A year has passed and I’ve finally finished Revelations. I’m honestly rather sad right now. I love this story and am kind of ridiculously attached to Revelations!Taylor. But I’m sure I’ll get over it eventually, right?

It took me over a year to finish this story, but I did manage to meet the NaNoWriMo goal of 50,000 words eventually, which I’m very proud of. It’s my longest story to date and I feel very good about how it went and how it ended.

Due to the nature of the story and the ending, I decided to add an Author’s Note, so please be sure to read that. It clarifies a few things some of you may be wondering about.

I’ve known all along that I wasn’t going to please everyone with this story both in its subject matter and in its ending, but I hope that everyone who has followed this story can follow the thought processes that have continually lead Taylor towards his ultimate decision.

Thank you so much to those of you who read this story and to those of you who have only recently discovered it. It is very different than my other Hanfics in that it involves some slash, and I appreciate you guys giving me the chance to do that. You all are the best.

-Nat

Well, this is just a short little update, but I have Chapter 17 of Revelations! Check back soon because I plan on updating with a new chapter of YIM and Starter in the next few days, but I just couldn’t wait to to post this. Lucky for you guys, I’m super impatient!!

Also, voting has started at the 10 in 10 Challenge Awards . I’m up for several awards, and so are the other three wonderful stories. Be sure to read all four and then vote for your favorites!!!

Thanks so much to Hayley x2, Renee C., Renee P., D, Amber, and thievesandliars for the amazing feedback since the last chapter!

There’s only one more chapter of Revelations to go and I’m only about 500 words away from meeting last years’ Nano goal! Yay for making it a year late!!! Better late than never, eh?

Please let me know what you think of this chapter. It’s a bit of an epic, but very very important. I hope you enjoy it!

-Nat

Wow! I finally was able to finish Chapter 16 of Revelations, a chapter that has been itching at the back of my brain for months. I hope that you guys like it and find it satisfying after such a long wait. Hopefully you won’t have to wait long to find out how it ends. Only two chapters to go, and I plan on having it done by the end of November. So yay for that!

Thank you so much to Renee and Jessemay for giving me feedback about the latest four chapters of Starter, the last four I wrote for the 10 in 10 challenge. I did complete the challenge and will be up for some awards at the site so make sure you read up on the story and then vote for your faves at the awards which start soon! Please let me know what you think of this story so far as feedback is always greatly appreciated!

I’m so sorry to leave you guys with such a delightful cliffhanger in You Irritate Me. Don’t worry, I plan on writing the next chapter early next week, so check back soon for that.

Thanks so much for reading, everyone. You guys are the best!

-Nat

Well, I actually made it! I bring you another mass post of Chapters 7-10 of Starter. I did complete the challenge of writing 10 chapters in 10 days, so yay! It was touch and go there for awhile, but I did it. Now I can continue Quin and Taylor’s story in addition to Kinsey and Taylor’s (YIM) and Taylor and Taylor’s (Revelations). I reread all of Revelations today and am so excited to finish Taylor’s journey. I absolutely love that story and hope to finish it by the end of November. Only a year late (teehee).

And, even though this is a bit belated THANK YOU SO MUCH to Alicia, Madeline, Renee, Renee C., Kristy, Katie, Brittney, Becca, thievesandliars, and Hayley for their amazing feedback during this at times very stressful 10 days of writing. With going out of town for the weekend and seeing Hanson in concert during the time frame, I really wasn’t sure I’d make it, but I did! Without you guys letting me know that you’re reading, I might not have had the motivation I needed to finish, so honestly, thank you so much. I hope that you all continue to check in to see what happens not only with Starter but also with You Irritate Me and Revelations. You guys are the best!

-Nat

I come today with big news! I ACTUALLY HAVE AN UPDATE OF ‘YOU IRRITATE ME’!!!!!! I’m so excited to be working on this story again. I think it might be just what I need to get the creative hanfic juices flowing again. The layout’s a bit wonky, but it does work. Please just click right in front of the word you want to access (Chapters, Soundtrack, etc.) and the page should load. I’ll try to update the layout so the buttons are visible again in the next few days. [EDIT- Layout is now fixed!] I’m also working on the next chapter of Revelations, so that will be coming soon as well.

I realized that I had posted my reasons for not finishing FFL on JSOR, but not on here, which I apologize for profusely. The decision just came at a time when I wasn’t posting here regularly. So here is what I posted there:

After MUCH thought and consideration, I have decided to not finish Fine, Fine Line. This story, and Tumbling Down as well, were quite autobiographical. At times, they were far too much so. The guy I based Taylor off of for these stories consumed me emotionally for four long years. But now, I’m past him. I’m with a wonderful guy who I’m crazy about and the old guy is far, far behind me. I know that continuing to write this story will stir up emotions I just can’t bring back up.

I feel terrible about leaving it up in the air. I had the entire story planned out, but I’ve tried to write it and it just doesn’t work any more. I made the mistake as a writer of putting too much of myself into a story and it backfired on me terribly.

