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    November CSR Discussion Day: Hustle by Talo Segura

    By Cia

    Wow, November already. With the year almost over, I wanted to keep featuring things that kept readers guessing and challenge the idea of the traditional reading genres and stories. What did you think of Hustle? Share your thoughts below, but first, the interview!! Chocolate or Vanilla? I have to cheat... both! What's your favorite room in your home? Do you plot or write there? I don't have a favourite room and I write where ever I find myself alone and not being disturbed, of
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It's the little things

So, thankfully today and yesterday have been "good" days. I'm up, able to do simple things around the house and the pain is at a reasonable level. Really happy, especially as Saturday and Sunday were horrible days - where the pain was so bad, I basically spent almost all of the day in bed. I'd get up, let the dogs out, feed them, have a bowl of cereal and take my meds (including pain pills) and then head back to bed. Only time I'd get up is if I had to pee or to let the dogs out. One of the
Trebs

Trebs

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Admiration, Apologies, Gratitude and Apprecation

I am currently working on, and hope to finish in time, a long-form short story for entry in the GA Spring Anthology. It is incredibly difficult and time consuming to winnow the chaff from the best grain of words I lay down on screen. My appreciation for what my partner does as part of his career and to provide for us has grown with leaps and bounds the longer I attempt this amazing thing. He is an art historian and author, co-author, collaborator and contributor of books on art history. I am pro
Ron

Ron

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A Pie. With lots and lots of food in it.

Magpie's got a case of the Man Flu, which means that he's mostly lying on the couch whimpering and watching QI. When I asked him what he wanted for dinner today, he said, 'Lots and lots of food,' with roughly the coherence of your average hungry baby bird. I figured I'd better fix him a calorie bomb to give him some energy.   So I went to the shop, had a look around and came up with a cunning plan.   I'm very fond of Shepherd's Pie and its cousin, Cottage Pie (which is made w
Thorn Wilde

Thorn Wilde

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Young and Gay in Putin's Russia: Documentary

So, I stumbled upon a documentary covering the effects of life for young LGBT people in Russia under the current climate.   http://www.gay.net/video/2014/01/15/watch-vices-heartbreaking-documentary-young-and-gay-putins-russia   (DISCLAIMER [taken from the site]: Viewers be advised. This documentary can be incredibly difficult to watch, and some of the footage is extremely graphic and disturbing. Parts of the documentary may be too intense for some viewers.)   I'd like to say I'm shocked at
MJ85

MJ85

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Life Is So Unfair

My friend Josh. He's 23, and since he was about 10 or 11 years old, he's been dealing with the complications from his heart transplant. He should have graduated in 2013, but he had to drop out in fall 2012 to deal with hodgekin's disease. Then he couldn't come back for fall 2013. Now it looks like he can't come back at all, and he's planning on coming back down to pack up his apartment, because health-wise it's better for him to try and finish his degree closer to home. While he's not back-on wi
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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New format for Case:Black

Case:Black is an experimental work in progress.   As I have been working on it, it has sort of evolved completely on it's own a 24-esque format.   I didn't intend it to happen that way. It came from the short scenes built onto a tight timeline.   I would really like to go back and re-format the whole thing but GA's author/story page... ummm I'm not sure how I would go about it.   I have decided- why fight it? The ticking clock/24-esqe format is a natural fit for the story. From now on, I
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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eBook Review: Strain by Amelia Gormley

Strain by Amelia C. Gormley My rating: 5 of 5 stars   *COMING SOON*        Feb. 17th!   Many, many times I search for dystopian stories only to fail to find one that captures my attention. I want the sense of 'the world has ended' drama, the gritty and often dark reality that the comfortable has disappeared and survival takes a level of guts and bravery not everyone has.   Strain fulfilled every single one of those dystopian desires. We have governmental mishandling, virus-releasing,
Cia

Cia

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Bigroom for Studying

Best studying music for not studying.     "Tsunami" by DVBBS & Borgeous       "Cannonball" by Showtek & Justin Prime ft. Matthew Koma  
Fishwings

Fishwings

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A little humor

Friday next week I am back in the field with a sales rep who works out of our Cedar Rapids office. I emailed him this morning for the details and got his out of office. I was on a call with a co-worker and when I spun around in my chair he (the sales rep) was behind me. He said I got your email. I said that's nice you didn't have to come all the way here to tell me that, a simple reply would have worked. He laughed then proceed to tell me he was there for a training and wanted to stop in since h
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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Potpourri of cherry trees and curry potatoes

Today was a pretty mixed bag, and meh, that's not too bad overall.   Healthwise, it started off really poorly. I've been having nerve pain, likely caused by the current chemo drug I'm on (technical term is neuropathy). I've had it in various forms before, but in the past it has been in my feet and ankles. Now one of the worst parts is in my right neck/shoulder, the back of my head and worst of all, my right ear. It got so bad yesterday that I kept taking my glasses off (the arm of the glas
Trebs

Trebs

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2014

Well, it's 2014 and for me that's meant a whole bunch of changes. Right after the New Year I made my second shift in jobs in three months, the bakery job I'd taken over the holidays proved to be temporary, but in life, I've always believed that things happen for a reason and I had been looking for a reason to pour myself full bore into freelancing and writing. For the past 2 weeks I've been submitting photographs and material everywhere i can, getting my small home office set up and making conta
layla

layla

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...clarity...

