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    2025 Anthology - Big Announcement!

    By Valkyrie

    Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Joyous Kwanzaa to all who celebrate! I'm still in a bit of a food coma from Christmas dinner, but I wanted to bring a reminder and also some important news for next year's anthology.  First, submissions for Carlos' tribute event are due tomorrow, so be sure to put the finishing touches on your stories and post the link in the thread in the Writer's Circle.  Second, I decided to do things a little differently this year, and instead of having a committee decide
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Anthologies

2024 Poetry Anthology - Seasons - Now Live! Week One

I am very happy to announce that we have 16 amazing submissions for the poetry anthology this year!  We will be featuring them throughout the month of April, in celebration of National Poetry Month.  Enjoy these first five poems and poem collections and be sure to leave a comment or review for the poet.  I will be on vacation from April 7-22nd with limited availability to be on site, so please direct any technical issues to @Myr @wildone or @Cia      
Genre Deep Dives

Thriller/Suspense Genre Deep Dive 2

Top 0 Most Read Thriller/Suspense - Environmental Thriller thrillers tied to environmental events that are typically threatening the world.  Ex: The Day After Tomorrow, Geostorm No stories Top 3 Most Read Thriller/Suspense - Espionage The spy thriller is a genre of literature that centers around a storyline with secret agents and espionage. Part action-adventure and part thriller, spy stories often follow a government agent racing against the clock to thwart a big atta
CSR- Can't Stop Reading

April CSR Feature: The Big Empty by James Savik

I'm featuring one of my favorite genres this month because I'm on spring break right now (woot!) and it's all about indulging myself. Why don't you join me, even if you're not on break? This is a short hour's read, c'mon... live a little, if you dare!  The Big Empty by @JamesSavik Length: 3,251 Description: Spacers, like sailors before them, pass vast distances to get between stars. Like sailors before them, they have their stories. Spacers call it the Big Empty- or inte
Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Mar 24 - Mar 30)

So, sorry for the lack of monologue.  It's been a long day and everyone is on the road for the holiday, including Mr. Hockey. Monday gave us CSR:   Tue was our second Deep Dive into Sci-Fi Thu was the Author Guess Who #21 Reveal Friday was prompts: Saturday, @Comicality brought us Underwritten Words of the Week: Intrinsic, Douglas Fir, nuance, settee, pompous, recital, rawboned For Story updates, we had quite a few. 2 Recently Updated 'Si
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Writing Tips

Underwritten

Underwritten The characters that we create with our fiction are meant to be treated with the consistent notion that they all have something to say. That they all have certain motivations, needs and wants, flaws and problems, of their own. At least that’s how I always think of them in my head as I position them in different situations throughout my own stories. Now, it would be impossible, or at the very least...incredibly distracting, for a writer to go through each and every single characte
Prompts

Points of View - The Ultimate Personification of an Object

Points of view are so important in stories.  As writers, we have to pretend to be someone else, feel what they feel, and ache with their longings.  As an exercise, let's pretend to be something not alive.  You can fill the object with whatever you feel or think.  The object will become a character, a witness, and your sounding board.     #215 - You are a porch swing.  You must describe the events that unfold around you, but only during times of great emotion.  That's when you awaken.  
Author Guess Who

Author Guess Who #21 - Reveal!

Ah, the fourth Thursday of the month. We all know what that means, right? It's time for the Author Guess Who reveal! Did y'all have any guesses as to who the mystery author could be? If not, time to take another look at the interview...   > > > HERE < < < So, we have someone who is a fan of both Alan Alda and Jerry Seinfeld, has two Bachelor degrees, and is allergic to dogs. Well, that last part is pretty tragic. How awful! Unable to pet floofy doggos... Those poor, h
Genre Deep Dives

Sci-fi Genre Deep Dive 2

Top 10 Most Read Science Fiction - Apocalyptic and Post-apocalyptic concerned with the end of civilization, either through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. Post-apocalyptic fiction is set in a world or civilization after such a disaster. Example: 2012, The Day After Tomorrow, I am Legend Dawn of Tears by dkstories Complete Shelter by Comicality Long-Term Hold The Falcon Banner by Topher Lydon Complete Hidden Sunlight by Stellar Complete
CSR- Can't Stop Reading

March CSR Discussion Day: Running Far Afield by Libby Drew

This month's CSR author was Libby Drew, an author who has been a Signature Author on GA for a very long time, sharing her work with readers here for our enjoyment. Did you like reading Running Far Afield? Share your thoughts below! But first... the interview! Are you a person who makes their bed in the morning, or do you not see much point? I make the bed strictly so the dogs won’t get their muddy paws on my clean sheets. If I’m in a hurry, I just throw a blanket over the whole thing a
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