Jump to content

Blogs

Featured Entries

  • 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
    • 8 comments
    • 151 views

On Leaving an online site....

I've been involved in lots of online sites, anything from this one to my Yahoo group. There have been times in the past when I've felt the need to move on, either permanently or temporarily, for various reasons. Sometimes someone pisses me off, sometimes I simply grow tired of the group or bored with the posts. In fact, there was a period of time when I took a sabbatical from this site. Why? It falls into the "someone pisses me off" category and revolved primarily around someone who's name
Mark Arbour

Mark Arbour

4

I know, I know ... I'm horrible

Yes, I know I've been horrible about keeping in touch lately. Things have been crazy at work, and I'm in the process of buying my first house, which is a lot more involved than I'd expected. But, home prices and mortgage rates are low, plus that $8,000 new homebuyer tax credit ... so, now is a good time to do it. I've put in an offer on a place about an hour from work. It's kind of far, and a little bit out in the sticks (a nice, newer development, though). It's a short-sale, which means about 2
LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

4

What to write? That is the question

OK guys (he says, using the asexual version of the word "guys"), I'm having a dilemma. I'm writing two stories now, "A Summer Love," and "The Gunroom." My original intent was to write them in tandem, to try to publish alternating chapters of each. That's not working for me, primarily because I need to write where my muse takes me.   I've been enjoying "The Gunroom" lately, and have done more work on it than ASL. I decided that I'm going to go with it, which means I'll probably publish mo
Mark Arbour

Mark Arbour

4

Fighting over politics

Well, yesterday I got into a fight over the phone with a friend of mine over politics. She's vehemently Republican. I can respect that. However, I criticized the Bush administration and talked about the video I linked in the Gay Left Forum. I tried to tell her that NO president should have the type of power that the Patriot Act yielded. Quite frankly, the thought of a mad man with the power to have people arrested just by calling them traitors is quite frankly unacceptable. That is so similar to
Tiger

Tiger

5

The Way Things Don't Always Work Out

I guess everybody who writes narrative, from the Pulitzer Prize-winner to the hack, has a niche. Granted, some writers demonstrate a wide range of narrative interests and can treat a lot of themes, but there are also very very fine writers who spend most of their literary careers exploring a fairly clearly circumscribed plot of land, so to speak.   I've been tremendously fortunate in my life. I grew up in a great family, I have a decent set of personal resources and abilities, I always had a l
Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips

11

F$%#&&%$#$%

My desktop computer just decided it was time to stop working and just shut off. I try turning it back on and just get three beeps. So I'm on my labtop now =(   Did I mention all of my stories and just about everything was on that computer and that computer only?   I'm having the worst f**ken week.
Meeko

Meeko

5

Spring Break and Nude Beaches

So...   I just got back from Spring Break. We cruised around the Caribbean for a week, and got to spend a couple of days on St. Barts. If you haven't been to St. Barts, you should go. It's awesome. The towns are cute, people speak French and/or English, and they drive really fast on these narrow, concrete roads that look more like paved goat paths.   So we went to a beach that is known for being clothing optional, which is cool because then you get to see lots of boobies. The guys te
Mark Arbour

Mark Arbour

8

Fans

Those of us who have any kind of authorial presence on the Web clearly have the expectation that our stuff is going to be read. We want you to read our stuff, and we love it when you e-mail us about our stuff...usually...and we even enjoy getting to know you. Well, some of you.   Sometimes, though, I get taken by surprise. I've had two readers whose presence in my e-mailbox has caused me some discomfort.   Several years ago, back when the "author's notes" at the beginning of Crosscurrents ad
Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips

8

Frustrated

I'm just writing this because I feel the need to rant, mostly at myself. So, prepare for a slight whine fest.   I just looked at my notes for Sunny's Angel and realized I haven't been following all of them, and am entirely unsure of how to fix the chapters. I feel so bad about this that I've come to the point where I'm preparing to write an outline just to get to an ending point for the story, and yet I know if i do this there will still be a couple chapters or so before I hit the end of Sun
Linxe Termoil

Linxe Termoil

1

how to win friends and influence people...

I'd like to think it's as simple as root beer floats, but the truth is, it's not.   I started at my new store two weeks ago and have managed to make a few friendly faces smile in my direction. Still no one to hug, though. There's a cute, quiet guy who works mostly nights and I have to work to make him talk, which might be half the fun, but he's smart and curious and witty and intrigues me. Another cute kid who has a cool tattoo and had a HUGE hicky on his neck yesterday that I was having far
viv

viv

3

Oh yeah...

