Category: Updates

Tomorrow, April 29, is Dreamer’s Sanctuary’s 19th birthday!  I’m sure I say this every year, or at least think it, but I can’t believe I’ve been at this for so long!  Then again, I also can’t believe the Backstreet Boys celebrated their 26th anniversary last weekend and are still going strong!  I feel like, at this point, as long as they keep performing and making music, I’ll probably keep writing stories about them.  It’s good to have a hobby, even if it’s a weird one, right?  Remind me of that in another 19 years, if I’m still writing Backstreet Boys fanfiction as a 53-year-old woman.  (God help me.)

Speaking of weird, Chapter 12 of A Heart That Isn’t Mine is up!  Enjoy!

Sorry for the late update, but it’s been a busy weekend!  I celebrated Odin’s third birthday at the BSB concert in Vegas on Friday, the Boys’ 26th anniversary on Saturday, and Easter on Sunday.  Between traveling, sleeping, and family fun, I didn’t get around to updating, but never fear… a new chapter is here!

Chapter 11 of A Heart That Isn’t Mine is up, beginning Part II of the story.  One advantage of waiting so long to start posting this thing is that I have a pretty solid outline, and my plan is to divide the story into four ten-chapter parts.  We’ll see if I can actually stick to that because somehow my stories always seem to end up longer than expected, but so far so good.  I’m working on Chapter 20 right now, which means I should be almost halfway done with this one!  Thank you so much to those of you who have been reading and commenting!  Your kind words are so encouraging and reassuring to me.  Enjoy the new chapter!

Happy spring break to me!  I’m heading to Vegas on Thursday to see our Boys one last time before the residency ends.  It’ll be a struggle to keep my writing streak (78 days!) alive while I’m there, but I will try, even if it just means opening up the story and adding a sentence or so.  Some days that’s just what you have to do.

Anyway, Chapter 10 of A Heart That Isn’t Mine is up!

Sorry again for missing my weekly update last Saturday.  I actually did that intentionally to set up for my annual April Fool’s prank on Monday.  Thank you to the one person who acknowledged it.  (Yay Jemma!)  Anyway, I’m “off the wagon” and back to writing my angsty medical drama!  Chapter 9 of A Heart That Isn’t Mine is up – a day early, even!  Enjoy.

I have a confession to make. As you may have noticed, I missed my weekly update on Saturday. I’m sorry about that. I’ve been having a crisis of confidence with my new novel, A Heart That Isn’t Mine. In spite of forcing myself to write every day, I’ve been struggling with this for awhile now, which is why I was so hesitant to post this story in the first place. I don’t know if I’m losing my touch or just growing a conscience, but I am having a tough time with all the Nick torture in this one. “But Julie, you’ve been torturing Backstreet Boys in your stories for nineteen years,” you might be saying – and you would be right. I have, and it’s never really bothered me before, but lately, all this drama has been giving me quite a guilt trip. So I’ve decided to make some changes and turn over a new leaf when it comes to writing.

I have sought help to overcome my unhealthy addiction to medical drama and angst by joining an organization called Angstaholics Anonymous. It’s a twelve step program that I’ve been following. I’m on Step 8, which is to make a list of people I’ve harmed and be willing to make amends to those people. I found it therapeutic to compile the following list of ways in which I have harmed the Boys in my fanfiction. My hope is that acknowledging and apologizing for these grievous acts will help me on my road to recovery.

(SPOILER ALERT: The list below gives away plot details from many of my stories. Read at your own risk.)

Read“I’m Julie, and I’m an angstaholic…”