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  • Myr

    Action/Adventure Genre Deep Dive 5

    By Myr

    Top 10 Most Read Action/Adventure - Action Fiction focuses on fast-paced action and physical challenges.  Often involves a hero or protagonist facing intense obstacles and overcoming them through physical prowess and skill. Shadow Effect by kbois Complete The Light at the End of the Tunnel by kbois Complete Gap Year by Mark Arbour Complete The Case of the Short, Short Prince by Geron Kees Complete Two for One by P. E. Knapp Complete The Brothe
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  • Cia

    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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Litany of the Damned

I know I MUST write, else I’ll go mad. So, I am writing this.   As you all well know yesterday, a mad man carrying a gun entered a school full of children in Connecticut and killed 20 children and 7 adults. The person in question later killed himself as well. One of the teachers of the school was his mother, who was the target of this seemingly volcanic eruption of emotion that had led to the killing spree. The man was mentally ill. And he had access to a semiautomatic rifle that was used to f
asamvav111

asamvav111

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Peek Aboo

Wow   So it's been a bit of a hiatus for the Yettie of late. I've been pretty bad in terms of sticking to my chosen story, keeping my head down, and dealing with the various issues life's cast my way. Allow me to rant and rave for a while if I may, and try bring those of you that read up to speed.   So The first real issue that kind of made me duck under the radar if you will was an official offer received in writing from a Radio Station that I have been consulting too for a number of month
Yettie One

Yettie One

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Tragedy, Writing, and the Hobbit- Some Recap from WL

First I want my prayers and hopes to go out to those kids killed today in Connecticut, it was so sad to hear. I am not going to be picking up a picket sign to outlaw the 2nd amendment anytime soon, but we have seen just too much tragedy from gun related crimes in recent months. I am just tired of hearing about tragedies and tired of seeing innocent blood spilled over random acts of violence. Something has to be done about gun ownership in the US, whether it is by state law or national law.   A
W_L

W_L

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I'm so wicked

Since it's coming to the end of the year, it's time for us to start clearing out our old files. Anything that is over seven years old (so any records on children who finished their chemotherapy by the end of 2005), needs to be scanned into PDF files and then all of the paper records have to be shredded.   Now since this is always a huge undertaking (usually takes until the end of January), we try and get some of the staff to persuade their kids to come in and lend a hand (saves paying agency
Andy78

Andy78

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Contrasted living in the Big Smoke....

So, as anyone who has read my last two blogs (and a few sporadic ones before that) will know, I now live in London.   Now, as anyone who has moved from a rural idyll to the city lights will tell you, cities are a completely different beast in almost every aspect. Here are the things I love:   (1) A coffee house is never more than 5 minutes away.... (2) I can hold my boyfriend's hand and nobody cares (3) I can kiss my boyfriend in the street and nobody cares (4) In fairness re: (2) &
Westie

Westie

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Scientists claim to have solved the 'evolutionary riddle of homosexuality'

As this may be considered political, I am re-posting it here in accordance with site rules.     Reposted from http://lgbtqnation.com _______________________________________   Scientists claim to have solved the 'evolutionary riddle of homosexuality'   http://www.lgbtqnati...-homosexuality/   A group of scientists say they possibly have solved the question of what makes a human being gay, according to a study published Tuesday by the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological S
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Second Guessing

I was writing yesterday, and I hit a place in a chapter where I stumbled and had a hard time continuing on, not because I didn’t know what was supposed to happen there, but because I was second guessing myself and what had come to me while I’d been outside thinking earlier in the day. I do this a lot really, second guessing myself when I write, stopping myself from going to the place I was headed out of fear that I might be going too far or that it won’t sit well with others. I’ve found that wh
layla

layla

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Life and its Curve Balls Part II

Hello all, first off let me say thank you to everyone for the kind words and support. I appreciate it more than I can say and it makes me so grateful to be part of such an awesome community. With that being said, with the news I got today it cements the fact that I am unsure when I will be returning to GA full time. As such, if you post a review, send me a PM, or any other form of communication, if I don't get back to you immediately, it is not that I am ignoring you. Now, onto the update.
Renee Stevens

Renee Stevens

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Saving Goodbye to and Reflecting On My Mid-20's

Last Friday, I turned 27 and officially entered the land of the late 20-something, starting off my countdown to the 30 club. If this were Logan's Run, I would be a red now. It was a pretty quiet birthday weekend- just an Olive Garden famly dinner, a drink or two with a friend and a late-night Saturday trip to Waffle House.   It's gotten me into relfective mood over the age stage I've just left, my mid-20's. When I turned 24, I was a senior in college and I was convinced that my best days were
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Shifting Focus

For this to make sense, i guess I need to start this sojourn of a blog around 10 years ago. I was in college (6th form college, to you guys out there in the US) and i had moved out on my own into a really terrible "bedsit" flat. My studies were just coming to an end and it seemed to me that my world had fallen apart.   I spent my entire childhood assuming that I would become an English teacher (actually, not true: I did briefly flirt with the thought of becoming a priest, and got a fair way
Westie

Westie

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The House

The House   I waited years for the house to sell. Even then, I had to act through an intermediary. If David's parent's had known that I wanted their old place, they would have burned it down rather than see me get it.   They were like that. They hated my guts. They blamed me for everything about David. They blamed me for turning him gay. They blamed me that he got wanderlust and caught HIV and of course they blamed me when he died. Hell, they didn't even allow me to attend the funeral after
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Bewitched, Bewildered...and Just Plain Confused...

