ToddYoung

The problem seems to have been fixed. I can scroll down on both the US and UK sites - at least I can in Safari. It might be a browser based problem.

Before I found I could self-publish for money at Amazon and various other places, I used to look for sites where I could write my stuff and get feedback. In those days, just the idea of someone reading something I wrote was incredibly satisfying. I wrote at quite a few sites under various pseudonyms before I found Gay Authors. I only ever published one story here, called "Boy Friends" which I had to take down after I'd published it at Amazon, as under Amazon's Terms of Service, you can't have a story you publish with them generally available for free at another site. If anyone wants to read Boy Friends or any of my other stuff (Boy Friends is in the process of being turned into a novel at the moment) please feel free to PM me and ask for a copy. I want to support this site, but I can see, with the way self-publishing is changing things, sites like this are under attack. If you can write something and upload it at Amazon and get some money, then it's really the same thing as what is being offered here, although with the added possibility of an income. I don't think you get the same level of feedback at Amazon as you get at sites like GA, and a lot of what you do get in terms of reviews often isn't very nice or very encouraging, but I really wonder how sites like GA are going to survive. I think they're incredibly important, and if I had to choose between no money but X amount of readers versus some level of payment, along with the knowledge that no one had read what I'd written, then I'd choose the readers. Writing is about communicating (at least for me) -- saying something you want to say. It's kind of a shame in a way that the ease of writing on the Internet has become so quickly monetised, because there was really only a few years there in which people were writing some great stuff on free sites. This continues with fanfiction sites, but even there, as with Fifty Shades of Grey, what's being produced is finding its way into the mass market somehow. I think there's around 2000 books being published every month on Amazon. I'm a small fish, but I've managed to make it work for me at least to some extent. I really have to say I don't have a lot of time for reading these days, and when I do read, I like to read gay "literature" -- the best of what's being written in the gay world, and here I'd include novels such as Gionvanni's Room, Call Me by Your Name, Forbidden Colors (Yukio MIshima), Mysterious Skin, The Folding Star (or anything by Alan Hollinghurst except his latest novel. Occasionally I'll read something here or at Nifty, but I've got a couple of degrees, one in literature and another in creative writing, so I like to read stuff that's well-written. That kind of sounds like a joke when you look at the covers of my books, or even read them, but they're my bread and butter, and I'm writing other stuff under another pseudonym. I'd like to find a happy medium between romantic and erotic writing that is well-written, but an unputdownable read at the same time. I'm working towards it. I don't think anyone ever stops evolving as far as being a writer is concerned. So, anyway, that's how I found GA, and how I use it. I really should devote myself to spending some more time reading some of what is being written here, but I'm a sucker for forums, and have seven or eight open on my browser at any one time. And, of course, I have to keep writing. Same q.

I don't write lol lightly. In fact, I kind of hate it, but the neighbours must have heard me when I read this. That's one accepting church.

Oprah Winfrey (And I haven't cheated.)

And what, pray tell, would be ennui?

eradicate

Give into me pretty yodeler. YODEL

Nambour, Australia

I'd like one of those English manor houses, set amongst green woods, with a shrubbery, and walks and so on. An attic, and a mad former wife, like in Jane Eyre. Same question.

Maybe they should give up on the idea of it being a sheath, and somehow come up with a way of a man emitting nothing -- no fluids, if you know what I mean.

Hottest summer ever in Australia this year, and the amazing fact is that if you're 27 or under, you've never experienced a below average summer. I'm so pessimistic about global warming that I've all but given up. I think it's simply too late to do anything meaningful. Nothing is changing, and the "tipping" point they talk about has tipped as far as I can see.

Amazon generates most of my income, so it's difficult for me to express how this makes me feel. I can't be "anti-Amazon", as they pay the checks, but I'm really kind of pissed about this. Goodreads has a very different feel to Amazon. Most Goodreads reviews don't appear on the Amazon site, but they have a huge impact on the success of a book. What would worry me greatly would be to see the Goodreads reviews mothered into the Amazon reviews, in the same way they are now mothered into reviews at Kobo and Sony. And Goodreads is a good place to hang out. It's a good place to find fans and interact with people. I really can't see this as a positive move from the perspective of an independent author.

I'll ask you to excuse me for the stupidity of this joke in advance: This knotted up piece of rope walks into a bar and takes a seat on a barstool. "Can I have a beer?" The bartender (he's had a bit of a hard day) thinks hell, why not? He wipes the counter down and serves the knot his beer. "Can you pay for that?" he says. "I'm afraid not." [a frayed knot]

This is hard, because most people likely haven't read the sort of stuff I'd like to do fanfic on. So can I just say Twilight, with Bella as a guy (obviously). My absolute favorite would be to do a complete rehash of "The Hill: A Romance of Friendship" by Horace Annesley Vachell. It was published it 1907 and is set in a boy's boarding school. So it's not exactly a gay book, but is full of gay overtones. I'd like to rehash it completely. Bring it up to date. But anyway, if you haven't read it, you absolutely should. It's free at Gutenburg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20280 I forgot to ask a question. What movie or novel do you hate the ending to and how would you change it?

venture

Cities really extruded all marshmallows. MARSH

Isn't there something to be said about ordinary?

Dalls, TX/USA

Ignore.

Tell everything and speak excitedly. AFTKW

After an argument one night, my boyfriend and I went to bed angry. In the middle of the night I woke up to find that we were facing each other, holding hands in our sleep. What's the weirdest sexual fantasy you've ever had?

legally

Edmonton, Canada