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  1. 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 ...

    - 2015/10/09 - 5:44pm - 12 comments

  2. 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 ...

    - 2015/11/08 - 4:57pm - 7 comments

  3. 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 ...

    - 2015/11/08 - 4:58pm - 7 comments

  4. 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 ...

    - 2015/12/14 - 12:27pm - 1 comment

  5. 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' ...

    - 2015/12/14 - 4:48pm - 18 comments

  6. 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 ...

    - 2015/12/31 - 11:15am - 12 comments

  7. 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 ...

    - 2016/01/05 - 12:22am - 9 comments

  8. 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 ...

    - 2016/01/15 - 2:48am - 15 comments

  9. 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 ...

    - 2016/01/17 - 5:35pm - 4 comments

  10. 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 ...

    - 2016/01/25 - 9:11pm - 5 comments

  11. 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 ...

    - 2016/01/28 - 9:29am - 3 comments

  12. 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 ...

    - 2016/02/09 - 9:39am - 14 comments

  13. 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 ...

    - 2016/02/09 - 9:39am - 11 comments

  14. 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 ...

    - 2016/02/13 - 6:17pm - 21 comments

  15. 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. ...

    - 2016/02/13 - 6:17pm - 4 comments

  16. "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 ...

    - 2016/02/18 - 10:34pm - 5 comments

  17. 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 ...

    - 2016/02/24 - 1:44pm - 1 comment

  18. 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 ...

    - 2016/03/02 - 2:41pm - 7 comments

  19. 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 ...

    - 2016/03/20 - 6:48am - 3 comments

  20. 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 ...

    - 2016/03/27 - 6:13pm - 4 comments

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