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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.

Read“Wayback Wednesday #6: 2005”

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!

Read“Wayback Wednesday #5: 2004”

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…

Read“Wayback Wednesday #4: 2003”

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.

Read“Wayback Wednesday #3: 2002”

Merry Christmas!  I want to wish everyone a happy holiday, full of flying pandaskunks, rocket ships, and random fun.

In continuing with my weekly series of retrospective posts leading up to the site’s twentieth anniversary in April, Part 2 takes us back to 2001, to a light-hearted, fluffy little romance I wrote called Beside the Ocean.  Just kidding about the “light-hearted, fluffy” part.  In true Julie fashion, this is a love story about death.

Read“Wayback Wednesday #2: 2001”