Brayon

I've had tears ever chapter. For this one, it's not all for sadness.

I've said it several times, but I know it's true. You are stronger than I ever could be. I swear now, that it was Providence that brought you and Mike together.

I have no words right now. I'm glad they added more reactions to the "like" system. I wanted to use the angry react, but my heart is too broken right now.

We talk a lot, and have become good friends over the past year and a half or so. You've mentioned your past a few times, we even talked about it today. This brought tears to my eyes. Even the poem you wrote and included in the store, which I'm assuming was the first poem you ever wrote, was full of emotion. Hugs man, lots of virtual hugs.

Thanks! I'll add later when I do an update. I notice a couple of things that I missed when transferring it over from the forums. Also, the forums are out of date as of right now.

Awesome!!! Thanks for the hard work y'all do!

Yuppers. Giles gets teased that he was almost a December baby, by the other three all the time. All lucky coincidence that they are all close together in the birthday department. It's with @Kitt, I sent it to her this morning for the edits. As soon, as I get it back, and do some final changes, I'll post it. 🙂 Working on chapter 3 now, so it will ready for editing soon.

Yeas, among other scams that were talked about in the article.

First off the link: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal I'm a Reddit user, so when I'm not here trawling GA for good stories, and talking to friends, I'm over there reading several subreddits. I came across his article linked in r/writers. It's a very long article that talks about several scams that a cabal of romance writers was doing to scam Kindle Unlimited, to pad their paychecks. Scams from bookstuffing, to selling their mailing-lists, to reviewing each other's books in newsletters to their fans, and trademark and copyright law gaming. It's sickening, what sort of low someone would go to. It's bad enough that tech these days, allows people, who should never be published (e.g. Fifty Shades, Twilight), can go the route of small press and self-publishing to produce a stellarly craptastic book, but then to add insult to injury, they then scam the system to take money away from people that play by the rules. It's not limited to just Hetero-Romance either. I recently read on r/LitRPG that an author of that genre was banned from KU for doing the exact same practices.

Thanks for the comment, and for reading!

Thanks for the comment, and for reading!

Thank you for reading, I appreciate the feedback.

I do a bullet point plotting for each chapter I do in a story. The bullet points would be scene by scene with some minor details. To me, a short story is one to three chapters. I even do this for stories with more than 3 chapters, with one exception; I have another level of bullet points that oversees the general arc. It would look something like this: Story Title: The Time Traveler Chapter 1: Time 1. In the device and off to the distant past. A. First meeting when 10 yrs old. B. Tells 10 yrs old self to watch for bullies in the woods C. Watch in stealth. 2. A few years forward. A. Second meeting when 15 yrs old. B. Tell self not to inform parents that you're gay. C. Watch to make sure nothing happens. 3. Last meeting. A. Third meeting when 20 yrs old. B. Tell self to say Yes. C. Return to future. 4. Paradox or bust. A. Did it work? B. What major changes happened? C. Who's that guy coming to talk to me? 1. Future self, telling you Not to go into the past. I will admit, I like some of the different approaches you all use, and I think I may try them out.

I'm not too familiar with Baseball, though Brayon Hopper plays, as you see above, and in the Rogue's Gallery on the My Son discussion page. But you're close. They have a boat now.

Saw this on Reddit, but a new writing tool is out from Stanford. It's free, and picks up more errors than Grammarly. Reddit: Tool on Standord: https://crio.stanford.edu/ Off-topic: Awesome, we have Visual links for Reddit here!!!!

I've written a few sex scenes for my stories, I've published here on GA. All of them have been condomless. Just personal preference. However, I have several non-published ones, where they are used between the partners. To me, it's less about societal norms, and more about the story and the characters in the story. Also, a number of my sex scenes happen off-stage and well use your imagination as to what they do. 😉

I went back through the club to look at topics that I think where this was discussed. I personally would like to see a breakdown between member and non-member readers, and repeat readers for members. Not asking to see who is looking at my stories, but if the same member has come back and re-read after a chapter's been posted. I like how you posted in one thread the breakdown by country the top 23 countries traffic is coming from. While it's just a personal curiosity, I'd like to be able to see more of that. If it's trackable, seeing if someone is coming to the story via the website search functions vrs. someone clicking on the url directly to the story. I've shared links to stories, both mine and others, and it would be helpful to see if they are being utilized. I liked how you gave us a breakdown, even in a chart form, of the different genres, and how they are being used. With stories, being able to have multiple genres, is there a way to see that broken down further to show single genre stories, vrs. multiples?

