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
Steve has climbed into his cave and don't wake him up until the end of April. I think it it is @Slytherin's turn to stay awake this winter
That bear just happens to be the colour of outdoors.
We got dumped on the past week. No road lanes, no sidewalks, no nothing. All buried in snow. It is beautiful if you don't need to go out into it Also, the temperature dropped into the minus celsius without windchill Winter is here, I hereby declare. May you all share the wonder of it
Conversations. Sometimes it’s too much, sometimes too little, formal, informal, clumsy, artificial, with another word: difficult. Let’s practice, Shall we?
#253
Someone is on the bus. The guy beside them fidgets the whole time with an irritating tinkling bangle while telling them, it seems, their entire life story, including very personal things. It’s time to pop in the earbuds.
When it’s time to get off the bus, the talker has disappeared and the strange bangle is now on th
Please join myself and the Author Promotion Team in congratulating kbois as GA's newest Signature Author! @kbois has been a member for 7 years and in that time she's developed from a relatively new author through to one that's reached the level of Signature Author. Her recent short stories Hide and Seek and Depth Perception are of particular note and we hope you enjoy them as much as we did.
Congratulation, kbois!
Monday I featured CassieQ's story, Save Tonight, as this month's Signature Feature. Have you read it yet? It's one of my favorites, definitely an oldie but goodie. Please take the time to check it out, if you haven't yet. And maybe this excerpt will help convince you.
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Something a little different for this week's reading update. Genre Deep Dives restart next week. This week, we are going to give you the top read stories by Tag for the last 6 months. Find a tag for something you are interested in and check out the stories that are tagged that way.
Top 10 Most Read Age - child
Ralph: Breaking free by Robert Hugill In Process
A Child's Haven by CLJobe Complete
HMS Belvidera by Mark Arbour Complete
Family Struggles by
November is a month when we focus on family in the US. Sometimes it's the thing that holds us together, sometimes it's the thing that breaks us... and sometimes it's both. All I can say is bring your tissues when you read Save Tonight, if you haven't already, or you can't pass up another read like I couldn't!
Length: 5,911
Description: 'What do you want?' A wish reluctantly made, urged on by his little girl, brings Gavin something unexpected.
A Reader Said: Written in 2013
So welcome to the first nude GA Blog Now I am not personally nude myself, at the moment .
There is some non negotiable rules to a GA Nude blog:
Do not post any picture or like image of yourself or anyone else reading the blog nude You'll get banned
Do not get nude in front of others unless this is a daily activity
I am not responsible nor is GA if you damage while moving your desktop and monitor to a room where you can get nude.
GA and me are not responsib
I was reading something this week and it mentioned shooting stars, so that stuck in my brain as a good idea for some prompts. Of course, I can't remember for the life of me what the heck I was reading And I've had Bad Company's Shooting Star playing in my head ever since as well. So let's shoot for the stars and see what we come up with. After a bit of a sing-along, of course
PT Prompt #251
You've had a week from hell and on the drive home from work, you
The Prompt Team event is in full swing, and judging from the response we got, there will be a lot of stories to read in December! Like it or not, the New Year is fast approaching, which means so is the first writing event of 2025. It's hard to believe this will be our second writing event in honor of our dear friend Carlos Hazday. For newer members to the site, Carlos was a fixture of the GA community. He welcomed and mentored new members and authors, was a great advocate of and participant
How else are they going to include the most recent words manufactured and used by the younger generations, and how would us older folks be able to understand them if they weren't list in a dictionary somewhere?
Newly coined word? 2012?
As if our dictionaries, don't have enough to offer.
One of my personal favorites, don't laugh.
*ipty boppity boo
"Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" is the iconic magical incantation used by the Fairy Godmother in Disney's 1950 animated film, Cinderella. It is the spell that transforms a pumpkin into a carriage, mice into horses, and Cinderella's rags into a beautiful ballgown.
At least with this one*, at the appropriate time, the clock struck 12, everything w
Just the facts:
SONDER Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
SONDER Slang Meaning | Merriam-Webster
SONDER in Thesaurus: All Synonyms & Antonyms
SONDER Synonyms: 30 Similar Words & Phrases
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Sonder is the profound realization that every random passerby is living a life as vivid, complex, and deeply personal as your own.
Key Meaning
Main Character Effect: You recognize that every stranger you see is the protagonist
Sonder—the realization that every random stranger is living a life as vivid, complex, and deeply felt as your own—is the cornerstone of rich, resonant storytelling.
Why Sonder Matters in Storytelling:
Breaks Main Character Syndrome: It shifts a narrative away from a single, ego-centric perspective, reminding the audience (and the creator) that the protagonist is only the hero of their own bubble.
Deepens Characterization: It forces writers to treat background figures, minor charac