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Yep, it's that time of the year. What time? I hear you ask. It is the time when we are either thinking about or trying not to think about Christmas. It's also the time when many charitable organisations get the begging bowl out. I've already had my begging bowl out, been around the usual local companies and a few more. I've been lucky and received donations and promises of help from all that I have approached, and I am grateful for everything that has been received and promised. Now I've got the begging bowl out again. But I'm not asking anyone here for anything and I do not want any of you to send, or enquire about sending anything. I'm rattling the bowl on behalf of the charitable organisations local to you. Yes, local to you. As many know, I do what many others do and try to help people who find themselves homeless. What I'm asking is, what can you do? Can you afford to dig deep in your pockets and make a donation to a charity or shelter for homeless people near where you live? If you can then please give what you can afford, even if it's just the loose change in your pocket, they will be grateful for it and will use it wisely. Can you afford to give up some of your time? If you can then please volunteer to help them, they will be grateful for that too. Whatever you can give will be gratefully received, so please look up your local charities and organisations that help homeless people and donate to them whatever you can afford, whether it be time, money or both and if you can please continue to give throughout the year, homeless people need our help throughout the year, not just at Christmas time. I thank you in advance on their behalf and wish you all a Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays, whichever applies to you and your beliefs. I'll put the begging bowl away now, until next year, and thank you.

Hello guys. I live a day ahead of you so the new year came early to me. So I was going to be the first one to wish on the new year eve here on GA. And I am glad and very happy because of it. Another year passes Yet here comes another, anew. All the heart full wishes To be healthy To be lucky To be happy To enjoy life And To deal with it. Happy New Year On this occasion I want to share my happiness with you guys more by offering my NaPoWriMo books to guys for free. For I have took care of the all the things with Amazon. So April Tulips series is free for the new year day. So just grab it and enjoy reading about the part of my life, NaPoWriMo. Make the January 1st the Day if April Tulips... Here are the links for both of them. April Tulips 2016 Emi's Summer Tulips 2017 Enjoy the books and have a great day. And once again 'Happy New Year'...

🥳Happy New Year!🥳 Our Best Wishes to a great 2022 to one and all!

Members, we have a New Year's prize for you! Will you win? Did you catch our Thank You and Happy New Year message? We want to thank you for reading and taking the time to share your thoughts with GA's authors, writing nearly 50,000 story and chapter comments and hundreds of story reviews! What can you win? Prize 1: 3 months free Premium membership Prize 2: 1 month free Premium membership How can you enter to win? It's simple! Just do BOTH of the items below: Follow the GA News Blog (Click on the follow button in the blog banner above the post if you don't already follow it) Respond to this blog post. A couple of ideas on what you should comment on could be: What was your favorite story you commented or reviewed on in 2020? What stories do you hope to read in 2021? Do you have thoughts on new goals? How will winners be selected? All GA News Blog followers who also comment on this blog will have their names entered in a random.org drawing. 2 winners will be selected and shared on Sunday, January 9th.

Authors, you have been... so let us reward you! Did you read our Thank You and Happy New Year message? Don't miss it! In 2020, you published 319 new stories and over 4,000 chapter updates. You have worked hard, and we want to recognize those amazing accomplishments. Let's keep the writing flowing with some inspiration reads, perhaps, with these prizes you could ! What can you win? Prize 1: 3 months free Premium membership Prize 2: 1 month free Premium membership How can you enter to win? It's simple! Just do BOTH of the items below: Follow the GA Writing Tips blog (Click on the follow button in the blog banner above the post if you don't already follow it) Respond to this blog post. A couple of ideas on what you should comment on could be: What inspired you to write in 2020? Do you have any project you can't wait to write in 2021? Do you have thoughts on new GA Stories goals? How will winners be selected? All GA Writing Tips followers who also comment on this blog will have their names entered in a random.org drawing. 2 winners will be selected and shared on Sunday, January 9th.

Happy New Year to one and all. It is Friday so be ready to write, cause it is time for some new ideas to get you going. Prompt 804 - Creative Tag - First Line "The hell am I wasting my first kiss of the year on you!" Prompt 805 - Creative Tag - New Year You weren't feeling well last night so you went to bed early. The last thing you remember was wishing that everything would be better when you woke. As you open your eyes you notice the room is different. You go to get up and suddenly alarms go off and a nurse comes rushing in. When you finally calm down you are horrified when the nurse tells you, "I'm sorry but today is the first of January twenty-thirty." What happened to you? Did either appeal to you? Then write. Remember to share your story in the prompt forum. "Til next week - read, write, review, and like. Stay safe everyone.

2019, was really not a good year. There was a lot of pain, some backsliding. i’m not sure that the joys balanced it out. Will going over what happened help it make sense? Probably not. So instead of looking back, i thought i’d look forward. 2020, a new decade. Well, unless you’re my co-worker who insists that the new decade won’t start until Jan 2021, but i digress. While i’m not one to make “New Year’s Resolutions,” i’ve gotten a head start at a better year. Phil and i are making more of an effort to have real date nights. Time when we can concentrate on just us. It’s been nice going to dinner and talking about things other than kids, and what needs to be taken care of at home. i’ve started taking a supplement again, in order to get better sleep. Life is hard sometimes. It can be harder if you aren't sleeping well. i’ve renewed my commitment to having breakfast every morning, and eating a real lunch. It makes a difference in my productivity and mood when i'm not hungry. The hardest part of this, is that when i wasn't eating well, i started snacking again. Now i find that i'm craving the sugar again. i was given one of those smart watches that can track your movement during the day. It’s been set for moving 55 minutes every day. There’s a feature that reminds me to get up from my desk and move. What makes this one particularly easy is that most everyone in my office gets up to walk several times each day. i’m learning to leave work, at work. To not go over my to do list once i leave the office, and worry about what i wasn't able to take care of. Coupled with this is trying to remember that it's important to take a day off now and then. A real day off, not just a day to run errands, and attending to other "adulting" tasks. i’ve done a lot of work on forgiveness that will continue in the new year. Though i’ll never be able to forget the hurts, i’ve started calling my parents a couple of times a week. i am making an effort to keep the lines of communication open with my siblings. The events of last fall drove home the fact that life can, and does, change in an instant.. We feel that it’s also important since our parents haven’t been forthcoming with me regarding their health. i realize that there are going to be things that happen that i will have no control over; but these things, these things i can control. i hope that 2020 is good for you and yours, that you achieve your goals and never stop reaching for your dreams. Happy New Year

