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    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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Nanny 911

For those who've talk to me in chat, you know we had a bit of a glitch with the Nanny. We thought we were getting Mary Poppins but what we got was a Nanny 911 reject.   We hired the Nanny - let's call her Mary - because she was an older woman - and by older I mean not in her twenties. She has grown kids, been a nanny for a long time, and had good references. She knew/knows a LOT about babies and their developmental stages, she also didn't ask to be paid under the table. That last one was s
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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Living witness: History in front of your eyes

I just realized something today, The au bon pain had completely closed down at Harvard square.   I haven't gone to the harvard bookstore in ages, lot's of things getting mixed up in my life and probably a little too much GA soapbox stuff as well. If I had gone down there like I had in the past, I'd noticed the place had changed as I wanted to grab a sandwich after work.   I also didn't realize that a starbucks had opened right near the train station (seriously, there's a starbucks right at t
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W_L

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Trollol

I don't get why these types of people still exist, they constantly bother others because they feel important. They constantly troll spaces because they have nothing better to do with themselves. So, they continue to annoy our lives.   My problem with bullies are simple, they like to blame others for the incompetent life they have. I shouldn't have to subject myself to a persons idiotic attitude. What I'm saying is simple, stop your ways. You're not funny, you're not witty, you're not entertain
ryan jo

ryan jo

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Day 43

Day 43, April 17th   While working on Box 9, I came across three religious service books. It made me think about how important religion must have been to the soldiers who fought. It may not have been their personal beliefs, but they definitely had to consider religion as part of their daily lives. I wonder what it might have been like to have been an atheist in World War I- would one have even admitted to such a thing back then?
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Disappointment

Sooo... Approximately 3 weeks ago I traveled to New Jersey for a face to face interview with a Vice President of a department I wanted to work in. The Director, Associate Director and the hiring manager all loved me and were really excited. Then the interview came. I arrived early to meet with the three decision makers prior to my interview. Everything was solid and good. The VP thought I was late because his secretary didn't know I was there over an hour early to meet the others. I didn't get a
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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Citadelle de Papillon

I was, originally, going to attempt to turn this into an anthology piece. As I tried to do so, the amount of setting and unpacking needed to make the story stand up falgged to me that I was, at beast, looking at a short novel. More probably a full length novel, if not a series of them. And my dream saw fit to only provide me with part 1. I always suspected I was a bit of a bastard. Parts in purple I added after being awake, to fill in some of the narrative blanks. Parts in black, including the f
B1ue

B1ue

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Ghost Hunting

I went on a ghost hunt at IUP this weekend, over at Keith and Leonard Hall. It was cool- last Halloween I went and nothing happened, but this time around, we had some experiences! Using a flashlight that would turn on and off by itself as well as a K2 meter, we had several ghosts communicate to us. One was named Danny- he had identified himself as a founding father of IUP, and had been around during the 1870's and 1880's, and died of an illness in March. I had literal chills going down my back w
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Day 40, Day 41, Day 42

Day 40, April 11th   I finished work on Box 2. Finally.   Day 41, April 13th   I started work on Box 9. It doesn't look as if it'll take as long as Box 2 did. Hopefully.   I gave one of the other grad students a tour of the military exhibit at the society. He's into military history, so I pretty much let him lead the tour. I imagine that something like that will come up when gving tours, running into people who know more about the exhibit(or at least believe they do) than you do. I kept
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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My weird taste in movies strike again

If I ever find a good boyfriend, who can live with my eccentricity and political views, he definitely needs to love movies.   This particular movie was interesting, but very out of character for me:   God Bless America   The premise was what drew me towards it: I mean who doesn't have urges sometime after watching MTV to strangle all those reality TV stars for their stupidity?   Or when you hear about Reverend Fred Phelps and his Westboro Baptists anti-gay demonstrators, who hasn't ever
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Mistakes I'm making as I write this

I'm unlucky in love. Don't feel sorry for me--it's by and large my own fault. But it still sucks.   There's that old fable about a dog that, by some stroke of luck, found a piece of meat and was carrying it home to eat it. When he crossed a river, he mistook his own reflection for another dog with a better treat, and opened his mouth to bark at the other dog. He dropped his own meat into the river, and for all that greed and dissatisfaction was left with nothing. 6-year-olds the world over hav
Bender

Bender

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For the Titanic

I am post dating and timing the release of this blog entry to the exact time the ship struck the iceberg.   If there was one touchstone of my childhood and possibly the last century to the Titanic, it was this movie and song. Simply beautiful and tragic, makes everyone that saw the movie and heard the song in context feel just a little bit emo (heck, I think the movie probably created the emo generation ) :  
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And it all came down to a rock... or to quote Charlie Brown "I got a rock!"

