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This was a great blog! I can definitely agree, there is nothing like getting comments from readers to keep an author motivated.

Dade is no one's victim. He refuses to acknowledge the truth, that he needs someone who can help him. Of course, the last person he ever expected to find that in was an alien light years from everything he'd ever known.

LOL! Aww, did you guys get to enjoy the concert at all???

Welcome Elena! I'm glad Maria got you to join the site. If you're looking to read, you came to the right place, LOL!

If I don't know who is at my door the only way I'll open it is with my doberman by my side. However, since the porch runs along the living room big window, I usually see who comes up to the door first.

Hey Mike, Happy Birthday!!

Zippo One: Click on the GA Stories blog, then click on the word Archive just above the actual blog list you'll get. That gives you a really neat listing of all the blog articles in an easy to read format. Look for the Tip days that have to do with characters and settings. There are quite a few in there, like KC Grim's recent on about building believable characters and one back in April by CassieQ about figuring out your character is before you write the story and how to share that with readers. The Writer's and Editor's Corners also have a lot of great articles on writing. Andreanugget: Check out the search options in GA Stories, along with the tags. If you click on 'Title' in the browse options on the left side, you can search by genre (we have a few stories in the Western genre) and then by length, status, tags, ect... to refine your search specifically. You can also simply use the options in the browse area to go straight to searching by tags.

Hi Zippo One, welcome to GA! Now, as for posting, it's a bit different on GA specifically than Comsie's site and areas for his fans to post stories. I'm not exactly sure of his rules over there, since I'm not a fan of the younger age stories, but we do have a rule against stories that are what we call 'plot, what plot?'. Basically that means that you can't just have a story solely about sex between two guys, there has to be something beyond the sex to make it a story and not a stroke piece. Ricky should be able to give you some great advice on that with your stories. When you get all your posts made, and if you decide to try submitting to GA Stories, please read this FAQ topic. The New Author Help will guide you on how to post and hasguidelines about things like how often to post and how to fix the most common formatting errors. The link can also be found at the end of the greeting on the main GA Stories page and through the 'Site Help' tab. Again, welcome to GA!

It is very simple for me. You can have infatuation, which I consider a fancy word for lust. You WANT a person. Doesn't necessarily have to be solely sexual but that's the long and short of it. It can be instant or a sudden change in how you view a person you already know. Love grows between two people, and you can look back and recognize the connection with the person you love from the beginning, but it never starts 'at first sight'. It's not instant but it can be just as crazy intense as lust. You have to spend time with them, know them and be with them, in order to love a person. It's more encompassing and a lot stronger. It's like the recognition you feel inside that this person is part of you, and no matter what, they always will be. It's a commitment and a promise to be there for them, to accept them for who they are. And if you're lucky as hell, they feel the same way back.

LMAO. So not going there, but this topic is freaking hilarious. What the world shares when it's relatively anonymous like the internet is, right? You all are braver souls than I am to share that kinda tmi.

Oh we love readers! Obviously having authors on the site is important, but without readers, what would the point of writing be? I'm glad you found the site. Welcome andreanugget!

I work with Calibre myself. I've used that to convert some of my stories on here, with cover graphics, into ebooks as well. I have a kindle and it works quite well since I typically purchase my books in epub as well. Kindles also work with html files, if you email them to the person's 'kindle email' and they have their wifi on. I've found that the most popular format that people ask for ebooks in are epub, mobi, and pdf. I know Smashwords will host free ebooks and they convert to multiple formats but I haven't actually posted my ebooks for free online anywhere so I can't give any good ideas for places to post them for member downloads.

All I have is for you hun.

Happy Birthday Steve!!

Snickers, getting older sucks, yes? Happy Birthday!!

I've been with the same guy for almost 15 years. I've had erotic dreams about past boyfriends, guys I know, actors, mystery strangers ... All it means is that your subconscious has decided to take you for a nice little ride. It doesn't mean you want to go out and have sex with someone for real. Don't worry so much!