Sonnet No. 18 [July 16th, 2013 – 10:53 am]   Fear is a blind thing – hands before the face – Black velvet rippling through a starless night; Which way up; which way to a state of grace – How dependent we grow upon our sight. Yet sometimes I think worry is a gift, Given to sharpen joy to a focus, So that even from the darkness we lift Ourselves with our weak hands from the abyss. I know you have fears that I long to calm, And they call out to me in clarity, Like David's voice entreat
AC Benus

AC Benus

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Don't be an information dumper.

Trials and Tribulations is my first attempt at writing a story. Needless to say, I had a lot to learn and I was lucky enough to come across two people, Wayne and Louis, that were willing to help. Wayne has been teaching me how to make the story flow better and Louis has been teaching me the laws of writing.   I have also sought other sources to improve my writing skill to better my telling of Trials and Tribulations. One of the awesome sources I found was Editor-Proof Your Writing: 21 Steps T
Billy Martin

Billy Martin

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The Boyband Era Playlist (Mid-1990's to Early '00s)

Alright...the Boyband Era. Let's get started.   1.   2.   It's actually debatable if you can really call Hanson a boyband, because they actually played their own instruments and the like, but I'm including them because they had a big influence in bringing pop music back to the U.S.   3.   I call this, "The Video That Jumpstarted Puberty For Me." Brian Littrell was my first major celebrity crush.   4.   5.   6. "   I crushed on Brian Littrell, but I was toooottt
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Tomorrow is a Latter Day...

Doing a lot better today, physically, mentally and most importantly, emotionally. Woke up feeling good, and actually did some minor housework that I'd been needing to do (put away dishes, start new load, strip bed and put sheets and comforter in the wash). I was talking on the phone and told a friend that I didn't know what was different, it was almost like I was on prednisone (great steroid - when I do have to take it, the house gets really clean). I think it is just a lull in the hit from t
Trebs

Trebs

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Crawling out of my cave

I guess I’m tired of hiding from the world. It was bound to happen eventually. The silence in my head was hurting my ears. It is somewhat good to hear a voice again, though I’m not quite certain just yet what voice it is. Might be mine.   I realize just how out of touch I am with everyone and everything. I don’t even know if my ‘friends’ are out there anymore. I know some very important ones are not. Wish I could fix that. But you know what they say, “If wishes were horses, beggars w
Luc

Luc

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Dirges And Obituary

Dirges and Obituary   You said I wouldn’t like your playlist But, my dear, I love your songs How could I not Our choices are so similar But every word, every tune, is like they are wrought in my tears, my heart's blood How songs disappear How tears end all wars Troubles in the garden and the roses bleed love Here lies my heart all bruised and dark Here lies my heart all silent in prayer Now & forever yours   ©asamvav111
asamvav111

asamvav111

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From Buzzfeed: Why I Bought A Home in Detroit for $500 by Drew Philp

Hey, guys, I just ran across this article about a young guy who became an urban pioneer in Detroit in Detroit when he was 23...check it out. It's shockingly good, because really, who expects to read something good from Buzzfeed?   Why I Bought A House in Detroit for $500 by Drew Philp   I thought the article was really fascinating- somewhere between the story of, "Look, Downtown Detroit has a Whole Foods now!" and "Ruins of Detroit." It's pretty honest- the guy came in with some very idealis
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Frustration with... frustration

As many have noted, I do pretty well with my outlook, all things considered. And I do try - sometimes it is a little bit of a facade to get through the day, but overall I do try to look on the more positive side of things when possible. I mean, the alternatives are figure out a way to get through this or just give up - and I don't like the implications of that latter choice. There are too many things that I still want to do, places to see and most importantly, friends to spend more time with.
Trebs

Trebs

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Life and things: Watch out for Chinese New Years at the end of the month

Well, life is pleasant though a bit boring.   I am watching the NFL playoffs and enjoying my leisure time, but I have not forgotten about my story.   I can't wait to watch the Colts vs. Pats game tonight, it will be epic in the mud (we have a big rain storm in the northeast right now, the snow has melted into the ground and turned it into mud. If this gets as ugly and slippery as I thought, then I want to name this the Mud Bowl! Some Straight guys like seeing two girls mud wrestling and gett
W_L

W_L

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Computer problems

My hard drive is dying.   It says so. It is a new generation drive from Seagate that uses SMART(ass) technology to warn me that a crash is inevitable.   So far too many sectors are going bad. It's only a matter of time before the drive says ERK and dies horribly.   As soon as this happened I went into uber-geek mode and begin doing stuff like backing up and preparing for the installation of the new drive.   It is of course a huge pain in the ass. Why does my SMART(ass) technology only la
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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What I want for this upcoming year!

After one the worst years of my life last year, I look to 2014 with a new attitude and a new fondness for life.   2013 brought about the loss of a friend (they didn't die), an unexpected emergency surgery and the length of my hair.   The friend, I'd mentioned in a past blog I'd written, is still a sore spot with me because I never received the closure, I felt I was owed from my ex-friend. I've seen this person but I was in a rush to get to catch the last bus for me to get home. I saw her and
huktaunluv

huktaunluv

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Endings

Here we are barely a week into the new year and already dealing with issues. A close friend of the family lost his father. He'd gone into the hospital for discs in his back that were disintegrating. When the hospital operated they found cancer in his spinal cord. He went from an expected hospital stay of two weeks and then rehab to just over two weeks and him passing away on Sunday. He was buried today.   Also seems I can do no right in other areas of my life. Seriously considering just backin
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