Throwback Thursday #16: Top Five Favorite Fanfictional Howie Roles

I’m back with the next installment of my twenty-fifth anniversary blogs, and in honor of Howie’s birthday tomorrow, I’m looking back on my five favorite fanfictional Howies! To be honest, Howie has never been one of my favorite Backstreet Boys to write about. I love him, but I also find him kind of… dare I say boring? But, over the years, I’ve learned that when I add some “flavor” to spice things up a bit, he can become an interesting character. Here are my favorite versions of Howie I’ve written.

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Throwback Thursday #15: Top Five Favorite Action Scenes

Welcome to Action August! I find action scenes to be some of the most challenging scenes to write because I have to include enough description to allow readers to visualize what’s happening in their heads without overloading them with details that slow down the fast pace. That means I can’t be too wordy, which is a challenge in itself at times for me. So when I do manage to find that perfect balance and construct a well-paced, cinematic, action-packed scene, I feel proud of myself. That’s why, this week, I’m counting down my five favorite action scenes!

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Throwback Thursday #14: Top Five Favorite Comedic Fics

With just one week left in July, we’re wrapping up the month with jokes! This week, I’m blogging about my favorite humor stories. Comedy may not the genre I’m best known for writing, but I do enjoy occasionally taking a break from the drama to write something light and funny! With that being said, I do have a rather twisted, morbid sense of humor, so even my comedies tend to be a little dark. Here are my top five favorite comedic fics!

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TWWBW Update!

Sorry I seem to be on the once-a-month story update plan, but that’s just how it’s been going lately.  This has admittedly not been my most productive summer, from a writing standpoint, although my streak is still going strong at 1,276 days in a row!  I actually had my best day of writing all summer yesterday, which is why I didn’t update on a Saturday like I usually do.  I didn’t want to tear myself away from the chapter I was working on to edit the one I’m posting today.

With that being said, Chapter 74 of The World Will Be Waiting is up!  This is a short and sweet chapter that was originally going to be a lot longer, until I ended up separating it into two chapters when the second half got way too long.  I finished 75 last night and started 76 this morning, so I’m still plugging away.  But now that July is winding down, I’m gonna get busy again in the next few weeks, so I may have to stay on the once-a-month update plan for the foreseeable future.  As always, feedback is motivating and much appreciated, so thank you to everyone who has or will let me know they’re still reading, either here or on AO3 or social media.  I hope you enjoy the new chapter!

Throwback Thursday #13: Top Five Favorite Millennium Era Fanfics

Can you believe it? Not only are we halfway through 2025 and this series of twenty-five retrospective blogs for Dreamer’s Sanctuary’s twenty-fifth anniversary, but we’re just one day away from the release of Millennium 2.0 and the start of the new residency! To commemorate the occasion, I’m throwing it way back to the Millennium era for this week’s blog. The Millennium era will always be one of my favorite BSB eras, as it’s when I went from a casual fan to a die-hard fan, attended my first concert, discovered fanfic, and eventually started writing it myself. My first stories took place during the Millennium era, too. Considering I was fourteen when I started writing fanfic, these fics are far from my best work and don’t hold a candle to my adult writing. But I’ve kept them online for all these years because they show where I started and how far I’ve come since then. They also serve as a time capsule, giving younger fans a glimpse into a bygone era. With that being said, here are my top five “favorite” Millennium-inspired stories – and what to read instead of them!

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