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This is really great advice to keep in mind while writing. Don has been doing this a long time and his works really grab a hold of you and pull you in. Keep these things in mind while you write and you'll appreciate the results. I know I do.

There are a number of stories deep in the Nifty Archives that preceded this with the rich gay archetype, but I do thing you are correct that this is the first one to spread out further. Mostly due to the really engaging writing, I'd say.

Welcome to my little potpourri of updates. It has been a little while again. As it happens, I get way too busy bouncing all over the place with all the stuff I'm doing. Some personal stuff first... the project I started two years ago with my mother after dad died is now pretty much done. We converted the back porch of the house into a very nice family room that is pretty much all windows. (There are 15 windows in the room). It turned into a great place for me to write and to read when I stayed there during my vacation from work. Mom is also very happy with it, which is the most important part, of course. I can also report that the mancave I built in the barn at moms is also finished stage 1. Aside from the nice Phillips Hue lights in the room, I have some black lights mounted on the back of the projection screen. There are no windows, so this room can truly be a cave. As for the site, we have worked out the majority of the bugs from the transition to the new software. Just in time for the next transition, it seems. Forum software 4.2 is in Beta 8 and is scheduled to be released in the first week of August or there about. We will be waiting until 4.2.0.2 or so before we upgrade if we even have our software update ready for that. Stories do work with the update already, but some new features aren't integrated yet. We hope to have that all set by the time the software is ready to upgrade. The upgrade to the new version should not cause all the issues we just went through, as the hardest parts are now behind us. I am also in the process of writing the specifications for the next feature update to stories that focuses on adding the "Reading Lists" feature into stories. This will also replace our dodgy "Favorite Author" and "Favorite Stories" list with something much more useful and obvious. In addition to that stuff, I have also been researching business and marketing stuff. With our business model, we need a constant flow of new people and new material and the success of eBooks has taken away a lot of our feeder streams. These means that we have to take more effort, time and resources in order to further develop our own stream. We are working on a bunch of stuff that's more long term development in nature. It is exactly what the revenues from Premium Content gets sunk into. If you don't already subscribe, doing so keeps this train moving: In addition to all of that, we are also working on developing more writing resources for our authors. Comicality has been very kind in helping me out with articles for a new feature that will be coming later this summer. I hope to get that set up so we have regular articles and other helpful material to be released on a regular schedule. I've also been making an effort to write something every day. None of it is worthy of you guys seeing yet, but it will be when I get back into the regular swing of things. I promise. That's all for now. I'll try to do this more regularly, even if it is just to bs a bit.

I saw that they were going to do it. I put the Castlevania show they made onto my watch list too, for when I finally get to it.

Happy Birthday!

I think there might have been an issue with the cached files that got corrected when we got the released version of Stories.

Yes. You switched your Theme to the developmental Theme. I didn't have it locked since most people don't actually fuss with the theme options. I've reset to the default theme and locked the developmental to Site Admin only.

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It looks like the code added in the last Stories update to remember custom sorting details and drop them after a set time (an hour?) is catching the signed in status as well. If you have been logged in and not created a new cookie... it should stay... if you logout, then it corrupts the cookie. I think. I've alerted the programmer and hopefully it'll be fixed in the next few hours.

I think it might tie to a change in Stories. We're looking into it.

banner, logos, whatever

My confusion came in from "missing banner" and seeing the two banners that should have been there. I did not notice the text for a third.

That appears to be a bug because the author logo shouldn't be there. I've removed it and sent a note to the programmer to update the code.

What aren't you seeing?

Happy Birthday!

@Timothy M. First, I separated this from the other topic as Author list has nothing to do with Signatures. Please keep each question in this forum to a single topic, per the instructions posted at the top of the forum. The images in that list are hosted off from Amazon Web Services, so it is possible that they aren't loading properly for you at some point. They work fine here right now. Are you still seeing the issue?

The "Filter" section now has Status in it. so you can now quickly sort for completed: https://www.gayauthors.org/stories/browse/?sortby=story_last_update&filter=status_1

Go to Help on the menu on the top if every page. https://www.gayauthors.org/help.html/ See the sections Authors and Stories System The video will help after you change your account to author. Make sure you read the posting rules.

With the background knowledge that I have owned every game Bioware has released in the last 20 years from Baldur's Gate (twice in fact, I bought the enhanced edition re-release) to now... I was fully expecting and looking forward to Bioware's new game. Bioware is known for the high quality stories (the rush job on Mass Effect being the only recent bad blip in recent memory) but there was no story evident in the trailer for Anthem. I hope this is just trailer emphasis and not the actual total lack of story. This game reminds me WAY too much of Destiny and The Division. Two decent games I own... but never ever play. I like playing a variety of games but some of these games require fanatic dedication to be any good in order to enjoy the MMO-crap they attach to the games. That said, Bioware has Star Wars The Old Republic which is the only MMO I could ever tolerate because you can basically play completely on your own with great story and not worry too much about the MMO crap. Anthem... I'm being cautious on. The graphics look outstanding and the flying mech suits look like great fun.... but...

Ok. I was not expecting my favorite trailer of the 42 games shown at Microsoft's E3 press briefing to be Assassin's Creed... but damn. Talk about Eagle Vision. lol.

Well, I know what I'm getting on launch day! $499 isn't bad either.

The camp from that Batman dwarves the camp around here... RIP Adam West, you definitely made your mark sir. He was a playable character in Lego Batman 3. Lots of funny lines in there from him.

Well, I feel a strange need to replay the first one.

Well, this at least peaks my interest on the fantasy side. The graphics seem a bit rough after watching the Star Wars Battlefront 2 trailer though. lol.

Again, Holy Crap Batman! The gameplay quality looks like you are playing the movie. And it's in alpha. I watched a stream match from the EA E3 briefing.