CRVboy was my first official home, but I'm telling it goodbye for good, and I'm not looking back. I wish the site well, and Rob seems like a nice guy, but there's no order there, and the moderation team sucks. In reality, the field of writers there isn't up to the standard of Gay Authors, Awesome Dude or RCWP, either, and I had to ask myself if I really wanted to be listed on the same site as some of those guys. The easy answer was no, especially when I compare the site as a whole to the three major sites I'm affiliated with.

Gay Authors is obviously the best story site on the net, hands down. The caliber of authors here is second to none, and our efiction authors are better on their worst day than the authors at most other sites on their best day Add to that the community we have here and the things that the administration is doing for all of us, and you can see why GA is the best site around.

Awesome Dude is right behind GA. The work they put into that site is amazing, and I have to wonder if it really is just a few people doing it, which is what it looks like. The audio files are great, and the forum is nice and has a friendly feel to it. Of course the blogs are great too, and the stories there are top notch.

RCWP has great authors and a webmistress that cares about her site. She doesn't always make the right decisions, but that's something I can overlook. She's very picky about who she hosts and what stories actually make it to the site, but once they're there, she works hard for them. About the only gripe I have with her site is that she recently added these silly comentary pages about politics, and she takes sides too easily for it to be fair. For that reason, I choose to send her chapters and nothing more

I think CRVboy could have been a great site, too, but they step on their own feet. The forum is boring at best (Simple Machines Forums generally suck) and spooky at worst. There's a politics forum, but the moderator their attacks those who dont agree with him and threatens to delete their posts if he doesn't like them. The story discussions are pretty much dead, and there's no participation from the administration anywhere else on the forum. It's sad, but I'd be surprised to see that site still open in six months.

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I want to wish everyone here a Merry Christmas. The Second Annual Nickolas James Awards will be posted next Sunday. Also, I plan on sending in the next chapter of Bodega Bay on January 2, so look for that. I'm a few chapters ahead on that story, so updates won't be so far between. I'll have it wrapped up in several more chapters, then I can concentrate on Staking My Claim and Book II of What's The Difference Between Me and You, as well as the fairy tales anthology :ranger: :pickaxe:

Taylors still getting better. Actually, I should say that he seems like he's completely recovered because he's making us all crazy. He came over the other night and I was mad at him for going out in the cold, but I understood how he felt. He missed us. Well, not me sice I go over there everyday, but my parents. It's funny, but I feel the same way about his folks when I don't see them. We get so used to being around them that they become a huge part of our lives, and I know how bad he missed my parents.

We spent most of the afternoon yesterday in his room just laying down and holding each other and talking about things. It was kinda deep how we were just being with each other and talking. We didn't make out or even kiss. We just communicated, which was nice for a change. We came to a lot of conclusions too. Some easy for us to deal with, some that are going to be hard to come to terms with, but I think we'll be okay. The one thing we both know and said was that no matter where our relationship as boyfriends goes, we'll always be there for each other as best friends.