Wayback Wednesday #5: 2004

This week’s Wayback Wednesday post takes us back to 2004 for the second part of last week’s blog on Broken. It’s a good thing I broke this into two parts because I knew it would be long. This story is still “my baby,” and I have a lot to say about it!

Broken is the story that made me the writer I am today. It’s the story that taught me the most about writing and helped me develop my style. You can actually see that development occur over the course of the story, which took me just over a year to write. But wow, what a year that was!

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It’s a… pandaskunk!

Well, I survived my first week back at work and am currently enjoying a very lazy, snowy weekend.  I haven’t written a damn thing since last weekend because I got sucked into reading Broken as I was working on my Wayback Wednesday post, and so I’ve spent the past few days living in 2003.  I haven’t attempted to read Broken or its sequel since I wrote Curtain Call because I thought I would be disappointed, but you know what?  At the risk of sounding arrogant, I am super proud of the eighteen-year-old who wrote that story!  It is delightfully dated and cringe-worthy in a few parts, but overall, it still holds up.  Next I’m gonna try to make it through By My Side, which I’ve never actually read beyond proofreading chapters before I posted them.  I’ll be blogging about that one in a couple weeks!

In the meantime, I finished Part IV of The Year Without a Pandaskunk last weekend, so I’m posting that tonight.  Hopefully I’ll finish Part V by next weekend so I can update again then.  Because I am a stickler for details even in a stupid fantasy story like this, I googled photos and watched several videos of pandas giving birth to write the first scene of this chapter.  Spoiler alert:  Newborn pandas look nothing like pandas and are not particularly cute.  Newborn skunks, on the other hand, are adorable!

You’re welcome.

Wayback Wednesday #4: 2003

For this week’s Wayback Wednesday post, we’re going back to 2003, the year I wrote a “fan favorite” and one of my personal favorites as well… Broken!

We’re now up to the era in which I started writing novels that took longer than a year to write, meaning I also wrote fewer stories per year, so this blog will actually be a two-parter. In Part 1, I’ll talk about the origins of Broken. Part 2 will be more about the impact of Broken.

I should also warn you that the reason I’ve been hiding the rest of these blogs under a “Continue reading” link is not just because they’re long, but because they do contain spoilers for the stories. Keep that in mind for the ones you haven’t read. If you plan on reading one in the future and don’t want anything spoiled, don’t click. On the other hand, if you’ve always scrolled past a particular story because you weren’t sure if it was something you’d want to read or not, you can click and read the “Straightforward synopsis.” I purposely write pretty vague synopses for my stories so as not to give too much away about the plot, but these versions are meant to get right to the point of what the story’s really about.

Case in point…

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Christmas With the Carters

I’m getting back to my weekend update routine, as I have to go back to work next week.  Part III of The Year Without a Pandaskunk has been posted.  It’s Christmas with the Carters, y’all!

I also finally got around to converting A Heart That Isn’t Mine into ebook format, for those who like having that option to read on their devices.  It’s available to download in three different formats on the eFics page.  The titles on this page are listed alphabetically, but I realized as I was adding it, my stories inadvertently ended up perfectly categorized by topic, too.  A quick scroll through the list reveals I’ve written exactly four types of novel in the past seventeen years:  1) Nick cancer romance (x3), 2) psychological thriller disguised as medical drama about heart disease (x2), 3) AIDS slash, and 4) post-apocalyptic zombie epic.  Maybe I’ll branch out a bit more in this decade, LOL.  I probably won’t write any more stories about cancer or heart transplants – but hey, never say never!

Wayback Wednesday #3: 2002

Happy New Year! I can’t believe it’s 2020! Crazy!

As we enter a new decade, the twentieth anniversary of Dreamer’s Sanctuary feels even closer.  For this week’s Wayback Wednesday post, I’m going to rearrange the digits in the new year and take you back to 2002 to my beloved soap opera of a collaboration, Code Blue.

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