I've updated the Rogue's Gallery, fixed some typos, and made it more readable. Thank you @Bft for pointing out some of the discrepancies. 🙂

Notice the Rainbows. It was debuted at ComicCon International, and it's intentionally designed this way. It's supposed to be Gender Neutral. Other rumors in this series Dr. Who... the Female Doctor might be BiCurious.

They were pulled directly from the story. Typo. He was born 11/25/2001, the same day as Brayon and Chandon. Duncan and Adam are a year apart and were best friends in High School and the BSA. They are not father and son. Pulled directly from the story, but he's Adam's spitting image.

My High School PE coach once said, "99% of all men masturbate. The other 1% lie about it."

Rogue’s Gallery TC1 – A New Life and a New Home Jill Bolton – Doctor who works at Tampa General Hospital, ER attending and Surgeon, mother of Chandon Bolton. 40y/o. Date of Birth: 06/01/1977 Description: 5’6”, Black Hair, Green Eyes, and Olive Skin color. Chandon Bolton – Student at H. B. Plant HS, GSA Club President. 16y/o. Date of Birth: 11/25/2001. Description: 5'9" medium build, with olive skin coloring, hazel eyes, and tight curly black hair. Grecian descendant. Brayon Hopper – Student at H.B. Plant HS, disowned by parents for being gay, lives with Chandon and Jill, is Chandon’s boyfriend. Hockey Player and Baseball Player. 16y/o. Date of Birth: 11/25/2001 Description: 5'11" with an athletic build, pale skin, green eyes, and red hair. Irish descendant. Other Characters: Simon – Jill’s contact with the Florida Department of Children and Families. TC2 – My Son Adam Smith – Retired Multi-millionaire, business owner, graduate of M.I.T., Doctorate Degree in Engineering with a concentration in Medicine and Medical. (Double Doctorate). 38y/o Date of Birth: 2/25/1980. Description: Adam stood six-foot-two-inches and was built like a lumberjack. Powerful chest and arms, and well-defined legs, brown curly hair, and sea green eyes. Hairy across chest, arms, and legs. Robert Turner – Adam’s son. Student at H.B. Plant HS, was originally from Boston, MA. Was assaulted in foster care in MA. Plays Hockey and Lacrosse. 16y/o. Date of Birth: 11/25/2001. Description: Robert was Adam's spitting image. Same hair, and similar build, but was a little shorter at five-foot-ten-inches. He had his mother’s eyes of crystal blue though. Has a nasty looking scare on his left shoulder blade, and a tribal-designed tattoo of a Phoenix in flight on his right shoulder and right side of his chest. The tattoo can be covered by a shirt. Duncan Isen – Adam’s best friend, and later becomes his husband. Stay at home Dad. Has a degree in the culinary arts, and is a skilled chef. Family owns a cleaning business that he has inherited. Bisexual and has an ex-wife named Cheryl. 37y/o. Date of Birth: 04/10/1981 Description: The man was tall and slender and appeared to be the same age as his father, with a mop of curly black hair and sea green eyes. Giles O’Sullivan – GSA Vice-President at H.B. Plant HS. Hockey Player. Rob’s boyfriend. 16y/o. Date of Birth: 11/30/2001 Description: He looked to be the same age and height as Rob, with bushy shoulder length dirty blond hair and a copper sun-tan over an athletic frame. Other Characters: Derrick and Samantha Smith – Adam’s Parents Tibot Smith – Adam’s Brother Carol Smith – Cousin of Adam, and Family Law specialist Lawyer. Jace – Adam’s Business partner Sylvia Cramer – Caseworker for FL DCF on Rob’s case Michelle Turner – Rob’s mom. Doctor Malcolm Knowles - Therapist TC3 – A Few Days in the Life of Jeremy Isen Jeremy Isen – Student at H.B. Plant HS, Photo-journalist, Martial Arts enthusiast, Asexual(?). 15y/o. Date of Birth: 8/1/2002. Description: Jeremy stood 5’2”, he hadn’t hit his final growth spurt. He wasn’t fat but had some muscle mass to him from his Jeet Kune Do training. He kept his brown hair cut short, and his brown eyes were always taking in his surroundings.