Confidence in who you are and what you, straight, gay, bi... comes in different time frames from different people. Knowing that information doesn't mean you shout your relationship details from the rooftops. I never really worried about being bi, I always viewed it as twice the pleasure for myself, lol. However, I'm 30 and I've yet to tell my dad that I'm bi. I don't know that I'd ever tell him I've had relationships in the past with girls, because it isn't relevant now since I'm married to a man and my dad is a bit of a bigot. That's not a reflection on my sexuality, but on my confidence on his attitude and tolerance. Based on past conversations about your mother, I don't blame you for not talking to your mom, either.

Happy Birthday hun! I hope you had a wonderful day!

I do have to agree with Ricky, to some extent. Some stories just have to be written. However, if you are new to writing, the prompts are a good no stress way to start a story without having the expection of making it a long one. As for your question AJ, you can post a sample of your work along with the details you 'plan' for the story in the Editor's Corner-Writer Support Requests Forum. There is a topic, here, that details how you should post your topic and the information a possible editor/beta would need as well as other ideas. Another way is to post a story and then ask readers in the end of chapter note to contact you if they are interested in beta reading/editing the story (if it is a serial work with multiple chapters) or are interested in helping with future stories.

Very nice story lilansui! I loved the different vibe to it and the artistic theme. The love story was pretty cute too!

I'm a sucker for dark hair and blue eyes. My bratlings have the best blue eyes too, they got them from their daddy.

Welcome AJ! Good luck with the prompt piece, there are quite a few different types of prompts to try out. You should be able to find one that resonates with you.

I wish that Amazon would institute a policy of removing a story from sale/view when they get accusations. Granted, I don't know how common this is, or how often people would do it just to get to an author/story they might not like removed, but it seems like that would be the right thing to do. When I got the email forwarded to me, the first thing I did was to put KC's story under review so that it was off the public viewing area of the site. Not because I assumed that he'd done anything wrong, but because it only makes sense to have the story out of public purview until more investigation is completed. I was considering putting some of my ebooks on Amazon for free, but more and more I'm getting leery of the site's policies.

Yep, I'm pre-empting Blast From the Past this week to inform members of a story that's been stolen from GA then put up for sale on Amazon. The story stolen was Chasing the Shadows by K.C. Grim and it was posted under Embraced by Shadows by K.J. Fleur back in May. We only found this out when a concerned reader emailed the admin account to find out if the story was stolen and posted on GA. That proved to have happened in the reverse, and KC had his story ripped off. All this author did was change the names in the story and the title. They even used the same description! Earlier this year, I was alerted to the fact that several authors on Amazon had copied multiple stories from authors on Literotica. Of course, I checked to see if this K.J. Fleur had copied other stories from GA. but they don't appear to have any other stories in their author account. That doesn't mean your stories are safe online though! Now, I'm not a techie, so I might not be going about this the right way but I performed a search on a part of the description that didn't have any names. I found that you need to type in the phrase you search on Google, not copy it from any site online. When I did it with copied text from GA, I found GA results to KC's story. When I copied the phrase from Amazon, I found results on the story on Amazon. When I typed in the description by hand, I found both. The problem also lies in the fact that thieves might not be quite a stupid as this 'K.J. Fleur' and write up their own description. So how do you look to see if your story has been stolen? I couldn't find any simple way to search by a phrase from the story to search for other plagiarized content stolen from GA. If any readers of this blog are better at this than me, please let us know how to do it. If for some reason you do discover your story on Amazon, there is recourse. KC has already contacted Amazon and has been told that they would have a resolution quickly, within a few days. I found this page, Kindle Direct Publishing Terms and Conditions, with the exact language for anyone who feels their story has been stolen and the steps to take to correct it. The relevant paragraph is # 5.7: I also found this: I'm sure every author on GA would be horrified to discover their story had been stolen, especially those who are attempting to break into the publishing world. I truly hope this has not happened to anyone else from GA. A big thank you goes to the concerned reader who contacted us. Without that information, this might have gone unnoticed.

Welcome Kryshim. Writing is not easy for most people. Maybe you should try the prompts here in the Writer's Corner. Those are expected to be short flash pieces for the most part and make it a lot easier for authors to finish their ideas.