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!