Alright, the fact of my life is I have no luck. No, strike that, if I didn't have bad luck I'd have no luck. I've been silent about any sort of hopes or desires because, well, if I mention them then there is a good chance something can go wrong.   Yesterday is a prime example.   I got my tax money back. Not a fortune, nothing that you say is mad money. I have plans for nearly every dime of it. In fact a large part of it is suppose to be sent in June, for this little thing coming up I started
comicfan

comicfan

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Holy Crap . . . has it really been three months since I updated this?

Wow, time flies.   'lil Q is now 6 and a half months old - gasp Mike finished his paternity leave and we have a nanny. I think the nanny tried out for Nanny 911 and was rejected as too over the top. First hour in the house she decided we weren't feed 'lil Q right. We had the order wrong - cereal then formula for breakfast and we didn't give her enough, etc. So basically we were idiots. Since I'm at work and Mike is home, I left it to him to deal with her. It took him almost a week befor
Andrew Q Gordon

Andrew Q Gordon

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About my memories

Those who read my blogs know that I have lived an exciting life, eventful, with both pleasant circumstances and difficult times.   Nephylim suggested I should write my memoirs as a non-fiction story. I did it and really enjoyed writing this story, thinking that may be some could learn from my experiences, my joys and my woes.   The first chapters were favorably received. Over 500 readers have read hem. Today, only about 30 readers have read the last written chapter, the 15th. I wonder some
old bob

old bob

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Sharing an old mother goose Rhyme

Just found my old childhood storybook of mother goose rhymes, I didn't know they had so many innuendos and adult meanings until now.   Here's one for folks about a horse shoe nail:   For want of a nail   For want of a nail the shoe was lost For want of a shoe the horse was lost For want of a horse the rider was lost For want of a rider the battle was lost For want of a battle the kingdom was lost And all for the want of a horseshoe n
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W_L

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Day 37, Day 38, Day 39

Day 37, April 3rd   Continued working on Box 2.   Day 38, April 4th   Continued working on Box 2.   Day 39, April 10th   Almost finished with Box 2.   There was a woman in here with her kid today, basically planning on having him volunteer over the summer. He didn't look all that excited, but my hope is that they'll find the right hook with the kid, and get him to enjoy the place.   I feel like that's a major part of what I'm supposed to do in this field- figure out how to make peo
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Life on the packed side

Welcome to real life. It is messy, beyond our control, and sometimes you just have to do the best you can, and that might just mean hanging on by your fingernails and saying a little prayer.   Dad is recovering nicely from his skin cancer surgery. They believe they got it all but he will continue to be monitored and checked out. My sister-in-law has begun her treatment for her throat cancer. Me, I've decided to put myself on the front burner for a change. I had let Weight Watchers pretty much
comicfan

comicfan

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Why hello there

What have I been up to?   Let me list it off. Drabble A Day: I started a fanfiction Drabble a Day on my birthday, March 26. I'm into Week 3 now and on drabble 17, which I'll write tomorrow. I nearly have enough pairings to last me the year. National Novel Writing Month: I won 2011 NaNoWriMo, again. I wrote a fanfiction called 'Like a Bullet' and it is a fanfiction since all of my original ideas at the time were in production. I'm currently finishing off typing it and editing chapter 9
S.L. Lewis

S.L. Lewis

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Stuck In The Middle... wondering what to do

< Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right > Stuck in the middle with you (Gary Johnson, Libertarian) I'm sorry but I can't tell the difference no more It's just a competition to find the biggest whore. It doesn't really matter who wins, We we all lose... Stuck in the middle of a broken two-party system that is completely out of control.
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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What is darkness to a reader?

I've wrote a very cold blooded and chilling scene and realize that I can be extremely dark if I choose to be. I've gotten a lot of comments in the past from readers that felt I tend towards darkness a lot in my story, but I never ask you guys, what type of darkness is it? Is it something that you guys like or something you guys fear? or a little bit of both?   Then, I start reading and writing review of stories and find other authors with the same word in their reviews, "it's dark" or somethin
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W_L

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Just saw a movie, I put off for a bit

It is truly amazing and spell binding. It also has some really interesting questions about ethics, human nature, and greed on an international and human scale.   Margin Call (2011) was fun, aggressive, and highly entertaining:     Jeremy Irons is such a great actor, plus you got Kevin Spacey and Demi Moore. I think Michael Douglas has good competition for Wall Street versus Jeremy Irons in Margin Call.   I've put off watching this movie for a while, but another benefit of freeing up m
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On hiatus from the Soapbox for 3 months

I'm serious about it this time and it has been building up for a while. I mean I love debating, but I love writing stories too. Every moment I spend researching and debating points is a moment I can't write.   I said almost two weeks ago, I'd release my Act 2 and Act 3 this week for my play. Look at my GA stories profile, it's still not up. I've had this happen to me more than once, I start a story with ideas, themes, and concepts, then I get into a heated debate in the Soapbox and I neglect i
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