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    Weekly Update (Sept. 27 - Oct. 3)

    By wildone

    I want to send out a lot of love to Cia for stepping in for moi the past two weeks    You may have been fooled and thought she only did last week's Weekly Update but she did finish and post the week before too   Well it appears everyone forgot my birthday this year  Just the way I want it.  So let's talk about birthdays. What month is yours in? We don't want the day or we could be in violation of European Laws 😮 We don't want to be banned in Europe . What do you think of birthdays? I'v
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Signature Feature

November Signature Feature: When Opportunity Knocks by kbois

Once again, I'm featuring a story that brings up that topic we often think of this time of year, family and love. Why do we love our family? Do the people in our lives truly love us? What might that prompt us to do, or not do, for love, family, friends and more? When Opportunity Knocks has some hard topics, light moments, and a lot of great writing. Please take the time to enjoy it!  Length: 96,473 Description: Jett Anderson and Kyle Benton are starting to build a relationship. L
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Nov. 9 - Nov. 15)

😮  Ever wake up in the morning and see something and know you have to do something about it? No, I'm not referring to that, guys .  I did that this morning. I opened the fridge and I have to admit it was pretty bare. The thing is when you see your bare fridge, you probably going to notice it needs a really good cleaning! So there I am at 8 this morning with everything fitting onto one shelf, and pulling out the other 3 shelves, the two crispers and meat tray, and all the door pockets. 
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Prompts

2025 Prompt Team Event

Calling all prompters!  It's time for the second annual Prompt Team Event!  Anyone who knows me and @Aditus will agree that we like to keep people guessing, so we're changing things up a bit this year.  Prompts are designed to help us grow as writers.  To push boundaries and explore ways of writing or genres we may not otherwise consider.  So this year, we are doing a genre/subgenre challenge!    To participate: PM either myself or Aditus.  We will assign you a random g
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Anthologies

2026 Writing Events

Now that we're past the annual anthology, it's time to look ahead to what's next.  We're not quite done with 2025 yet, since we still have our annual Prompt Team Event coming up.  Stay tuned to tomorrow's blog for more information.    In the meantime, I've been working on 2026's offerings, so.... 2026 Writing Events Poetry Anthology - April Secret Author Contest - summer Annual Anthology - October Prompt Team Event - December   There may be some surp
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Genre Deep Dives

History Genre Deep Dive 8

Top Read History Stories Since Deep Dive 7 Top 10 Most Read Historical - Alternate Nazi's win WWII, Napoleon win's the Battle of Waterloo, Roman Empire never fell without fantasy/speculative fiction items (other than alternate history). The Man in the High Castle Falling Apart by craftingmom Complete Do Over by dkstories Complete Do Over Redux by dkstories Complete Engineer Benson by Wayne Gray Long-Term Hold Let's Do It by dkstories Complete
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Reviews

Featured Story: True As It Can Be by W_L

Happy 2nd Tuesday of the Month. I like when this happens; when the Review Team Members turn on themselves  Well, maybe not turn. Moreso write a review on each others. Enjoy!!   True As It Can Be by W_L Reviewer:chris191070 Status: Complete Word Count: 80,310 This is a modern interpretation of the classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast. We have Brad, who because of events has become isolated, self-destructive and beastly. But he begins to change when he rescues Beau
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Nov. 2 - Nov. 8)

Is it cold in your neck of the woods 🥶 I heard it was getting below zero (32F) in southern parts of the US of A 😮 In November! I imagine I'm going to hear from our Florida contingent that it is getting down to 70F in the evenings   So an interesting week has come to a close. Scratch that, it wasn't an interesting week. It was kind of the 2nd week of November blah week. Now if it was your birthday, then I missed the bright, shiney happiness of the week! You should have included me to li
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Anthologies

2025 Anthology - Creature Feature - Wrap-Up

We had an incredible 23 stories for the anthology this year!   You guys rock!  All the comments, reactions, reviews, and comments are very much appreciated by our anthology authors.  Thank you to all who took the time to participate by writing, reading, and supporting our annual anthology.  It's a highly-anticipated site event every year, and we're already working on planning our events for next year.  Stay tuned next week for information on our final writing event of 2025.   Putting
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Genre Deep Dives

General Fiction Deep Dive 8

Top Read General Fiction Stories Since Deep Dive 7 Top 10 Most Read General Fiction - Coming of Age Follows the personal growth and development of a protagonist from youth to adulthood. "growing up" The Cockney Canuck by Dodger Temporary Hold Paternity by Mark Arbour Complete An English Teen, Circumcised in the USA by Riley Jericho Complete Desert Dropping by DomLuka Complete A to Z by Parker Owens Complete Second Shot by Andrew Q Gordon
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