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Romance Deep Dive 7

Top Read Romance Stories Since Romance Deep Dive 6 Top 0 Most Read Romance - Academia / STEM Romance Romance set in STEM, academia, or featuring scientists/engineers;  No stories Top 1 Most Read Romance - Billionaire Romance Romances involving wealthy protagonists, often with power imbalances and glamorous lifestyles. Velvet and Venom by ASH PHOENIX In Process Top 10 Most Read Romance - Contemporary Romance Set in the present time, focusin
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Reviews

Featured Story: This Strange World Needs a Kicking! by Laura S. Fox

The crispness of fall is in the air. So if you want to settle back and read what appears to be a great story, check out @spike382's review. Hope you are motivated to read     This Strange World Needs a Kicking! by Laura S. Fox Reviewer: spike382 Status: Complete Word Count: 182.757   In the last couple of years, I have become an avid watcher of the live-action medium of Asian BL (Boys Love) dramas.  Now I am not remotely the target audience for such dramas, but I hav
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up (Aug. 31 - Sept. 6)

What a rollercoaster of a week! 😮  It was a lot of highs , it was a lot of lows . No, I did not borrow this from Dickens . Yet I, and you hopefully made it through it. I, like others have noticed the huge switch has been flipped since we hit September here in my neck of the woods. It seems like it was late June and I was talking about the sun being seen close to 10:30 at night. Now, it is like at 6:15 someone turned the lights out and we all went to bed for the fall and winter  Maybe
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Prompts

Wasn't it just June?

It's starting to feel like Fall here, with a few hot days thrown in.  It's mainly been cool, and the trees have even started to turn.  I love it.  Fall is my favorite time of year, with the beautiful Northeast foliage and cool temps.  It's time to pumpkin spice all the things!     It's also back to school season, which means more traffic and lots of cranky people. Let's write about the beginning of Fall.  PT Prompt #303: You've decided to go back to college at age 40. 
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Anthologies

The Proof is in the... Creature Feature!

What does the Anthology Proof Team do?  Once your anthology story is finished and edited, then it's time to send it to me so I can assign a Proof Team member to give it a final once-over.  Why do we do this? To ensure that stories meet site guidelines and basic editing standards.  We look for anything the author and their team may have missed - misspelled words, misused words, unintentional grammar mistakes, punctuation.  I have a great team of knowledgeable proofreaders ready to go with their r
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Genre Deep Dives

Poetry Deep Dive 7

Top Read Poetry since Poetry Deep Dive 6 Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Ballad a poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music. Usually follows a form of rhymed (abcb) quatrains alternating four-stress and three-stress lines. Lyrics for Tony - a collection of poems by AC Benus Complete Audre Lorde Knows What I Mean – 2021 in review by AC Benus Long-Term Hold Love Looked at Me and Laughed and other poems by AC Benus Complete a Glass Floor Underf
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CSR- Can't Stop Reading

September 2025 CSR Feature: Cliff's Pendant by Altimexis

In light of the time of year, the start of the school year for so many from preschool to college, and the nearing deadline of the coming anthology, I wanted to feature a past anthology with a school tag. I plugged in those filters (have you tried that system?!) and viola! This month readers get to enjoy Cliff's Pendant, a short story written by Altimexis for the 2021 Fall Anthology themed "An Unconventional Gift". And if, like me, you're going crazy with your IRL schedule, this is a snack-sized
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Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Update (Aug.24 - Aug. 30)

Like wowsers  ! Where did the summer go? In my neck of the woods, Labour Day is the unofficial last day of the summer season. Not that we will have a blizzard blowing in on the 2nd, although some people think that happens in Canada  (not naming names) and yet we still have summer weather all month. Just things kind of slow right down. Resorts are quieter, kiddies are back in school, big kiddies are in uni/college/trade school, etc.  I decided to take a work week out of town last week  
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Prompts

Sensory Overload

Good writing engages the senses, so let's explore some ways to do that.     PT Prompt #301: Choose a sense and then describe something related to that sense to someone lacking that sense.  For example, describe colors to a blind person or music to a Deaf person.     PT Prompt #302: Write from the POV of an individual experiencing sensory overload.  It could be too much noise, light, touch, etc.         Be sure to check out @BendtedWreath an
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Anthologies

Writing Short Stories

Classic Author Libby Drew wrote a great guest article a couple of years ago about her take on writing short stories.  Since this year's anthology is fast approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to re-feature it.    
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