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Click on a section to learn more about what it contains. CONTENTS lists everything here, making it easy to find what you'd like, including what's new.  POEMS will list them for you, with brief descriptions. The Circle is a 330,000 word novel about turning sixteen.  Short Stories are several short stories ranging from 5 thousand to 15 thousand words, varying widely in theme and content. SHORTIES will list and shortly describe the short stories that are under five thousand or so words; some are merely a hundred or so words long.  Deals is the latest short story series. Male beauty will show off my taste in guys.  Guestbook and forums if you'd like to leave a note. Further down this page you will find a description of the RATINGS SYSTEM as well as A FEW NOTES on this and that including how I handle expressive emphasis and scene changes.   

RATINGS

At the head of each story you will find a colored text with the rating and content codes.

So many writers use different ways of expressing louder or emphasized spoken words in dialog. Some use ALL CAPS while others use bold or italicized words to signify they were spoken louder or with more emphasis.

Myself, I prefer these methods:

A character emphasizing a word among others, and only saying it slightly louder or clearer will be in bold.
"There is no fucking way!" if someone wasn't yelling 'no', but only saying 'no' slightly more emphatically. 
"There is no fucking way!" would mean the entire sentence was said with strong emphasis, as in surprise or slight anger.
"There is no fucking way." may be a character's internal dialog or thoughts at giving up on a situation.

ALL CAPS are yelled words or phrases inside dialog. Usually spoken near top volume or over a lot of background sounds.
For instance, a character shouting at someone else in a loud night club as loudly as possible would be in all caps.  "WHAT?" 
"NO FUCKING WAY!" if someone yelled the words at full volume, as if in anger or very emphatically.

To mix the methods. . . .
"I said no, and I meant, NO!"
In this instance, the first 'no' was slightly emphasized, while the second 'no' was shouted, or nearly so.

There are rare cases where I will use both on the same words. This would signify a complete shouting at full volume in anger, hate or rage.

"I SAID TO FUCK OFF!" or "I said to FUCK OFF!" would be identical uses and meanings, or so nearly so that any difference would be moot.

I use ' ' to emphasize words in narration or third party narrative emphasis. 

Use of asterisks to denote scene changes

When a scene changes within a chapter, I will denote that with five asterisks with double-spaced line returns before and after, like so. . . 

*****

This will denote a major scene change. Often a space of time has been spanned as well. 
When a minor scene changes, or to delineate smaller changes of situation, often between continuing characters in the same location but at a time later, I will use three asterisks with single-spaced line returns before and after, like so. . . 

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This replaces phrases such as "The next morning" or "Later that day" and is used for a fade-out/fade-in effect quite often.

A FEW NOTES AND CONTACTS