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    Secret Author Event-Forbidden Knowledge is due July 15th!

    By Cia

    Wow, it's July 1st already?! There's a time warp somewhere, I swear. Or some sort of spell on my life at times, perhaps from a book of Forbidden Knowledge? Or each day I pass through the front door and enter a rift through which I lose time due to... well, who knows? What isn't forbidden is reminding all my site author friends that they need to get their themed stories to me ASAP if they want to participate in this year's fun! Click the banner to go to the event details. And readers, get ready t
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Grammar Guide

Grammar Guide 16 - Complements

Complement - a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression. Complements help add meaning or a story to the subject and verb of a sentence, for example. There are five types of Complements: Direct Object - The direct object receives the action of the verb and is usually a noun or pronoun. Tip: Ask yourself "Who" or "What" to identify the direct object in a sentence. Billy drank lemonade. (Lemonade is the direct object
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Classic Feature

April Classic Author Excerpt: Interlude by Luc

Did you catch Monday's blog featuring Interlude by Luc? This is a novella-length story that explores the idea of fate and true love... and who doesn't love love? Or doesn't want to love love. Since our commenter from Monday's blog fell in love with Ch. 6, I thought I'd share a scene from that chapter. Enjoy! Want to read more? Click here
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Classic Feature

April Classic Author Feature: Interlude by Luc

As we like to do, this week's Classic feature aims at bringing another one of the older stories on GA by a past promoted author to the forefront so newer readers don't miss out on the gems that were enjoyed by others in the past. So... what are your views on long lost loves and fated meetings through time?    Length: 39,350 Description: Sometimes the connection between two souls is so deep that it transcends time and gender. This is a story about two such souls who are joine
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Apr. 10 - Apr. 16)

Happy Easter!!!! I couldn't find any Easter Bunnies in our membership (sorry if I missed you), so I asked another member to help us out with a selfie of how they look on Easter morning   Now before you go and find her droppings around your house  you know the ones, the little brown chocolate ones. Or maybe you are lucky enough to get a big one  No matter what you did or didn't get, shall we see what gifts the GA Blog gave us this week? Tuesday was our time to get a review fr
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Writing Tips

Plotting

Now, I know that there are people out there who hear me talking about planning and plotting out a story, and they might gloss over it and think that this is a simple part of the process. But it isn't. In fact, it's one of the most important parts of the writing process that there is, and it's something that we all need to really concentrate and focus on before we even begin writing all of the other elements of our story. It will tell you what you're most excited about writing, how to connect one
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Prompts

Shakespeare's Revenge, or How I Lost My Fear of Poetry or Lost My Head

Prompt 39 April 23rd is Shakespeare's birthday.  Since April is Poetry Month and I'm absolutely horrible at writing poetry, I'm at a disadvantage, to say the least.  However, I'm always game to try something new, so I challenge our faithful readers and writers to a duel, you know, Tudor style. In honor of the Bard of Avon's birthday, let's do sonnets.  I found an explanation, which I still don't really understand, but I think I get the gist of it.   A sonnet is a 14 line poem.  It
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Grammar Guide

Grammar Guide 15 - Compound Subjects

This week we discuss the rules of thumb for dealing with Compound Subjects, especially in how they relate to last week's topic on Subject-Verb Agreement. Compound Subjects - Two or more individual nouns or noun phrases connected by "and" , "or", or "nor" to form a single, longer noun phrase.  They can cause confusion with the subject-verb agreement.  Example:  spaghetti and meatballs is a compound subject, but it is also considered a singular unit, and thus gets a singular verb. 
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Reviews

Featured Story: Moving On by Rob Colton

A big thank you to @Timothy M. for sharing this great review of one our (plus one of my favorite) GA authors, and sorry to readers for the late post!    Moving On by Rob Colton Reviewer: Timothy M. Status: Complete Word Count: 21,912 Sometimes it’s great to return to old favorites and read them again. Moving On by Rob Colton falls in this category for me. The story has some signature Rob features, including a ‘bear’ fetish and plenty of steamy sex, but this is not the onl
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Apr. 3 - Apr. 9)

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Evening, or Good Night! No matter how you look at it, I'm late  A big thank you to Cia for stepping in last week to do the Wrap Up for me! I'm just going to just go with the facts today, not too much more . On Monday, after working on Sunday, Cia introduced us to an all new Can't Stop Reading Feature: Then on Wednesday, it was the fist one of the month! This meant Aaron dropped by with another great episode of Ask An Author: Thursday was anothe
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Writing Tips

Dialog Variety

Now this is something that I've always had a bit of a problem with, myself, when writing modern day characters in my stories. So if any of you guys have any ideas or hidden secrets about how to pull this off in multiple stories, or just from a variety of different characters in a single story....please feel free to add some of those tips in the replies below as I can always use more help in this area. And why not learn from my peers, some of the best there is, right? You see...and I've hea
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