And the winner is…

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Curtain Call!

In a come-from-behind win, congratulations to Curtain Call for being voted the top story on Dreamer’s Sanctuary in the 20th Anniversary Story Tournament.  It was very close, with only one vote separating the winner and runner-up, A Heart That Isn’t Mine, but in the end, sweet won over sadistic, as it probably should.  Thank you to everyone who voted!  It was fun for me to see readers’ preferences and watch how the tournament played out, and hopefully it helped relieve your quarantine boredom for a few minutes.

Now that the tournament is over and the twentieth anniversary has passed, I will probably take a little break from updating until I have a new story to post.  Hopefully that will be sooner rather than later!

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms in the U.S. who may be reading this!  I hope you have a wonderful day!

20th Anniversary Story Tournament: Round 5!

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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!

Wayback Wednesday #20: 2019

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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.

Read“Wayback Wednesday #20: 2019”

Round 4: The Final Four Face Off!

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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!

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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!