State of the Sanctuary

State of the Sanctuary

Hello!

I realize it has been a long, long time since I’ve updated any stories on the site – over five months, which is unusually long for me – so I thought I would take some time to at least update you guys on what’s going on with me and the site.

Don’t worry; it’s nothing terrible.  Basically, it’s the same excuse I’ve been giving for the last year or so:  I’ve been BUSY!  I know that is the same lame excuse almost all fanfic writers give (if they even bother to give one) before they fall off the face of the internet, but I want to reassure my faithful readers that I’m not going anywhere.  As you may know if you’ve been following my sporadic updates over the last year or so, I am a new homeowner and a grad student.  These added responsibilities have made it really hard for me to find a balance between real life and the fanfic world.  I used to be able to work full time or go to school full time and still find time to read and write for fun, but it turns out I have a hard time doing both.  Having a house and yard that need work on the weekends, which used to be my prime writing time, has made it even harder.  That’s the bad news.

The good news is that I only have one more year to go on my master’s degree; I will be done by this time next year.  After that, I will have more time and energy on nights and weekends to write.

More good news:  Since I’m done with my classes for this summer, I have been writing!  I’m not posting any new chapters tonight, but I promise that I will have some story updates before summer’s over.  Song for the Undead is literally two chapters away from being finished, and once it is, Rose and I will start posting the rest.  I have also been holding onto some old chapters of Sick as My Secrets and have just started working on new ones, which I should be ready to start posting sometime in the next week or so.  What happened with that story is that I hit a figurative fork in the road and wasn’t sure I was committed to which way I was going with it, so I wanted to write ahead and see how it went before I posted any more, in case I decided to go back and rewrite later.  I haven’t lost interest in it and have very intention of finishing it someday (though I have no idea when that will be).

Once school starts in August, my updates will probably become pretty sporadic again, but I promise that after I’m done with my master’s, I will be BACK!  I just renewed the dreamers-sanctuary.com domain for another two years, which I would not do if I thought I was done with fanfic.  I still love it, love writing, love the Boys, and love my readers.  I’m sorry I have been so flaky this past year and hope to make it up to you all once I have my free time back.  Thanks for understanding and sicking with me!

~Julie

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