Wayback Wednesday #7: 2006

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Happy birthday, Nick! Technically it’s still Tuesday in my time zone, but I’m posting my Wayback Wednesday a little early so I can wish our beloved youngest Backstreet Boy a happy fortieth. Now that all five of our Boys are in their forties, I guess we’re officially old! Oh well… at the rate I’m going, I’ll happily keep writing fanfic about them in my retirement.

Speaking of writing, I’m sorry for not updating on Saturday. After spending the past few weekends basically hibernating because of bad weather, I actually had plans this weekend and didn’t get any writing done, so the next part of The Year Without a Pandaskunk isn’t finished yet. I’ve actually been doing a lot more reading than writing the last couple of weeks, trying to get through By My Side for the sake of this post. This week’s Wayback Wednesday will be the second part of my blog on BMS.

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Wayback Wednesday #6: 2005

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For this week’s (and next week’s) Wayback Wednesday post, I’ll be blogging about the sequel to Broken, By My Side. I started this story in March 2004 and finished it in January 2008. In between, I wrote no other solo stories except for Footprints, which is a collection of short stories that accompanies Broken and By My Side (BMS). Besides a couple of collaborations I contributed to in that time frame, my fanfic life pretty much revolved around Nick and Claire for five whole years, and I have no regrets.

I have never gone back and read BMS all the way through since finishing it, but I started to do so last week and am halfway through, so this post will focus mostly on the first half of the story, and I’ll write more about the second half in the next week’s blog.

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“I’ve got a bad feeling about this…”

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Part V of The Year Without a Pandaskunk has been posted, and with that I’m officially caught up to myself.  This is all I have written.  Hopefully I’ll be able to write Part VI this weekend so I have something to post next weekend.  It may not matter because I don’t think many of you are reading this, but that’s okay.  I’m writing this for my own amusement.  After my last story, it’s nice to write something relatively light-hearted and silly for a change.  I’ll be ready for some more drama when this one is done.

For anyone who is actually reading this, I hope you enjoy the update!

Wayback Wednesday #5: 2004

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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!

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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.