Wow! It's been over a year since my first and only blog post! Yikes! Well, fear not. I have returned. Some of you may have forgotten about lil' ole me since I haven't been active for several months (not to say that I don't lurk in the shadows of GA stalking you all... like Batman. But without a cool costume. Unless you count fun pajamas as a cool costume? Because right now I'm wearing bright yellow pajama pants with Homer Simpson's face all over them, and a yellow shirt with his face on it too. I match! And I'm so yellow that I look like a giant freaking banana or something... hmm...giant banana. I wonder whether that is appropriate imagery for GA. Maybe it's the perfect imagery for GA? Anyway, I digress...). If you have forgotten about me or are just hearing from me for the first time, my name is Dylan! *waits for applause* *crickets* Well nice to meet you, a**holes. Jk! * * * * * Now then, let's get down to business (to defeat...the Huns). 2014 is over, and we're moving into a bright new year! Sure, there are still war, famine, and disease in the world, but I'm confident that we'll be able to find enough goodness this year in ourselves and in others that will balance it all out. And if any of you should fall upon hard times this year, I sincerely wish you all the grace and strength in the world to overcome those rough patches. I'm glad 2014 is over. For me, it started out grand and beautiful, but then crashed and burned near the end. My girlfriend, Ariel, and I became closer than ever in the beginning of the year when we realized that we may want to spend the rest of our lives together. Even though we're in our older teens and many people would say that we didn't really mean that or were stupid, I honestly believed I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her. I still do... Anyway, we got 'engaged to be engaged' in January 2014. I asked her to be my wife one day and gave her a beautiful promise ring. She said yes, of course, and it was the happiest day of my life so far. But it was not to last... In May, she started to have slight feelings for her best friend, Johnny. Ugh. That guy is an a**. TOTAL douche in my eyes, but of course a ton of people love him. He's the star kicker for our varsity football team. He's not really popular, per se, but out of the people who know him, many love him. I met him in Freshman year, and he used to tease me EVERY day when I saw him by calling me "faggot". Yeah, THAT kind of a**hole. Then, when I started dating Ariel in sophomore year, I think he got jealous that I could win over such a beautiful girl. So, one day when I was sick at home, he sleazed his way over to talk to my girlfriend. And before I knew it, they were best friends. But of course, I didn't want to be that douche who tells his girlfriend who she can and can't be friends with! So I let them be friends...even though he wuld tease me all of the time in front of her. Ugh I loathe him. Well anyway, in May she cheated on me by kissing him. And she didn't tell me until the summer. Well, I forgave her because I loved her far too deeply to let her go. But lo and behold, the feelings for Johnny grew stronger and she broke up with me the week before my birthday (yes, REALLY!) and started dating him the same day. It was really, really hurtful...we had been together for 2 years. Then she told me I wasn't allowed to talk to her family anymore, which sucked... and 3 weeks after they started dating, I found out that she was wearing a promise ring from him and they had already 'done the do'. It took US a year to do either of those things...so like wtf, man? haha Anyway, besides that unfortunate series of events (yes, I'll stop prattling on about my stupid love drama now ), my dad has been sober for over a year now! I'm so proud of him! And...I got a new cat! Her name is "Halle" Halloween. Like "Halle" Barry, but furrier. She's a black short-hair. Which makes sense actually with the Halle Barry thing, because she was freaking Catwoman! I just realized that!!! Haha. Halle is a very goofy cat. She likes to play tag, and absolutely loves tablecloths. I put them on the table, she pulls them off! It's like she's... a frustrated interior decorator or something, I swear! My dog watches her like a form of television... she's the dog's entertainment! Hmm...I started my senior year this year, and I started applying to colleges. Scary process! But I've heard back from one already, and I've been accepted at San Diego State University! *Parties like it's 1999...then realizes I was only 3 then (#awkward)* Anyway, I'll wrap this up! My year has been filled with many good and bad things, as I'm sure all of yours were! And I wish you all the best going into this next year, as I already said. Thank you for letting me vent and practice my jokes Love you all! And Happy New Year! Cheers, Dylan

You weren't feeling well last night so you went to bed early. The last thing you remember was wishing that everything would be better when you woke. As you open your eyes you notice the room is different. You go to get up and suddenly alarms go off and a nurse comes rushing in. When you finally calm down you are horrified when the nurse tells you, "I'm sorry but today is the first of January twenty-thirty." What happened to you?

I'll be out of town for the new year, so I decided to post this little story early. Meet Marty in http://www.gayauthor...ingiseverything There are adults in this story, but no sex, and it dances around some adult topics, namely BDSM (or, as they like to call it around here, bsdm. lol), but it's not one of those "How we Met" stories. No, Marty and his boyfriend have been together for years. Thing is, Marty's no longer happy with the status quo and has developed a plan to change that. But, you know Murphy's Law? Chuck does, but Marty's still in denial. His plans are perfect; you'll see.

You made a new resolution for yourself this year. Unfortunately on the first day of the New Year problems immediately arose. What was your resolution?