Dreamer's Sanctuary

What’s this?!  A random Monday night update?  Well, it’s actually the first in a series of weekly, not-so-random Monday night updates I have planned.  That’s because, as I mentioned recently, our collaboration 00Carter is back and better than ever!  The pandemic brought our friend and original cowriter Dee back to the BSB fandom last year, and earlier this year, she, Rose, and I decided to revive 00Carter, which had been unofficially on hiatus for almost a decade.  We started working on it again over the summer and have already finished two new episodes!  We’ve also done some editing on the old episodes — not changing any plot details, just polishing up the grammar and word choice.

In honor of  the upcoming fifteenth anniversary of when 00Carter was conceived (January 2, 2007), we decided to repost one old episode each week leading up to the anniversary, when we will debut the new Episode 11: Mr. Body Beautiful.  Click here to read our blog for Episode 1: Carter… Nick Carter.  If you’ve already read the story, I hope you’ll enjoy revisiting it and refreshing your memory before we start posting new episodes.  And if you’ve never read it before, now is the perfect time to give it a try!  This is one of the most creative stories I’ve ever been a part of, and it’s been a blast reminiscing and writing it again!

I’m also still working on My Brother’s Keeper and will be back with the next chapter of that on Saturday!  Thanks for reading!

I can’t believe we have a Backstreet Boy turning 50 today.  Where has time gone?  I feel so old!  But Kevin has aged like a fine wine. Happy birthday, Kevy Kev!

I couldn’t let this day pass without posting a chapter of my Kevin story, so Chapter 25 of My Brother’s Keeper is up!  It’s from Kevin’s POV and even has sort of a birthday theme!  Enjoy!

Sorry I’m so late in the day with this update!  I just couldn’t seem to tear myself away from writing 00Carter, decorating for fall, and watching the Chucky marathon to post my chapter.  This is my favorite time of year!

Chapter 24 of My Brother’s Keeper is up, and it’s a long one, easily the length of two average-sized chapters.  My chapters have been getting long lately, which I guess helps make up for the fact that I’m only updating every other week.  It’s like you’re getting two chapters every two weeks.  Hope you enjoy!

It’s been an emotional weekend so far.  I always feel sad on September 11th, as I take some time to remember 9/11 and shed some tears.  I can’t believe it’s been twenty years.  My heart goes out to all the families who were personally affected by the terrorist attacks and their aftermath.  I will never forget that day or the days that followed.

I wish my country had united in the face of the current pandemic the way we did after 9/11.  It’s so depressing to see that despite everything we responsible people have been doing – getting vaccinated, social distancing, staying home, and wearing masks when we do have to go out – COVID-19 continues to be a problem.  I can’t help but feel angry at those who have blatantly ignored the advice of medical experts and disrespected our frontline workers by refusing to get vaccinated, wear masks, or follow the other recommended mitigations… especially when their ignorance and disregard for others affects my vacation plans.  I had been looking forward to listening to the BSB Christmas album and spending the first part of my winter break at their shows in Vegas with my friends.  It’s been over two years now since I’ve been to a BSB concert or seen any of my friends from the fandom in person, and I couldn’t wait to reunite with some of my favorite people in the world.  Like most of you, I was devastated to read the Boys’ announcement yesterday.  Even if you weren’t able to go to one of the shows, I know we were all looking forward to finally hearing that long-awaited album, and now we’ll have to wait yet another year.  I’m not upset with the Boys, as I know how hard of a decision that must have been for them to make, but I am upset with the people whose irresponsible actions have perpetuated this pandemic, thus contributing to further postponements and cancellations.  We all want life to get back to normal, but we all need to do our part and act responsibly so that it can finally happen.  If anyone reading this has been hesitant to get the vaccine, please reconsider.  The BSB Army is counting on you!

I’ll step down from my soapbox now and get to the update.  Chapter 23 of My Brother’s Keeper has been posted.  I would love to tell you it’s a light-hearted chapter that will make you laugh, but no, it’s fairly depressing too.  Fitting for this weekend, I guess.  Anyway, thanks for reading!

Chapter 22 of My Brother’s Keeper is up!  It’s a long one, so hopefully it will make up for no update last week.  I didn’t hear back from anyone regarding my update schedule, so I decided I’m just going to update every other weekend for a while until I either run out of chapters or accumulate enough to go back to weekly updates.  Writing has been slow-going lately, but now that school has started, I’m getting back into the routine of writing on weekends.

In other news, I’m not sure anyone reading this remembers or cares, but 00Carter is making a comeback!  Last updated in December 2012, that collaboration has been sitting dormant for almost a decade, waiting for my co-writers and I to resurrect it.  We finally got together about a month ago and decided to give it a shot, and we just finished our first episode in almost nine years this week!  We still have some editing we want to do before we post anything, but that means a 00Carter update is on the horizon.  Stay tuned!