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I do not get it
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I just don't get it. Two stories by great and very skilled authors go with almost no kudos and comments. It is honestly disgusting that this happens. Mad, jus ...
Gwen Brown - 2015/10/09 - 5:44pm - 12 comments
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Found My Dream...
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing It used to break my heart that I am not a popular writer here, and last night sorting through some old papers I happened upon the results of an old MAPPS test I to ...
Gwen Brown - 2015/11/08 - 4:57pm - 7 comments
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Football Girl...
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Burly footballers are left reeling by rival's incredible skills on the pitch- when 'he' removes wig and make-up to reveal she's a woman Read mo ...
Gwen Brown - 2015/11/08 - 4:58pm - 7 comments
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Comment size limit?
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing This afternoon I notice that a comment I was posting on "Jenny's Story, Ch 6" was having the last paragraph cut off. Is this a temporary issue or is ...
Gwen Brown - 2015/12/14 - 12:27pm - 1 comment
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My Writing and win10
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I've been working to complete a story that I started years ago and trying to fight off the relentless win10 boogieman. With so many open projects, I don' ...
Gwen Brown - 2015/12/14 - 4:48pm - 18 comments
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Story Character Research
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing In doing research for a story character, I am building a little boy, the heir of an Arab family, who was kidnapped from the UAE at age 4 and brought to the US, cas ...
Gwen Brown - 2015/12/31 - 11:15am - 12 comments
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Replacing a published story
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing The talk of Gor, and Gorean stories ignited an exploration of my own stories that are similar. I found one that was written back in 2007 when I was even nuttier th ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/01/05 - 12:22am - 9 comments
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Arabic and Drupal
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Will Drupal take character sets other than western? I can see a "charset=iso-8859-6- Arabic Alphabet (ISO)", but have no idea how to try it. The project ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/01/15 - 2:48am - 15 comments
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Twilight vs Bike
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Watching Twilight 2 for about the 4th time to keep the daemons at bay tonight when I was struck at the similarities between it and Bike. Simon and Cathy are saying ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/01/17 - 5:35pm - 4 comments
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Shannara series
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I know this is going to bump my other blog off but this is more important. The new Series "Shannara" is OK but I think there are several authors here who ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/01/25 - 9:11pm - 5 comments
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Writing and things
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing So I was sitting in a local club in my normal Hijabi style with a blind woman from Ethiopia. We had come there to listen to the charming music of her country. The ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/01/28 - 9:29am - 3 comments
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Extremely ill and slow recovery
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing The counter thingie says I've been a pest here for slightly over 9 years or 2006. I first published at "Story Site" in 2001, probably after I return ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/02/09 - 9:39am - 14 comments
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Crossing unthinkable boundaries
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing Working on a story, I seem to have crossed an unthinkable boundary. In working out the details of a plot so that human colonists could flee Earth, I roughed in the ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/02/09 - 9:39am - 11 comments
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Ever Read Your Own Stories?
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing A story I was working on (Remember "Houston we have a problem"?) just flamed out and fell into the ocean. It is clear that I have different "writing ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/02/13 - 6:17pm - 21 comments
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TG, GID Changing the Commentary
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I am offering this simply to see if it is time to expand our thinking, to end the denial, the guilt; to see if we can somehow be led to happier lives. ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/02/13 - 6:17pm - 4 comments
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"Peaches" Revisited
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I believe I read "Peaches" the first time when it was just out. I was likely in the middle of my own very traumatic emergence and likely did not enjoy it ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/02/18 - 10:34pm - 5 comments
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Teaching in Saudi Arabia
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing In the last week or so, I corresponded with someone who is teaching school in Saudi Arabia, Maths I think. Was that someone here? I had hoped to talk with them fur ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/02/24 - 1:44pm - 1 comment
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Grammarly
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing I have been seeing advertisements for "Grammarly", an editing tool. At first glance it seemed like it could be useful. I recall that Wordperfect used to ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/03/02 - 2:41pm - 7 comments
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Big Closet Top Shelf; a purpose should you choose it.
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing New authors here can make of this site almost what they choose to make it. The first sites I published on were cranky and one even altered some of my stories such ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/03/20 - 6:48am - 3 comments
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Gaia's Avatar by Terry Volkirch
Author: Gwen Brown Gwen Brown's blog Blog About: Authors / Stories / Books / Writing This story was published back in 2008, how did I miss it? It is quite fun actually. Gwen ...
Gwen Brown - 2016/03/27 - 6:13pm - 4 comments