I forgot to add in my last blog that I quite possibly sort-of kinda maybe have a boyfriend.   Yeah.   That's it.
JSmith

JSmith

11

Michelangelo's Boudoir

Written a while back ...   This blog was prompted just a minute ago when a very hunky guy swaggered into Starbucks. His eyes may have been concealed behind his sunglasses, but there was no concealment of his self-regard. He knew he was sexy, and expected obeisance.   I doubt I'm alone in finding this to be a complete turn-off. Yeah, I might sneak a look now and then at the swaggering guy's beautiful biceps, but I wouldn't be interested in seriously engaging him.   But here we get into tri
brokenwhole

brokenwhole

0

The Final Stretch of Junior Year

So on Monday, I get back to school. I'm facing down the last eight weeks of spring semester, and thus finally finish the junior year that I didn't finish before because I left school last year in the middle of junior year.   Of course, if we're being techical, I'm not finishing junior year, because at the end of this semester, I should have about seventy-eight credits. To count as a senior, I need ninety credits. To reach graduation, I need 124 credits. This means I need forty-six cred
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

3

Beyond the Walls is up

Next installment just got posted.   Dorian Invasion, Political intrigue, Heracles and Aeolus, and a lot of myth mixing in with history. Hope you enjoy it guys. It is entirely original to my mini-anthology plot.   If you guys want the rest of his 12 labors, just ask me to write a larger story, which I am actually interested in if people enjoy it.
W_L

W_L

0

As if I didn't spend enough time at the computer already

I'm not sure why I'm doing this, but I guess I'm starting a blog here. Maybe it's because I've heard from a few of you in response to my work on the late Dan Kincaid's eFiction story It Started With Brian, and I figured it might be fun to get to know some of you a little better.   I should tell you a little about myself. I'm 29; I'll be 30 in August (yikes!). I'm married. To a woman. I have a two-year-old son. I have no idea what to call myself, orientation-wise; nothing seems to fit. I guess
Adam Phillips

Adam Phillips

13

Still waiting...

So I'm sitting in the hotel room waiting for Michelle to wake her ass up. I told her I'd let her sleep in today but it's already almost 10. I've been up since 8 and walked around the city for an hour and a half. I came back expecting her to be awake and ready to go do stuff, but she's snoring like a chainsaw on concrete. My one vacation and she's sleeping it away! Of course, I could just say f**k it and wake her ass up, but then I have to deal with her moody shit all morning until I feed her. Sh
JSmith

JSmith

6

Sorry about the delay

Well, I am not done writing this new installment.   However, let me just give a good excuse, it is taking many more words than I expected. This is an original idea, not something that I am borrowing from failed concepts that never made it in Worlds of Difference, so this new installment might be a bit more than my usual vignette.   Sorry for those readers that liked my short vignettes that were 1500-2000 words.   If enough people enjoy this installment, I might just expand it into a large
W_L

W_L

0

New knee

Hatch Mesa, east of Green River, UT   Went to Orthopedics to discuss relapse of knee problem with PA-C. Offered three options: deal with it as I have been, which is not an option because I need a good knee to drive; get a shot of cortisone into the joint, which is not an option because this is only a temporary cure and the problem will come back; or, get a new knee.   I need a good knee to do my chosen line of work.   It takes about a month for the process to go from deciding to do and get
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

0

Damn! Missed Fool's Day

The Three Gossips in Arches National Park, UT (from our knee pain shortened road trip)   Still trying to get my life back in order.   I've started working on a short story about an old man dying in a nursing home; or, he may already be dead and just hasn't realized it. It's more of an exercise to keep me writing than a real writing project. Then, again, maybe it will work out to be something.   My knee is back to the way it was before surgery. Going to Ortho tomorrow to talk about what nee
CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

0

3rd installment up for love and again

I said it in my author's note, I had too many ideas during my outline for Worlds of difference that really could not work for that story due to historical uncertainty. Well, I removed that with this mini-anthology series.   I wanted to have fiction backed by proof for Worlds, but I think this story is worth more as a romantic anthology.   This is almost a prequel to the legendary story of Exodus and it stars our two souls. These guys have been through a lot, but the soul inhabited by Mattani
W_L

W_L

0
×
×
  • Create New...