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I will answer this slightly differently... I created Gay Authors because I got tired of hunting all over the place for good gay stories that had plot. Not that I didn't enjoy the Nifty Erotica Archives . Not long after I started Gay Authors, I created the forums so we had some place to chat about stories. For those of you that weren't around back in 2003, Yahoogroups and varius little forums were the places you could chat with others. Gay Authors put them together. We started off with custom websites for each author that were heavy to maintain. (We only have 2 of those lurking out there still... https://cjames.gayauthors.org and http://comicality.gayauthors.org ) Hosted Authors eventually morphed into Signature Authors. Around 2008, I think it was, we implemented eFiction as @Krista mentioned. it's a still a thing out there: https://efiction.org/ I really didn't like having to maintain so many different sites and efiction to, so in late 2010, we created the Story Archive as an App for the InvisionCommunity. And we've been running it ever since. The very large major changes to the system are lurking in the background. Hopefully we'll be entering into Alpha testing this week for the new V5 Stories app. Once that's working, we'll be able to jump to the 5.0.X version of the Forum software, which has major overhauls making it more visual and more mobile-friendly. Why do I stay? There has not been a single day that I haven't been on the site doing something since 2003. The amount of time I put in keeping things running and operating properly is more than I like to think about. I keep doing it though because people enjoy the site. And I still get some communication every so often thanking me because Gay Authors was there when someone was having a rough time in their life. That makes it worth it. How Long Can We Go? I don't know. The last 10 months or so have seen the biggest change to the Internet since social media went wild. And if you aren't in the space, you may not notice much yet. But lots of websites are going to start going dark. Google is killing the internet to try to save itself from AI. It's not going to go well. To simplify for those who just browse things... Websites used to create content that would attract Google Search Bots, and when people used Google to search for things, Google would send them to their website. Google sold ads both on its search results page and, usually, on the site it directed you to. But with AI search, the AI now provides the answer without needing to go to the site. A lot easier for people trying to find a quick answer, but it kills the source of information. Which is why you see news sites going under, merging, or going pay to use. Because our content is such that we aren't here to answer questions, but to provide reading material, our traffic has not been impacted as much, but we're still down. And ad revenue has dropped 70%. And to keep what we're getting, Google keeps making the ads more and more annoying, which annoys all of us. If we didn't have Premium Membership, Gay Authors would close. We are running in a critical state for Premium Membership as well. I've been holding off messaging this widely, until we complete our upgrades. We'll then focus on more recruiting. But if you enjoy Gay Authors and can afford to do so, Premium Membership and Sustaining Membership literally keep us open. https://gayauthors.org/subscriptions/

I was reflecting on Gay Authors and my journey when I noticed we're coming up on 23 years since I launched the forums. A lot has happened in that time. A few of the things that showed up in that timeframe... Social Media, YouTube, Kindle, streaming services... a lot. Gay Authors has continued to grow slowly throughout that time. As I look out at the rapidly changing internet landscape and think about how I can make Gay Authors survive another 23 years, I was wondering... How did you find Gay Authors? and What made you stay?

