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REMINDER: The first discussion day for our brand new GA book club, called the "Can't Stop Reading" (or CSR) Book Club, is this Monday, January 28th. Nephylim's Memories of Forgotten Love is a fantastic read that even if you haven't started yet, once you start, you'll not be able to put it down until you're done and so you'll easily be ready for Monday's discussion. Give it a try so you can join us on Monday! For this past week, we started with a great review by Radiant Renee Stevens of No St

January 26, 2013

Prompts Writing Prompts #204 & #205

Well, Robert's off freezing his bits at the capital and internet gremlins have struck at Renee's, so you get a weekly prompt blog from yours truly! As always, our very own inspiring prompt guru, Comicfan has 2 interesting scenarios to intrigue you. Don't forget, if you decide to try one of these out, share it with the rest of us in the Writing Prompt Forum!! Prompt 204 – Creative Tag – The Monster Hunter You always thought you were the only one. You hunted down the dark and the evil, until t

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January 25, 2013

Writing Tips

Writing Tip Writing Tip: Character Interviews

We're always looking for stuff for our Wacky Wednesday and this time, Cia came through with this piece on Character Interviews. Enjoy!! Character Interviews by Cia I recently answered a tip request with some information regarding character interviews and I thought I’d take it site wide, so to speak. When you write a story, especially anything approaching novel length, you need to make it as vivid as possible for readers to keep them interested. One way to hook readers is throug

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January 22, 2013

Story Review Featured Story: No Strings

Before we move on to the featured story for the week, I'd like to remind everyone that the first GA's CSR Book Club discussion will take place on Monday, January 28th, 2013. The story to be read is Memories of Forgotten Love by Hosted Author: Nephylim. You can find the story pinned under the GA Stories tab. We would like to start the discussion with a review, so if anyone out there would like to write a review, or a couple of paragraphs about the story, then please PM Renee Stevens. Now, ont

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January 21, 2013

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

REMINDER - our new book club, the CSR Club is reading Memories of Forgotten Love by Nephylim. Read it by January 28th, then come back here and join in the discussion! Also as a personal plug, if you'd like to meet me (or DKStories, or Quonus or a few other of our great members) - we're having a GA GetTogether NEXT Saturday, January 26 at Noon in Washington DC. Would love for more to join us - just send me a PM if you can make it. We had a great mid-January week here at the news blog. We

January 19, 2013

Prompts Writing Prompts #202 & #203

Well, it's finally TGIF day, better known as Prompt Me day!! So lets see what our prompt guru Comicfan has in store for us this week. Don't forget, if you decide to try one of these out, share it with the rest of us in the Writing Prompt Forum!! Prompt 202 – Creative Tag – Immortals You have been having the day from hell. It seems that everything that could go wrong today did. Then you almost have an accident only to find out that the person you nearly hit isn’t human. In fact, you have just

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January 18, 2013

Writing Tips

Writing Tip Writing Tip: Don't Leave Your Readers Deaf And Blind

I always love it when we get a feature from Libby Drew - having someone who has been there, able relate writing tips from experience, is a valuable experience. Here she talks about using the characters various senses in your writing. Enjoy! Don’t Leave Your Readers Deaf and Blind by Libby Drew “Stop! You’re scaring me,” Megan said “I’m not trying to scare you,” Steve soothed. “We need to talk.” “Don’t come any closer!” Megan cried. “Don’t be afraid, Megan,” Stev

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January 16, 2013

Story Review Featured Story: Moment Of Clarity

Welcome to the beginning of another week here at GayAuthors. I know personally, I could have used a much longer weekend. I loved the post on Facebook by George Takai, "I really need a day between Saturday & Sunday." Anyways, one thing to look forward to about a Monday is seeing a new featured story - this time we get a review from Dark of Moment of Clarity, by Author Jason Rimbaud. Enjoy! Moment of Clarity By Jason Rimbaud Review by Dark Status: Complete Word Count: 4,

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January 14, 2013

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

This week has been a great week of announcements. For starters, if you will be in the DC area two weeks from now on Saturday, January 26 around lunchtime and would like to meet some others from GA, including Dan and myself, we're having a GA GetTogether. Check this topic for more info! We also have launched our GA book club, called the "Can't Stop Reading" (or CSR) Book Club, the format is that we'll announce a story to read at the beginning of each month, and then have a discussion on the s

January 12, 2013

Prompts Writing Prompts #200 & #201

Once again it is time for our weekly prompts thanks to the hard work of Comicfan. Best way to show your appreciation? Try one of these out, and please share it with the rest of the community in our Writing Prompts forum! Prompt 200 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following words in a story: strawberry, tea rag, bottle of soda, brownies, and cat. Prompt 201 – Creative Tag – The Cat Your cat has been bringing you presents. They aren’t the usual – no mice, birds, or anything li

