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    Emotional Rescue

    By Cole Matthews

    Ahhhh!  The plot is thickening.  The characters have developed perfectly.  You have balanced your pace so there is riveting action, informative scene setting, and a richness to your tableau.  Everything seems to be going so well, and yet, your beta reader drops a bomb on you.  "It's just falling flat."   What are you supposed to do?  Where do you turn?  How can you enrich and round out your characters?  How about a little emotional rescue?  Let's try filling in the back story of y
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Reading Reports

Non-Fiction Deep Dive

Nonfiction is prose writing that is based on facts, real events, and real people. Sub-genres: Autobiography, Biography, Creative Non-Fic, Letter, Reference   Top 10 Most Read - Reference The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Poetry by AC Benus The Great Mirror of Same-Sex Love - Prose by AC Benus Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus One Hundred and Fifty-Five Sonnets by AC Benus WL's Mainstre
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Announcements

Thank You to Our Moderation Team

Continuing on with our week of thanks, the Admin team wants to call out the amazing volunteers on our Moderation Team!! When most of us think of moderation they think it is all about discipline. We all try really hard to educate first. Then in limited cases, we do have to let some know what they are doing, how it is harming the site, and what we need to do to avoid it in the future. Due to the actions by our Mods, this is about always the only occurrence due to their willingness to help eve
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Announcements

Thank You to Our Blog Contributor!

On the second day of Thanksgiving, my true love gave to meeeee....   Oh wait. Wrong holiday!     I think @wildone 's Weekly Wrap Up is influencing me Anyway, our week of Thanksgiving continues with extending our appreciation to our fearless, resident Coyote Cub, Aaron!  Aaron stepped up to the plate to bring us two of GA's most popular featured blogs: Ask an Author and Author Guess Who.  His blog posts are always humorous, interesting, and informative, and never fail to draw lots of comments!   
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Anthologies

Thank You to Our Anthology Team!

It's Thanksgiving week in the USA, so we thought a perfect way to kick off the week would be to thank our Anthology Team for their hard work throughout the year!  There is a lot of work that goes into producing the GA anthologies, from the behind-the-scenes technical support from @Myr, banner creation and general support from @Cia and @wildone, and the unsung heroes of the anthology - the Proof Team!   The Proof Team works diligently to ensure anthology stories meet site standards and basic edit
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Nov. 12 - Nov. 18)

Wow, what a busy week   Not only personally but also here at the GA News Blog!  I won't bore you with my week although it was Tony the Tiger, Greeeeeeeeeeat! But shall we start off will US Thanksgiving week in the US of A. I'm sure with everything going on in our world's, day to day, and week to week, there is a few things that if we look at our own lives and leave out the rest, there is a lot to be thankful for. Although I'm not 'merican, I'm personally glad that I have GA to come to
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Writing Tips - Skills

The Secret To Writing Horror

The Secret To Writing Horror Something that I always found funny whenever I see people online or even my own friends and family when watching horror movies...is what it brings out of them. Hehehe! Like, be honest...how many times have you seen someone get a lucky shot in on one of the killers or slashers or monsters...and they scream, “YES!!! Now do it again! Stab them! Stab them! Stab them! Beat them! Rip their guts out! Yes!!!!” Which seems like a ‘normal’ reaction to most people in these
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Memorial

2023/2024 Writing Event Announcement - A Tribute to Carlos Hazday

Long May You Run - A Tribute to Carlos Hazday Our beloved Carlos had a tradition of posting something new for his readers to enjoy on January first.  It was a great way to ring in the new year.  In this vein, we thought it would be fitting to feature a tribute to him on January 1, 2024.  Anyone is welcome to contribute a story, letter, poem, or whatnot on a topic that resonates with them with respect to Carlos, be it bikes, tattoos, Florida, politics, writing, or something else. The ru
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Announcements

Thank You To Our Review Team

Hi Everyone!!! The Admins here at GA are thankful for the groups that help us out throughout the year for the time and effort that they put into make GA the premiere gay stories sites on the internet!  After discussing, GA would like to extend an official public thank you to our Review Team. Month in and month out they take turns reading a story from scratch and doing up a review. This hopefully piques your interest in a story you may not have read or maybe an author you have not read.
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Reading Reports

Literary Fiction Deep Dive

Literary fiction is focused on the exploration of the human condition.  Sub-genres: Contemporary Literary, Historical Literary   Top 10 Most Read - Contemporary Literary Stronger Than Lions by Sean J Halford Thicker Than Water by John Henry Brian: Taking Courage by Robert Hugill Desafinado: Slightly Out of Tune by LJCC As They Say - (Revised) by D.K. Daniels Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in
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Prompts

Forgotten Treasures

Have you ever started digging through an old box and found something you had forgotten about?  Is there a scrap of paper with a name of an old lover, and it makes you sigh?  The memories start flooding back into you as you rifle through ticket stubs and T-shirts at the bottom of your closet.  Things are so good at prompting our personal histories, and so let these prompts give your characters some thoughts about events from their past.  Let the remembrances flow!!!! Prompt #181 - After Than
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Featured Stories

Featured Story: The Case of the Short, Short Prince

Has it been a month already? So we always put out a calling for anyone that wants to volunteer for various groups on site to let us know. This past month we had @W_L answer that call and joined up with our Review Team. So let's check out his first entry!     The Case of the Short, Short Prince by Geron Kees Reviewer: W_L Status: Complete Word Count: 372,908 For a serious person, it offers an escape into a magical world where you can get lost in the adventure plo
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Nov. 5 - Nov. 11)

Hey! Last week we changed the clocks in a lot of places, who changed the days this week?   Up here in Western Canada, yesterday was Remembrance Day were we remember all the veterans and peacekeepers that all served in our forces and some that died doing so. It is actually a holiday I believe in all Commonwealth countries, but others do a bigger ceremony on other holidays. When I say Western Canada, I know we have it as a stat holiday. This means this weekend has me mixed up. We are taking M
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Writing Tips - Character

Subtext In Dialogue

Subtext In Dialogue It’s something that we all do, and often on a daily basis. We LIE! Hehehe! It’s true! It might be quick and automatic and usually pretty much harmless for the most part...but we all do it. People ask us how we’re doing, and we say, “I’m fine” or “I’m ok”...when nothing could be further from the truth. We go to jobs that we hate and stay in relationships that don’t make us happy and pretend that life is as good as it gets. We interact with people that we, literally, can’t
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