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Top Read Poems since Poetry Deep Dive 9 Top 6 Most Read Poetry - Ballad a poem that tells a story and was traditionally set to music. Usually follows a form of rhymed (abcb) quatrains alternating four-stress and three-stress lines. Bragi's Bagatelles by Parker Owens Complete Gentle Healer by Ticklishboy30 Complete Around the Bend - NaPoWriMo 2022 by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold A year of schoolwork: poems I submitted for a grade by MythOfHappiness Complete A Loving Memory by Ticklishboy30 Complete Broken Angel by Ticklishboy30 Complete Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Blank Verse a poem with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter. 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No stories Top 1 Most Read Poetry - Confessional Features intimate and personal revelations, often drawing on the poet's own experiences, emotions, and struggles. Family embrace by Jean87 Complete Top 0 Most Read Poetry - Ekphrastic Poetry Responds to or describes a work of visual art, capturing the essence of a painting, sculpture, or other visual medium through words. No stories Top 0 Most Read Poetry - Epic Poetry a lengthy narrative poem, typically set in the far past, involving heroic and extraordinary adventures and dealings of people with gods or other superhuman forces. 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While there are several schools of Haiku writing, the most faithful to the original will use some aspect of the natural world as its subject, and will not contain any personal references to the writer/observer. tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy In Process Headstall's Poetry Prompts by Headstall Complete April Musings by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold NaPoWriMo - 2017 by Emi GS Complete By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold Poems and Short Quips by MacGreg Long-Term Hold NaPoWriMo-2016 by Emi GS Complete Kavya, My Poetry by asamvav111 Complete Puppilull's poetry prompts by Puppilull Long-Term Hold Musings of a Mongoose by Cynus Complete Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Limerick a poem that is typically humorous and bawdy, written in five-line, predominantly anapestic trimeter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme. tim's Bits and Pieces by Mikiesboy In Process Timmy's Journal by Mikiesboy Complete Kavya, My Poetry by asamvav111 Complete Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete Alex's Little Book of Poems by Alex Complete My Poems, Satires & Other Lyrical Nonsense by D.K. 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NaPoWriMo 2022 by Aditus Complete Fountain, Field and Forest by Parker Owens Complete Top 10 Most Read Poetry - Rhyming a poem containing two or more words that repeat the same or similar sounds in the final syllable, usually placed at the end of lines placed so they echo each other By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete Marvin B Erotic Poetry Collection by Marvin B Temporary Hold Birds by Parker Owens Long-Term Hold Blackbird Singing by raven1 Long-Term Hold Treasures Found by Headstall Complete The Spider and the Flea by Lee Wilson Complete Haiku, Secret, and Wisdom by Headstall Complete Something in the Way by Lee Wilson Complete Seasoned to Taste by Aditus Complete Top 5 Most Read Poetry - Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, typically containing ten syllables per line, traditionally using iambic pentameter. A sonnet must contain a turning point (or, volta), in which the thread of the theme changes direction. There are three main sorts of sonnet: Italian (or, Petrarchan), Shakesperean, and Spenserian; each of these has a different rhyme scheme. The Italian rhymes ABBAABBA CDCDCD or ABBAABBA CDECDE; the Shakespearean uses ABAB CDCD EFEF GG; the Spenserian ABAB BCBC CDCD EE. By Chance or Appointment by Parker Owens Temporary Hold Fireworks & Rain by Aditus Complete Delicious Delights by Aditus Complete Bragi's Bagatelles by Parker Owens Complete Around the Bend - NaPoWriMo 2022 by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold Top 1 Most Read Poetry - Translation a poem translated from another language Around the Bend - NaPoWriMo 2022 by Valkyrie Long-Term Hold

Me either! Hopefully entering alpha testing this week. We used to have to do that before we went to our Story Archive software. We have over 80 chapters per week... if we had to manually post and review those, we'd go crazy.

People who like the features of Gay Authors (Power users) vs people who think Gay Authors is too complicated and needs to be simple, "Like Nifty".

I'll weigh in here to clarify a few things. Every site out there has its quirks, advantages, and disadvantages. From a Gay Authors standpoint, we support crossposting on whatever sites you want to post at. For our promoted authors, we ask that you post to Gay Authors first. And while authors can certainly post about their individual experiences with different sites, please be careful to not paint an entire site with the same brush as, for whatever reason, what you experience may be an individual issue versus a common one. We certainly have come down hard on people in the past for reasons specific to them. Obviously, we don't do that to everyone, and I wouldn't want other places portraying us as such. Thus, I give respect to others. I am crossposted on FanFiction.net for my FanFiction stories. I might post to AO3 sometime. I certainly read fanfictions there the most these days. @W_LMy research is telling me that your story type is appealing to a younger demographic, which Gay Authors is currently weak on. One of my main focuses on the massive software upgrade that's going on is to do a large overhaul of Gay Authors with a focus on appealing to the younger audience while maintaining functionality for power users and simplifying things for the non-power users. And once we have all the software in place, I'll be working specifically to expand Gay Authors' audience base. It's hard to do so now, since we are viewed as clunky forums and lists by modern standards.

Babylon 5 is my favorite Sci-Fi series. It really drove television to tell long-form stories instead of weekly stand-alones. JMS was pretty genius with how he structured things every single episode of every season moved things forward AND he designed it to be binged before there was a streaming service binging thing. Yes, the new owners of Paramount want Star Trek to be Star Trek again.

I have all The Original Series, Next Gen, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. I like them all. The new stuff has great visuals. And some gay characters. But the writing is usually awful and inconsistent. They have sonar in space and other extreme stupidity. The Message went from being part of the story, to being the only purpose of the story. If you like being told and shown how evil white men are, then those new shows are for you. They regularly destroyed canon too. If you care about even pretending to tie into being Star Trek.... then the new shows are all skinsuits pretending to be Star Trek. So, if you hate Star Trek and love getting lectures pretending to be entertainment, then you'll like the shows. Except for Picard Season 3, which they snuck past that idiot Alex Kurtzman. I'm told that it is a great send-off for Star Trek: The Next Generation fans. Though Picard Seasons 1 and 2 totally destroyed them first... so I haven't watched it yet either.

I can get it to happen if I use Private browsing on Firefox. If you are using Private browsing, you are blocking stuff. At your end.

It's an issue at your end.

https://gayauthors.org/writing/112_publishing-on-gay-authors/story-descriptions-sell-the-tension-not-the-plot-summary-r8/

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