As we near the end of the month, we’re also nearing the end of the 20th Anniversary Story Tournament. Round 4 starts today, and we’re down to the Final Four: Curtain Call, Song for the Undead, A Heart That Isn’t Mine, and Unsuspecting Sunday. Which one will be the readers’ favorite? Click here to vote for yours! I’m curious to see if my prediction for which ones will make the top two comes true.
Another story complete!
The Year Without a Pandaskunk is complete! I posted Part IX and the Epilogue. Enjoy!
Since finishing this story, I have been working on the BSB/ER crossover I’ve mentioned before. I started said crossover back in 2012, and it’s always been very much a side project, something I’ve been working on between novels for almost eight years. It’s not going to be a long story, but writing it has been slow because, as you can imagine, it’s very much a medical drama and has required a lot of research… and also because every time I go back to it, I inevitably start watching ER for inspiration and get sucked into an ER marathon that takes away from my actual writing. Whoops. Anyway, I’m going to wait until the story is finished (or almost finished) to start posting it because I don’t want to leave you hanging, but I’m hoping that will happen during this quarantine.
Today is the last day to vote in Round 3 of the Story Tournament, so get your votes in before midnight ET. Round 4 starts tomorrow!
Wayback Wednesday #19: 2018
Be sure to get your votes in for Round 3 of the Story Tournament before Saturday! Personally, I thought the battle between Curtain Call and Sick as My Secrets would be a lot closer than it was last time I looked… but maybe the slash fans haven’t had their say yet.
Dreamer’s Sanctuary’s 20th anniversary is only one week away, so this is the second to the last of the Wayback Wednesday blogs I’ve been doing. For this week’s blog, we’re going back to 2018, which isn’t even really worth blogging about because it was the worst year of my life, a year in which bad things happened and I wrote next to nothing. I don’t even have a story to reflect on for 2018 because, although I worked on several over the course of the year, I literally only updated one, 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter, and I already blogged about that one. Sad panda.
2018 started off promisingly. I posted on New Year’s Day, bragging about what a productive winter break I’d had so far, how I’d started not one, but two new novels. And that was true! I started the story that would eventually become A Heart That Isn’t Mine for the second time, after scrapping the first draft I’d started the previous summer. (More on that next week.) I also started a Kevin/Nick story called My Brother’s Keeper, which I felt good enough about to share a “sneak peek” of, but not confident enough about to post “officially” with the implied commitment of continuing to update it regularly. After four years of being flaky with my updates due to being busy with my master’s classes and life in general, I was determined to be more consistent about updating my next story, so I wanted to wait until I was far enough into said story to start posting it. For the second year in a row, I made a New Year’s resolution, this time to write something every day. I’d kept the previous year’s resolution to write every weekend for longer than I thought I would, and it definitely helped me get back on track and finish Sick as My Secrets sooner than I had expected to. Surely, making another resolution would help me get going on another story, right?
Happy Anniversary, Boys!
I didn’t plan on posting today, but after reading the anniversary posts from the Backstreet Boys and various BSB bloggers, all of which brought tears to my eyes, I felt inspired to write a post of my own. Today marks the 27th anniversary of the day Brian flew to Orlando and became the fifth member of the Backstreet Boys as we know them. From that day on, their lives were forever changed. They would go on to change our lives, too; we just didn’t know it yet.
20th Anniversary Story Tournament: Round 3!
The polls for Round 2 of Dreamer’s Sanctuary’s 20th Anniversary Story Tournament closed late last night, leaving us with an Elite Eight! You can see the results of the polls here. Are you surprised by any of the eliminations?
The winning stories are moving on Round 3, which starts today and runs through Saturday.
Click here to cast your votes!
Since I won’t be posting again until Wednesday, I want to wish our five favorite Boys a very happy 27th Anniversary tomorrow! Hopefully they’ll be back together making beautiful music in person again soon!