It’s been a busy few weeks, but I’m finally back with an update on The World Will Be Waiting! Chapter 61 is up. I’ll be at Nick’s show next Saturday (yay!), so don’t expect an update then, but I’ll have more where one came from soon enough. Hope you enjoy!
Streaking into September
Nothing like waiting until the last day of the month to update again! 🙃 I apologize again for the delay. August is always a busy month for me, and besides the usual back-to-school shenanigans, I’ve been hanging on to the next chapter of The World Will Be Waiting, waiting until I got a little further into the next arc of the story and felt comfortable with it to start posting it. My drama-loving writer brain has a tendency to plan plot elements early on, get excited about them, and then take so long to actually get to the point of writing them that by the time I do, I’ve lost some of my enthusiasm for the ideas and start second-guessing myself. Some writers write scenes out of order to eliminate this problem, but I’ve never been able to do that. So I’ve been sitting on Chapter 60 for almost two months, making sure I felt committed to this particular arc before I put it out into the world. But in the meantime, I’ve still been writing every day, keeping my streak alive. 953 days as of today!
Anyway, thanks, as always, for being patient with me! Chapter 60 of The World Will Be Waiting is up!
On the midnight train to Georgia…
Yikes, I can’t believe it’s already been a month since my last update! Sorry my updates have been so spread out this summer. I got back from a family vacation a week ago and have spent the past week trying to get back on track with my writing, which has been very successful! In fact, the reason I’m updating at midnight is because I couldn’t stop writing long enough to do it earlier. I hit Day 900 of my streak earlier this month and have written over a thousand words almost every day this week. I’m three chapters ahead of the one I’m posting today, which will give me a bit of a buffer to get through back-to-school season.
The Olympic Games may have captured the world’s attention in real life, but it’s Super Bowl Sunday in Chapter 59 of The World Will Be Waiting! Kevin’s heading to Georgia to spend it with Brian in this chapter, which is meant to bridge the gap between the previous two chapters and the next few. I know there haven’t been nearly enough Backstreet Boys in the story lately, so hopefully this will help with that, too. I’ll get back to the other Boys soon, but I must admit, I’ve been having fun with my original characters in the meantime. I hope you don’t mind. This story’s about to turn into BMS 2.0 with how long it’s becoming. I haven’t decided if that’s a good thing or a bad thing… I guess it depends on how much you guys like it! I’m still enjoying writing it, and that’s what really matters most to me. It’s no fun trying to finish a story you’ve lost interest in. Your comments help keep that interest alive at times when real life gets in the way, so thanks to those of you who take the time to let me know you’re still reading! I really appreciate it!
Back in business!
If you’re reading this on the site, then that means my efforts have paid off, and Dreamer’s Sanctuary has successfully been migrated to its new server! That has been my project for the past week, transferring everything to a new web host. I’d been with my old host for twelve years, but since they kept jacking up their prices, it was time to make the switch to a new one. I’d only switched hosts once before and never with a WordPress site, so it was pretty scary at first, but I figured it out. As with any change, there may be glitches I haven’t discovered yet, so if you find any broken links, images that don’t load, or other issues while you’re browsing the site, please let me know so I can fix them! I’ve clicked around a little, and things seem to be working so far, but I haven’t checked every page.
Anyway, that’s the main reason I haven’t updated in the past couple weeks. Now that that’s taken care of, I can finally post Chapter 58 of The World Will Be Waiting! I hope you enjoy it!
A little Sim with a big story to tell!
Yup, still alive and writing! Sorry I went the whole month of May without updating. I did write every day in May; I just didn’t write much. I’m way behind on the word count goal I set for myself this year, but that’s okay because 1) my daily writing streak is still going strong, and 2) I have all summer to catch up! Just don’t let me download any more Sims expansion packs this year – that’s what killed my productivity over winter break and got me off to such a slow start! 🤦♀️
Speaking of The Sims, I know you’re probably sick of seeing me talk about my Sims world, but I have a funny story to share that is fanfic-related.