I can say.   The gifts from my family, well lets just say that they were lacking. Who would expect that the oddest gifts, the ones you don't know what to do with, you know you
comicfan

comicfan

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Why is life so distracting?

I know I can't finish this story before I will have to leave on vacation.   Maybe, I should not have started playing with my tablet, but I just can't resist a new piece of tech, especially one with such sleek and elegant form.   I will write again after I come back, who knows, maybe I will write a travel blog.   See you all next year
W_L

W_L

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I am writing, wohoo!

My creative juices are flowing along with coffee and urine, but it feels good.   I will attempt to write a story before I head off on vacation for fun. It will not be edited perfectly as I am not sure whether my favorite editor is around (Yes, Dannsar it's you, I did really like the way you edited my anthology story).   It will be a retro-fan fiction story that I got in my head recently after watching an old show.
W_L

W_L

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Christmas Break

Going to Texas to visit my brother and his family.   Going off line- unplugged, shudown, tuned out.   Finding a cat sitter was difficult. My cat beast has a well earned reputation of being meaner than I am.   Of course no trip to North Dallas would be complete without a visit to the Opera House in Denton. http://www.recycledbooks.com/   If you are ever there check it out.   As an aside, I'm not sure if I will be back. When your ignore list is becoming unmanageable, you either have to c
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Strange thing I noticed reading anthology

Did anyone take a notice at what stories seem to have the most length?   I know, I know, it doesn't matter how big the word count is, but how you write your story   I just noticed this by accident, but Bill W., Altimex, and W.L (me), were the three longest in word count.   Also, all three of us wrote science fiction stories, using different ideas and different points of view.   Just an observation
W_L

W_L

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Some Special Thank You's

First to Graeme, Lugh, and Cia who worked announcing, planning and helping to get the Anthology together. Their hard work makes the stuff us writers do look so much better. They start a year in advance with getting the ideas together, having people vote, and then work it over till it shines, before it is given to us writers to put our own spin on it. Then they create skins, double check the work, and make it all go together smoothly.   Then to not only those work behind the scene deciding who
comicfan

comicfan

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Anatomy of: A dreamer without a dream

https://www.gayauthors.org/story/w-l/adreamerwithoutadream/1   Well, it is now up for your reading pleasure.   Consider this my return to active writing again and science fiction. I have been holding back my ideas for a very long time and now I think I can explore them.   It is a social commentary brand of science fiction, so I hope it does not detract from readers. For all those who have waited, almost 2 years, for a new chapter in W.L's science fiction universe or meta-verse, this will b
W_L

W_L

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Missing Stuff

I never claimed to be on top of everything. However, this year I swore I wouldn't be behind the eight ball when it came to Christmas. I bought things all year long. In fact, i even bought a few things that I could use, just in case.   So now we skip ahead to today. i did my Weight Watchers meeting (I gained a pound but I consider that good considering what is happening in my life at the moment), went to get my license and found I still didn't bring enough stuff with me to prove who I am and ho
comicfan

comicfan

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“Having it Out with Melancholy”

"Pharmaceutical wonders are at work but I believe only in this moment of well-being. Unholy ghost, you are certain to come again. Coarse, mean, you’ll put your feet on the coffee table, lean back, and turn me into someone who can’t take the trouble to speak; someone who can’t sleep, or who does nothing but sleep; can’t read, or call for an appointment for help. There is nothing I can do against your coming. When I awake, I am still with thee."  
MidnightSecret

MidnightSecret

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Facing Facts

Alright tis the season and all that. I know I am not the only one dealing with the holidays and problems too.   This week I lost a friend in a senseless accident. Sort of makes you stop and look at things. Then while I am in that raw sort of state another friend is dealing with an impending death and I know it is making his life hard.   The day after the accident I get a message from someone I had become close to. Alright, someone I had fallen for if I am going to be honest with myself, and
comicfan

comicfan

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Trials and Tribulations

Chapter 9 will be posted soon.   I've been thinking of putting the story on hold until after the Holidays. But I thought it would be best to have some input from you the reader. Please let me know what you think about the story going on hold and what you think of the direction the story is headed in.   ~Billy~
Enoch

Enoch

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Writing Mothers

This is going to come as a surprise to some of you but I have trouble writing female characters. For some reason they fall flat and seem one deminsional. I especially have trouble writing mothers. Incase you didn't notice, Mrs. Hanover in It Was A... didn't have much screen time. There was a reason for this. None of the females did. Again, a reason for this. I really do suck at it.   Now I'm facing it again. I'm making this mother (who is french catholic) sound Italian.. or Jewish. I'
Lugh

Lugh

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because I forgot...

Ok for the record I forgot to do this...     yes I did meet my Nano writing goal.. barely.   go me.     I don't have the exact number on me at the moment, I'll update this entry with it later, but I wanted to close that issue...
Lugh

Lugh

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Hammerhead sneak peek

To: Shuttle Sierra442 From: Air-Flag, Hammerhead   Stand by your position to rendezvous with Alliance destroyer Summers.   Please acknowledge.   Crash looked at the transmission and said, “This might be interesting. Looks like my old buddy Rattler wants to talk. Send: We acknowledge and are standing by. Then send our position.”   As Danny was keying in the text transmission he said, “Who is Rattler”?   Crash laughed and said, “The second craziest pilot I've ever met. His name is Hiro
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Random Customer's who make me laugh

Customer: My emails not coming in. Me: Can you browse the web? Customer: I don't know let me check.... It says my radio is turned off. Me: Ok... It's a simple fix all we have to do is turn the radio on. Customer: No that won't work I'm not in my car. Me: (self control) No the radio in your phone.   Talking to customer's you would never believe what they say.
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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Into every life . . . .

For those who follow my gallery, I've basically been doing a picture blog of life with Lil' Q instead of writing it down. I'm taking to heart 'a picture is worth a thousand words' and just putting a bit of commentary to go with my 1000 word credit.   Yesterday I learned my mom has breast cancer. Good news is it is VERY small, they caught it very early. Bad news is, of the different types, hers is the most aggressive. Amidst all our good fortune, we got blindsided with this. I suspect str
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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