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January 11, 2013

CSR- Can't Stop Reading

Site News Ga's Csr Book Club

Book clubs have had a long and storied history - providing both social interaction for the members as well as providing a forum for discussion of books/stories that might otherwise have not received as much attention. Cia recently came up with the idea for a GA Book Club and the rest of us here at the GayAuthors.org News Blog thought it was a fantastic idea. Here's an initial idea of how this would work, as well as the focus for our first month's choice - Nephylim's Memories of Forgotten Lov

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January 7, 2013

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

Great week here and hope yours has been the same. We started with a look at Hosted Author Shadowgod's story Vegas Sun - with a fantastic review from comicfan. For our Wacky Wednesday, we saw the latest installment of Yettie One's The Pulse Behind the GA Crowd - his series of interviews with this one with TetRefine. Finally we had our two new GA Writing Prompts and looked back to a year ago, with a prompt response from Cia. So - how was your week? Anthology Announcements: Spri

January 5, 2013

Prompts Writing Prompts #198 & #199

For some of us, it's been a short work week, but Friday's are still a day to look forward to. We always look forward to Friday's here as that means two new writing prompts, thanks to Comicfan, our writing prompt's guru. These writing prompts are a great way to stretch the writing muscles - but when you do, share your efforts with the community in our Writing Prompts forum. Prompt 198 – Creative Tag – List of Words Use the following in a story – dish rag, a new shirt, a box of chocolates, a b

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January 4, 2013

Author Interviews

Interview Wacky Wednesday - Tetrefine Chat

Continuing in our monthly feature Interviews by Yettie One, here is December's interview with member TetRefine (ya, two days late - but the week started in December so....) Enjoy! The Pulse Behind the GA Crowd by Yettie One I was really genuinely excited to be able to interview this months member. As a new comer to GA, one of the people that I noticed played an active role in the community here is none other than TetRefine, a young and vibrant 20 year old guy who

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January 2, 2013

Story Review Featured Story: Vegas Sun

Everyone have good plans to ring out the old and ring in the new? I had a LOT of great times in 2012, and some not so great moments, but ending the year in a great mood after spending some real quality time with friends. Speaking of friends, it was also really nice to read this review by Comicfan of Vegas Sun, an anthology story that Hosted Author (and total studmuffin) Shadowgod wrote. I hope you enjoy the review and the story! Vegas Sun By Shadowgod

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December 31, 2012

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

We're not only at the end of another week, we're almost at the end of another month AND another year. I hope 2012 treated you well, and 2013 will be an even better year for you. Here at the GayAuthors.org News Blog, we had a pretty good year, though with some growing pain changes as we experimented with various formats/schedules. You've given us a lot of comments and feedback, as well as a ton of member created content to share with the rest of our community here. On behalf of the "staff" of the

December 29, 2012

Prompts Writing Prompts #196 & #197

Holidays are wonderful lazy times.... Um - and so, sorry about the delay in putting up this week's prompts. We are always thankful to Comicfan for giving us two more wonderful prompts - I hope you might write a response to at least one of them, and please be sure to share with the rest of the community in the Writing Prompts forum. Prompt 196 – Creative Tag – The Billion Dollar decision. The future has seen too many children being born with either birth defects or low intelligence. In ad

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December 28, 2012

Writing Tips

Writing Tip Writing Tip: "write What You Know" Doesn't Mean Show Off

For those that celebrated it, I hope everyone had a great Christmas yesterday. And for those that don't celebrate it, I hope you still got a good haul. Now on to Boxing Day, Kwanzaa, Post-Festivus winter sales, and the ever important Pre-New Year's Eve creative writing exercises ("This year, I *WILL* stop gagging everytime I see the neighbor's newborn", "This year, I promise to exercise... starting next week - or, by the end of the month... well, maybe..."). And to help you with your wri

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December 26, 2012

Story Review Featured Story: Riding Lessons

Riding Lessons by Andrew Todd Review by Wildone Status: Complete Length: 132,747 Relatively new member and Author here at GA (Beginning of this November), Andrew Todd, joined GA and began to share a story that he was posting over at another site . After reading the first chapter of Riding Lessons I was instantly hooked. Zac, the 15 year old loner, had big plans for the summer working at the library helping kids out with reading and other tasks to be looked after.

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December 25, 2012

Weekly Update Weekly Wrap Up!

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Be sure to check out the 2012 Mayan Tribute Anthology - now LIVE! We started off the week looking at a returned story - The Beard by dkstories which is now back and complete on GayAuthors.org. For our midweek Wacky Wednesday, we are grateful once again to Libby Drew for her writing tips, this time on No Warm-Ups Required. And since it looks like we survived the end of the 13th baktum, we were all able to see the new weekly prompts from Comicfan in this Friday's Prompt