Ok, so I thought I knew what I was doing...   I recently posted a new story 'Infinity' both here and on Nifty. My original idea for the story was a far cry from what I ultimately prooduced. I was a little unsure of the end product, but sometimes the muse gets what she wants and not necessarily what I planned.   I was so up in the air about this story that after I got it back from my editor, I re-wrote the last line of dialog and I added the very last line of the story. I thought both made t
Andrew Todd

Andrew Todd

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Community or not? (re-engagement)

So, something happened that has made me re-evaluate a few things.   When I first came to GA, It was because of Mark Arbour's stories. As I became a member I became active in chat, and then the forums. Between the Soapbox and MA's forum, I was if not prolific, then certainly visible. I even tried writing my own story - until I realised how painful reliving old memories can be. The story is still there, unfinished - its appallingly bad (honest, take a look, you wont get past the first few pa
Westie

Westie

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U.S. Supreme Court to hear Prop 8 review, DOMA challenge cases

(Apologies for being impatient, but I wanted to get this going. If this gets taken down, then...whatever, I guess. )   So, with the Soapbox set to close, and Myr's pronouncement that news items should go in blogs:     I'm essentially picking up the discussion where it was left off yesterday, and doing it here. I had originally posted the article, followed by a link to its source (from Yahoo), but at that time the article was brief. It's since been updated to be much longer, so I'm not goin
MJ85

MJ85

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Back from Florida with some changes, fun memories, and an odd sense of peace

Well, as I said, I went to West Palm Beach over the week.   The trip was a business oriented session that was both fun and interesting. I've usually been able to control my drinking to prevent myself from going into la-la land, but I did not during the staff Christmas party down there. Two coke and rums, plus 3 glasses of Chardonnay in two hours, I had my very first black out in years.   I don't know if everyone experiences the same things during a black out, but mine was very odd and sort o
W_L

W_L

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Oh my!

Well today at work was a bit of a shock for me.   I had to go over to the medical records archives section today. Like many London hospitals, the hospital I work at has been around since the 1700s, so is now scattered over about 40 buildings, most of which are purely administrative areas (makes more space in the main hospital for patient stuff).   One of these admin areas houses the medical records archive, the phlebotomy clinic (where they do the blood tests) and the specimen drop off (for
Andy78

Andy78

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No-Where To Run

Tears trickle down those rosy cheeks As I watch by the cold weather outside And the cold feelings of the old heart I betrayed Watching me becoming a prisoner of my own love I cast my net slowly waiting in silence With haunting patience for the catch I await your return.   ©asamvav111                       An old creation, 2005.
asamvav111

asamvav111

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Juggling

Where to start is always the difficult part for me. What brought this blog update about is, my sleeping pattern has gone from bad to very good to bad again. All because I have too much going on in my head. What am I juggling? Well, actually my life. Stuby is first priority, his health, welfare and happiness is and always will be my first priority. Joint second is the farm, and my friends here and on FB. Next is my studies. I have my course material through now, and I need to get on top of it
Mark92

Mark92

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Untitled

Writing about love is like writing about pain; When did it start, how did it progress, did it affect your day to day activities, How did you cope with it, pills, meditation, diet… so on and so forth?   Yes, Love has indeed brought a lot of heartache. But, is that all it had to offer? What about the nicer times, the times when we flowed like music, an eternity in peace. That time when in the dead of the night, you came by just to say, “I love you”. The times that we shared in the whirlwind of r
asamvav111

asamvav111

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fashion & fuunction

As I work on networks, I am often in tight places that aren't very nice. Think spiders, rats and claustrophobia. Crawling around in wiring closets and raceways is a bit like spelunking. In the summer the heat can be well above 100. You want to get in, get it done and get out before you die.   What you carry can make so much difference: too much is a nuisance. Not enough and you've got to make more trips. It's tricky to find just the right combination. I've tried lots of different solutions.
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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The system will return to equilibrium

In our ecology sometimes things get out of balance. Subtle things that you wouldn't notice might make a huge difference.   The populations of various types of species, most noticeably insects, can suddenly spike to many times its annual average.   Things as subtle as a five degree variation in temperature, an inch or two of rain one way or another or even a early or late frost can cause huge variations in different types of species.   These events are called population outbreaks and can ha
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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When You Don't Need More

When you start a realationship there's so much to learn, teach, and accept that if you have the right person, you will definitely know it.   I was so lucky, and I wish it for all of you here. I like to write good things and i am lucky enough to have them to write about. At work the other day, my hubby called me and said," I had to go and get so and so for the plant. I was like, " You have already left?". ( we have both been working at the same place for over 25 years.) He said," Yes, but i
joann414

joann414

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I Dreamed a Dream

Wow!! Just WOW!!   Every once in a while you are lucky enough to have a dream come true.   Last night I got to have one of mine come true. I was lucky enough to get to see Idina Menzel in concert.   If you aren't familiar with her, she was the original 'Maureen' in 'Rent' (and did the movie), she originated the role of 'Elpheba' in 'Wicked' for which she won a Tony...and if your idea of 'art' is the boob tube...she also played 'Shelby Corcoran' on 'GLEE'.   She is one of the most amazing
Andrew Todd

Andrew Todd

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