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Welcome to Action August! I find action scenes to be some of the most challenging scenes to write because I have to include enough description to allow readers to visualize what’s happening in their heads without overloading them with details that slow down the fast pace. That means I can’t be too wordy, which is a challenge in itself at times for me. So when I do manage to find that perfect balance and construct a well-paced, cinematic, action-packed scene, I feel proud of myself. That’s why, this week, I’m counting down my five favorite action scenes!

Read“Throwback Thursday #15: Top Five Favorite Action Scenes”

With just one week left in July, we’re wrapping up the month with jokes! This week, I’m blogging about my favorite humor stories. Comedy may not the genre I’m best known for writing, but I do enjoy occasionally taking a break from the drama to write something light and funny! With that being said, I do have a rather twisted, morbid sense of humor, so even my comedies tend to be a little dark. Here are my top five favorite comedic fics!

Read“Throwback Thursday #14: Top Five Favorite Comedic Fics”

Can you believe it? Not only are we halfway through 2025 and this series of twenty-five retrospective blogs for Dreamer’s Sanctuary’s twenty-fifth anniversary, but we’re just one day away from the release of Millennium 2.0 and the start of the new residency! To commemorate the occasion, I’m throwing it way back to the Millennium era for this week’s blog. The Millennium era will always be one of my favorite BSB eras, as it’s when I went from a casual fan to a die-hard fan, attended my first concert, discovered fanfic, and eventually started writing it myself. My first stories took place during the Millennium era, too. Considering I was fourteen when I started writing fanfic, these fics are far from my best work and don’t hold a candle to my adult writing. But I’ve kept them online for all these years because they show where I started and how far I’ve come since then. They also serve as a time capsule, giving younger fans a glimpse into a bygone era. With that being said, here are my top five “favorite” Millennium-inspired stories – and what to read instead of them!

Read“Throwback Thursday #13: Top Five Favorite Millennium Era Fanfics”

Summer has officially started, and things are heating up here at Dreamer’s Sanctuary! This week, I’m blogging about my favorite “hot and steamy” scenes. I put that in quotes because I don’t write many sex scenes, and the ones I do write aren’t usually very sexy compared to what you’d read in a typical romance novel or smut fic. Admittedly, sex and romance are not really my forte as a writer, but I do enjoy writing romantic subplots and include sex scenes when I feel they will contribute to character development and/or further the plot. Here are my five favorites!

Read“Throwback Thursday #12: Top Five Favorite Sex Scenes”

THE COUNTDOWN IS ON! It’s June, and that means we’re just a month away from the release of the Millennium 2.0 album and the start of the residency! I would say I can’t wait, but I refuse to wish my summer away. Love you, Boys, but I can wait!

In the meantime, the twenty-fifth anniversary celebration continues here at Dreamer’s Sanctuary!  One of the cool parts of being a BSB fan for over twenty-five years has been watching these five “boys” grow into men. They’ve graciously shared snippets of their lives with us through photos, videos, articles, and social media, giving us a glimpse at the small moments and huge milestones they’ve experienced over the past three decades. Through these windows, we’ve watched them fall in love, get married, and start families. It’s been a joy to see all five of them become dads and celebrate the birth of each Backstreet baby. Father’s Day is this Sunday in the United States, so for my first Throwback Thursday blog this month, I’m looking back on fics that feature the Boys as fathers.

Read“Throwback Thursday #11: Top Five Favorite Fatherly Moments”