I hope everyone had a great week! For those that celebrated on Thursday, I hope you had a very Happy Thanksgiving! If you went shopping on Friday, I hope you made it out of the stores safely! It was a very busy week in the GA News Blog, but before we get to that, I have a brief reminder, though you'll get a second one later in the wrap up. The deadline for the 2014 Winter Anthology: Chain Reaction is quickly approaching. Stories must be received by the Anthology Proof Team by the end of the day on December 3rd, that only gives you a few more days to get those stories finished and sent to me (Renee) via PM for a final proof by the Anthology Proof Team. Now, lets see what the news blog had for us this past week!

For those who read this month's CSR story, Tears of the Neko, Monday was discussion day. Not only did Cia do a great interview with the author, but Craftingmom was also available on the blog for a couple of hours to answer questions from readers. One of the things Craftingmom talked about were Sugar Gliders. Do you know what they are? Do you want to know? Check out the blog entry!

Our normal Premium Tuesday's have been replaced for the foreseeable future with Tech Tuesday's. This week, Myr talked about a few of the upcoming changes. Not only did he talk a bit about what members can expect over the next few months, but he also offered up the opportunity for users to get familiar with the forum software upgrade. For more information as to what's happening, go and see for yourself what Myr had to say, plus, tune in next week for even more!

Wednesday's are kind of an open day for whatever we have to post for that week. This week featured Part II of the Constructive Criticism post that was started last week. Different authors have different opinions on what they consider constructive criticism. We were lucky enough to have 11 authors share with us their definitions. Hopefully these posts will help readers determine whether their criticisms will be considered constructive by the author they are reviewing.

Jumping ahead to Friday, we had two new prompts from the prompt guru. This week's prompts featured a new list of words as well as a prompt with the tag of "The Surprise Guest". The prompts are always a lot of fun, but one of the best parts of Friday's is being able to feature one of the prompt responses from the previous week. This week I featured DavidAB's response to prompt #372.

The blog didn't end on Friday like it normally does. The week even had a Saturday feature! Cia took over the blog on Saturday to provide the Signature Background for December. Considering the holiday theme of the month, what better story to feature than Myr's story "Nick Cringle". If you haven't already, why not go and download the background, and if you haven't read the story, it's a great story and well worth the read!

Anthology Announcements:

• 2014 Winter Anthology: Chain Reaction - Due December 3rd
• 2015 Spring Anthology: Full Circle - Due March 3rd
  

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The Harvest: Taken by M.A. Church

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