I sincerely apologize to fans of this story. I wish I would have been able to finish it for you, but just can’t bring myself to write it any more.

So that’s my story and I unfortunately must stick to it for my own sanity. I so appreciate the support you all gave me with these stories and I’m sorry to leave you all hanging.

But, in happier news, I’m doing my own awards site! I’m still in the process of setting up the nomination ballots and the like, so it will be a few weeks before I get it going, but I have the site up and want to share it with all of you! The link can be found –>here<– and it’s my own little homage to the Academy Awards. I hope that everyone has fun with these as I’m super excited to be doing my own awards site!

Thank you SO MUCH to Jenny, Diana, Madeline, Toni, Maria, and Lena for leaving me love after the latest update of Revelations. Please check back soon for an update of that! You guys are amazing!

-Nat

Today I bring you a new chapter of Revelations! There are some *gasp* revelations in this chapter, so be sure to go check that out!

I also went through and cleaned up some of the pages on the site, moved some of the stories around, etc. I’ll be updating my reading list as soon as I get to make sense of what I’m planning to read and when. I actually have time to read now, so yay! I’ll also be putting up a new layout for the site later today, so come back to check that out as well!

My story for The Spark Inside is today’s story, so that will be up some time today. It’s called Echoes Of My Life, and I’ll have a page for it that I’ll put up after the TSI season is all over. Please go read it and comment on it there!

I plan on starting to work on You Irritate Me as soon as I’m finished with Revelations. I feel the need to approach/tackle one project at a time right now so I don’t get so overwhelmed. But I will write that story and am looking forward to it!

Thanks so much to Brittney, Hayley, and Madeline for leaving me love after the last update! You guys are great!

-Nat

I HAVE AN UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter 14 of Revelations has now been posted. I’m not even going to say anything else other than that, I’m back (and it’s so good to be back)!!!!

-Nat

I don’t have any chapters for you yet, but I did want to check in to let you (those of you who still bother to check this thing. If you do, you’re wonderful, by the way) know what was up with my super-extended hiatus.

At first it was writer’s block to the extreme. It wasn’t that I didn’t want to write, but I would just open my Word documents and stare at them, not knowing what to do. My own “personal relationship” with the Hanson brothers was rocky this spring to say the least. And sadly, that has had an impact on my ability to write Hanfic.

That being said, I have a real dedication to finishing both Revelations and Fine, Fine Line and will do so, I swear. But not until this summer. My first year at this job has been infinitely more draining and time-consuming than I had ever imagined. Just ask Becca. I can hardly even stay up until 10 to have a decent conversation, let alone write regularly and effectively.

So, I will be back and those two stories will get finished. I hope that some of you are patient enough to wait it out with me, because I have thoroughly enjoyed your feedback and support throughout the last year or so.

Natalie

I really don’t know what to say. I never thought that a time would come when I would actually do this, but I have to. I don’t like being unreliable, making you all wait far too long for updates. I don’t even have a good excuse. Nothing in my life has really changed. I’m not more busy or more stressed, I’m just feeling a lack of inspiration of late. I thought that the Winter Slump would help, but it did for a week, but I just keep opening Word documents and staring at them blankly. Words just haven’t been coming easy to me in the projects I’ve been working on. This isn’t goodbye for forever. I have every intention of finishing all three of the stories that I’m currently writing. But, I do have to take a break. I want to take my time, get some chapters bulked up so I don’t feel pressured to finish a chapter Sunday morning so I can post it Sunday night. What once felt liberating and freeing currently feels constricting. I have full hope that my inspiration and enthusiasm will return, but for now, I just need to step back before I get burnt out for good. I hope that everyone understands and that you’ll all come back when I return with regular updates.

I do have a chapter of Revelations that I’m posting today, so those of you who’ve been reading it, Chapter 13 is now up. It’s pretty intense, but some good things get resolved, so I hope you enjoy it. And, thank you so much to those of you who signed the guestbook for the last update. I really appreciate it so much.

For now,
Nat

I come bearing three brand  new chapters today! Chapter 12 of Revelations has now been posted, as has Chapter 8 of Fine, Fine Line. Some pretty big stuff happens in both of these chapters, so be prepared!

Now, I know that I said I wasn’t planning on writing You Irritate Me for quite awhile, but an opportunity to start it has presented itself. Over at the JSOR boards, I brought up how everyone seemed to be in somewhat of a winter writing slump, and one of the users suggested something called “Fix the Winter Slump!” where those of us who are participating are giving each other private feedback on the story we’ve chosen to work on. I could have kept this story quiet until this little challenge was over, but decided to post what I’m working on as a sort of preview. Based on the feedback I get, I might be doing some rewriting, but please go take a look at it. I’m not planning on changing the plot, so let me know what you think of what’s up so far. I had an absolute BLAST making the new layout for it (with a little help from Brittney lol) and I’m really excited to write this story.

Thank you so much to Brittney for signing the guestbook after the last update!

-Nat