Last call to cast your votes for Round 2 of the 20th Anniversary Story Tournament! The polls will close at midnight EDT.
Part VIII of The Year Without a Pandaskunk is up, featuring my new favorite song parody I’ve written. I drafted the lyrics for this chapter back in December, so it feels good to finally get to post them four months later. The world has changed so much since then, but not Nick and Aaron!
Stay well, friends!
Have you voted for your favorite DS fics in Round 2 of the Story Tournament yet? If not, click here to cast your votes!
For this week’s Wayback Wednesday blog, we’re going back to 2017. The first half of 2017 was really productive for me, in terms of writing. After being pretty flaky the previous three years due to my master’s program, I was determined to show some discipline and get back into a more regular writing routine. I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, but I set one that year to write every weekend. Not only did I keep that resolution until Nick Plague struck me down in March, but I wrote daily for two months straight. I got back into my groove with Sick as My Secrets and finished it in June.
And then… nothing.
I spent the rest of that summer (really, the whole next year) struggling with what I like to call “WADD,” or Writer’s Attention Deficit Disorder, which is when I flit aimlessly from one project to another without being able to settle down on any one of them long enough to make any real progress. More on that in my next blog.
In the fall of 2017, I finally managed to write a short story called The Call, which is what I’ll be blogging about this week.
The polls for Round 1 of Dreamer’s Sanctuary’s 20th Anniversary Story Tournament closed late last night, leaving us with a Sweet 16!
The winning stories are moving on Round 2, which starts today and runs through Saturday.
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Enjoy the savagery in Part VII of The Year Without a Pandaskunk, now posted!
Also, don’t forget to vote in Round 1 of the Story Tournament, brought to you by quarantine boredom. You have until Sunday night to get your votes in, assuming Opinion Stage doesn’t close the polls early. Apparently I’m over the limit of views they allow for free accounts. Looks like I’ll be using a different poll service for Round 2, which will start Monday. Click on the thumbnail below to see the tournament brackets.
I wish everyone a happy and healthy Easter!
I hope everyone’s staying healthy and hanging in there!
Have you voted in the polls for Round 1 of the Dreamer’s Sanctuary 20th Anniversary Story Tournament? If not, what are you waiting for? Click here to cast your votes! I changed the set-up a bit since I originally posted this on Monday to spread the polls out across four pages instead of having all sixteen on the same page because I noticed some of them weren’t loading when they were trying to do it all at the same time. If you have any trouble getting them to load still, try refreshing the page – that has always worked for me. You don’t have to vote in every poll, either; you can pick the ones with stories you’ve read and vote for those. The polls for Round 1 will be open the rest of this week, and Round 2 will begin on Monday.
This week, we’re going back to 2016 to talk about Sick as My Secrets. About time, right? I’ve been waiting a while to get to this one! I actually started writing this story in 2013 and began posting it in 2014, but I chose to wait until this week to blog about it because it’s literally the only story I updated in 2016. Much like Broken a decade earlier, SAMS was written during a busy time of change in my life. In the almost four years it took me to write this story, I started and finished a three-year master’s degree program and bought my first home, both of which came with more responsibilities. Between taking classes and taking care of the new house on top of working full time, my writing time decreased significantly and my updates slowed down. That’s why SAMS took me so long to write and why I wasn’t writing much else (fanfic, anyway) at the time. I’m grateful I had this story to keep me going during this period because, without it, it would have been easy to walk away from fanfic for a while, and for all I know, I may not have wanted to come back. I’m glad I did!