After four rounds of voting, thirty stories have been eliminated from the tournament. It all comes down to the top two: Curtain Call vs. A Heart That Isn’t Mine.
Which one is worthy of being Dreamer’s Sanctuary’s number one story?
You have through Saturday to vote. The winner will be announced next Sunday!
Today is the twentieth anniversary of Dreamer’s Sanctuary! On April 29, 2000, I registered my first Geocities account and posted the first pages of my first fanfiction website. I wish I had a screenshot of what the site looked like back then, but sadly, I don’t, and the Wayback Machine doesn’t go back that far. My fifteenth anniversary April Fool’s Day layout comes close, especially the main page, which had a light blue cloud background, purple Comic Sans font (’cause Comic Sans was da bomb back then, at least among us teenyboppers! LOL), and some of the same pictures and graphics. My current layout, which I’ve had for the last few years, pays homage to the original cloud layout.
When I started this site, I had just turned 15 years old and had been writing fanfic for about four months. I only had a few stories to post. Two decades later, I just turned 35 and have over 70 stories posted online. It’s been fun blogging about some of the most memorable ones from the past twenty years over these last twenty weeks.
For my last Wayback Wednesday post, we’re looking back at last year and the story that resuscitated my writing hobby, A Heart That Isn’t Mine.
SPOILER WARNING: If you haven’t read the story, please do that before you read the rest of this blog.
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.
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!
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?