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Weekly Wrap Up (July 08 - July 14th)

Hopefully you all are enjoying your summer or winter depending on your locale. No matter what the season, GA will be here with informative articles and activities for you all year long! Monday Cia brought us the Story Review done by Parker Owens: Tuesday was more information and examples of how to use the Story Archive Search Filters: Wednesday, we gave the keys to the GA Blog to Graeme for his first blog as an Admin: Thursday Myr took us back t

July 15, 2018

writing prompts Writing Prompts #682 & #683

And just like that, almost half of July is gone! How does this keep happening? I swear, there's a time warp that makes time ahead of us seem to stretch out forever, but as soon as it's passed, I have no idea what I did with it. How about you guys? Maybe that should be a prompt? LOL Prompt 682 – Creative Tag – The Tree Create a story that begins and ends under a tree in the park. Prompt 683 – Creative Tag – The List Use the following words in a story

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July 13, 2018

anthology flashback Anthology Flashback: Winter 2012 -Desparate Ends

This week's flashback brings us back to Winter of 2012.

July 12, 2018

News Archive

Author Promotions

I'd like to talk about Author Promotion, what it is and how it works. As hopefully everyone is aware, here at GA we have a number of authors with either the Promising, Signature or Classic status. These are authors that we have "promoted" after a review by the Author Promotion Team (APT). The APT is a group of members whose job is to evaluation authors that have been nominated to see if they're reached the "next level" of writing. What do Promising, Signature and Classic

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July 11, 2018

Technology Archive

Tech Tuesday - New Search Filters

For those of you that have not yet watched the video on how the new search filters work, please watch it now: Back? Good... Now to add a few things. Since the new search system uses the URL to add filters, you can now bookmark your search. Or copy it for others. For example, this is all the Sci-Fi stories by dkstories: https://www.gayauthors.org/stories/?filter_genres=9&filter_authors=212 Or maybe your thing is complete Long

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July 10, 2018

story review Featured Story: How The Light Gets In

This week we're featuring a story by one of GA's Classic authors, one that isn't quite finished based on the story status (always important to check if you have a preference). Good thing we have a lot of ways to filter stories. Even better than just doing a search for stories, are these great reviews by our very own review team. And today's review of Duncan Ryder's story is by Parker Owens. Let's see what he thought of How The Light Gets In. How The Light Gets In Duncan Ryder

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July 9, 2018

Weekly Wrap Up (July 1 - July 7)

Well a belated Happy Independence Day to our American cousins Hope you all have recovered from you mid week holiday Another busy week this week today at the GA blog, so let's jump right into it! **Special note to everyone on the video that has been posted on the recent Stories Archive Software by Myr** On Monday, Cia introduced us to this month's CSR Feature for July: Tuesday, Myr showed us how to follow blogs. Is it narcissistic to say I follow my own blog

July 8, 2018

writing prompts Writing Prompts #680 & #681

I'm back again! Happy Friday! Did everyone make it through the week? Did you get some writing done? There's always time for a little flash, right? Well, maybe you wrote for the game featured last week or maybe you wrote for the weekly prompts, or maybe you wrote something of your own. Either way, great job! Or perhaps one of this week's prompts will catch your fancy. Give it a go! Prompt 680 – Creative Tag – First Line Don’t bother trying, kid. I’ve been trapped here a wee

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July 6, 2018

anthology flashback Anthology Flashback Fall 2012 - Friends & Enemies

For the authors out there, remember, we have two themes for Fall 2018 for you to write for: For everyone else, let's flashback to Fall of 2012 when everyone was waiting for the end of the world.

July 5, 2018

Author Interviews

Ask an Author 2.0 - #9

My threat to ask myself questions in a previous entry sparked the following from a GA member: A question or two for you... Or for anyone else with a long-running saga. How do you keep track of everyone? And indeed everything they do? Do you just remember, write notes in a separate file, rely on your beta-reader to keep you on the straight and narrow? Do you ever mix characters up, giving them characteristics belonging to someone else? I decided to accept the invitation to share the q

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July 4, 2018

Technology Archive

tech tuesday Tech Tuesday - Following Blogs

Today we are going to talk about how Follow works. In the forum software, Follow works by notifying you to new content in the item you wish to follow. So, if you follow a blog, you get notified of new blog posts. If you follow a blog post, you get notified of comments to that blog post. If you follow a Forum, you are notified of new topics to the forum. If you follow a topic, you're notified of new replies to the topic. When you click the follow button, you get these

