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!

A Carter Brothers Christmas… in April

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!

Wayback Wednesday #18: 2017

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.

Read“Wayback Wednesday #18: 2017”

Mocking Melissa Schuman is so much fun…

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!