Dreamer's Sanctuary

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?

Read“Wayback Wednesday #19: 2018”

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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.

Read“Wayback Wednesday #18: 2017”