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July 3, 2018

CSR- Can't Stop Reading

csr July CSR Feature: The Tampa Chronicles by BHopper2

What? Another 2 story series? Yes, that's what's on tap for this month's CSR feature too! Of course, instead of two short stories, we're featuring a prompt and a novella-length story written by BHopper2. This contemporary coming of age story is rife with feels, but also contains some graphic content (no sex) so please make sure you check out the tags and the story description. It's quite popular already, so I'm hoping we'll have a great Discussion day on the last Monday of the month. And hopeful

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July 2, 2018

Weekly Wrap Up (June 24 - June 30th)

Greetings all on your Sunday, or maybe even your Monday! We survived another week at GA and I think if you look at what we had featured this week, you will agree it was a great week! Monday, Cia kind of began bringing June to a close with the CSR Discussion Day: Tuesday was Myr's time and he gave us an update of upcoming changes with the Story Archive on the site: Wednesday Cia shared some great tips for Authors new to the site on posting and a good reminder

July 1, 2018

writing prompts Writing Prompts #678 & #679

Surprise! I'm popping in this week! Cia's offering an extension, so if you want it, you still have a little time for just today to write something (even a short paragraph or two fictional promo blurb for the headline you choose is okay if you make it creative enough!) for the Gay Pride Headline Prompt Game for the newsletter. You can get your work linked in the site's newsletter and featured in the forum game topic if you can send her a submission by midnight Pacific (US) time. Play along with f

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June 29, 2018

Anthology Flashback: Summer 2012 - Choices

Welcome to another week of Anthology Flashbacks. This week brings back to the summer of 2012... Do you like these weekly flashbacks? Let us know in the comments below. Click Follow on the Anthology News Blog at the top of the page. And, of course, be sure to review stories to let the authors know how you felt about their stories!

June 28, 2018

Writing Tips

site tips Cia's Torturing Me: Mod Queue Tips

Cia’s Torturing Me! by Cia If you’re an author, I’m sure you’ve thought that at least once, right? I swear, it’s nothing personal! GA’s posting system is complicated, and there is always a learning curve for new authors to figure out the ins and outs of posting here. I'm also the primary staff member who reviews Stories submissions, so I am not picking on any one person if you receive more than one PM; I'm simply the staff member who reviews everything in the qu

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June 27, 2018

Technology Archive

Tech Tuesday - Story Archive Next Version

So I shared a sneak peek of this post in our Writer's Circle. I encourage authors to join the club if you haven't yet because there are a ton of great posts in there, and sometimes early information about upcoming features for authors. So, we've got the new Stories user interface worked out, and we're fixing the bugs. Here's a sneak peek at it: The quick Title search will now be on every page. The previously empty search field now has "Search stories..." to g

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June 26, 2018

CSR- Can't Stop Reading

csr discussion June CSR Discussion Day: Anthologies by Mark Arbour

June flew by! Alas, all too many years have passed since these times in the stories written by Mark Arbour in this month's CSR selections, Furlough and War's End. Did you have the chance to read these anthologies? They do tie together, so you really should read them that way so you can review both of them. If you haven't, first enjoy this interview with Mark and then go check out the anthologies and then come back and share your thoughts in the comments below! If you had 30 minutes of free

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June 25, 2018

Weekly Wrap Up (June 17 - June 23)

First off, let's do a plug here at the beginning of the wrap up to recognize GA's original Hosted Author, on his 20 years of posting on the interwebs, Comicality. He is definitely one of our largest drawing authors to this day. So putting Tuesday in front of Monday, lets see what Myr and others had to say: So back to Monday , Cia introduced us to a new Classic Author for June. Actually this worked out good going from Monday to Wednesday, Cia followed up more with our Cl

June 24, 2018

Writing Prompts #676 & #677

I hope everyone is having a great week! I'll be filling in for Renee for a while. It's time for this weeks prompts, supplied by our prompt guru, Comicfan. Just a reminder, and for those who haven't worked with the prompts before: prompt responses under 1,000 words must be posted as part of a collection. Prompt 676 – Creative Tag – The Myth There are myths all are all around the world to explain nature. Your task is to write a ta/’le explaining why volcanos explode.

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June 22, 2018

Anthology Flashback: Spring 2012 - It Wasn't Me

The first thing I need everyone to do today is click on the Follow Button. This blog is something Authors should be following as a great way to participate in the community. Whether it is writing an anthology story or two or three for the Fall Anthologies or reading the ones below and leaving a review, participation is a great way to get yourself or your stories in front of more people. And in case you need this... *hint* *hint* This week's flashback brings us up