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It seems lately that I've been doing an endless round of blogs, emails, and posts. When I haven't been doing that, I've been doing research. As is my habit, I've gone way overboard on the amount of reference material and writing books I've been sinking into. (Including being a super backer on Kickstarter now, having supported my 80th Kickstarter. Almost all of them on something world building related) But that brings to one of the many writing books I've zipped through recently. Write Right! A desktop Digest of Punctuation, Grammar and Style by Jan Venolia (Linked to the amazon print version above via an affiliate link to Amazon that hasn't paid squat in years). This is a great little book that condenses a lot of things into one handy book. I intend on using it as one of my references and inspirations for weekly blog that we are planning on starting up in the new year. But if you are a writer and you are looking to improve your grammar, this is a good tool for that.
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It'll be like the last anthology, due around Sep 1, 2022 with topic of "Anniversaries", or near enough to this that you can start planning.
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Thanks everyone that participated! 🥳 2022 marks Gay Authors 20 years as a website. The plan at this point is to have an Anniversary Themed Anthology due in September with a couple of other writing events throughout the year. @Cia and I will probably work out those details in the Christmas holiday break time frame.
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* * This is Not @Graeme
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I can't say I'm going to complain about one of the main actors . Sizzle (the blond plays Rand al' Thor in Wheel of Time): https://www.imdb.com/video/vi4031365401?ref_=nmvi_vi_imdb_7 I tried a couple of times to get into the book, but was always distracted before it could hook me. The trailer looks interesting, at least. (so does the one for Just Friends. lol)
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I'm not sure all of these secrets getting out is a good thing. Apparently I have more code to tweak. as for the test server badge, I have it on good authority that you aren't supposed to cross the streams... and the badge on the test server crosses the Google stream...
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Gay Authors has General Primary Genres (such as General Fiction, Romance and Fantasy) and dozens of sub-genres. Authors can only assign sub-genres to their stories. The primary genres are listed based on sub-genres selected. A list of all genres/sub-genres with their descriptions can be found here: https://gayauthors.org/stories/browse/genre-tag/ To select a genre for your story: identify the most prominent part of your story. Example: If you are writing a Romance, where you are focused on the Romance, then go to the Romance Primary Genre and select an appropriate Sub-genre. If your romance occurs in the modern day select Contemporary Romance as your sub-genre Example 2: If you are writing a Romance that happens to be set in the Old West, you can select Romantic Western but if you happen to be writing a Western that as romantic elements you can select Western - Western Romance. The difference is about what is primary. Is it a Western that happens to have romantic elements or is a Romance that happens to be set in a Western? Example 3: If you are writing a Drama, Coming of Age, or Rich Boy type story that is very common in our corner of the internet, then the Primary Genre is "General Fiction" and there are sub-genres for each of the examples above. Select 1-4 Sub-genres. If you are going over that, then it is highly likely your story has one of the following issues: Not focused. Your story cannot be crossing a dozen genres and have much meaning in most of them. Experimental. If you are trying to make an epic Western Fantasy Sci-fi Romantic Thriller Drama, I'm happy for you and your editor. Good luck finding a reader that isn't turned off by one or more of that combination. If you really want to do that much, go to General Fiction and select "Experimental" as the sub-genre. Probably violating a sub-genre trope. A fairly large number of the sub-genres are actually defined by their tropes. And if you're not following the trope, you're not appropriately using the sub-genre. A larger number of sub-genres can be used on longer stories, especially those stories in speculative fiction (such as Fantasy, Science Fiction and Paranormal). Even then you should not be going above 6-7 sub-genres on an epic.
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