March 11, 2023

I have no idea if this message will reach anyone or not. This site is totally messed up again, at least for us authors. If you're just reading on the app, you wouldn't know that everything else is just a big blank spot with headings. I'm not brave enough to try and post anything for fear it just disappears out into the void. Getting notifications seems to be hit and miss. Back when I was actually getting stats, I was always amazed that anyone came here to my profile page at all, but according to the stats, you did. So if anyone is reading this, I'm continuing to write and I hope that someday soon I can post something again. Until then, you can try to PM me if you want. I have no clue if that function is still working. I'm extremely frustrated. I hope that we can connect again someday soon. Keep your fingers crossed.

DFC

3/21/23 ETA: Still missing about 3 days of stats, but I guess that's as good as it's going to get. Still have PTSD after the collapse of BWR, so bear with me. Thanks for the hand-holding!

November 6, 2020

The issue with updates seems to have been resolved. Hopefully everyone can read the new chapter now. If it happens again, though, using the FF app seems to work even when the website doesn't. Just FYI for the future! Now that you can read it - let me know what you think of it! Thanks for your concern, and thanks as well for your patience.

August, 2018

Hello friends, dear readers, and anyone else who just happens by…

Ever since my hiatus in 2016, I’ve been wanting to have a little chat, to fill you in a bit about why I was missing for over a year. I thought about trying to fit it into an author’s note at the beginning of a story, but in the past when I did that, it always seemed that all of the comments dealt with my musings, not the story itself. So, this seemed the best way.

Let’s go back in time. November, 2016. The election. The revival. Big things, wow things, right? Not so much. Instead, I lost my country, lost my show, lost my writing mojo. A few months later, I lost my mom. Talk about some dark months. For a year, I found that I just couldn’t write. I couldn’t even read. I felt completely lost and bereft.

The main thing I want to tell you is that I haven’t watched the revival. At first, people would ask me about it, and I’d say “Oh, sure, of course I’ll watch it. You know, someday…” Yeah, that day’s never coming, folks. I know all about it, though. I read all the reviews, talked to friends who did watch it, and scrolled though pages and pages and yet more pages of comments on the boards. Everything I heard convinced me I did the right thing by ignoring it.

I also haven’t watched any of the old series since that dark November, either. Not even the Thanksgiving episode, which had become one of my family’s traditions. I haven’t read any new fanfic. It was like the only way I could cope was to completely shut the Gilmore world out. (Note to my fellow authors – if you’re wondering why I haven’t reviewed your stories, now you know. It wasn’t just you.)

Writing fanfic is a weird thing. You spend all of this time in a world you didn’t create, but yet the streets are as familiar as your own neighborhood. The characters live inside your head and have conversations, all the time. I’ve been writing these stories since 2009, and by now I’ve probably logged at least 1.5 million words about Stars Hollow. I understand that these characters are not mine, but I love them as if they were. Yes, I didn’t give birth to them, but I’ve fostered them in my heart. Every story I’ve written, every single word, was written with the same goals in mind. I wanted to make sure Lorelai and Luke had their middle, either by falling in love earlier than they did in the show, or by ‘fixing’ the things that the scripts had them do wrong. My auxiliary goal was to stop Rory from becoming a brat. Unfortunately, it appears that the revival did just the opposite. Sorry, but I’ll just skip that, if you don’t mind.

Gradually, I came out of my funk and the urge to write started to gnaw at me again. I decided that I could chance a return to my stories that took place outside of the real Gilmore universe: Star-Crossed and the “In the Hollow” series. Pretty soon some other ideas popped up, and I wrote those down, too. I’m sure I’ll keep at it until I die or am too senile to string words together at all. Just don’t expect any stories from me that have anything to do with the revival.

One of my mother’s favorite expressions was “The pendulum always swings back.” Meaning, no matter how awful things are now, how crazy the world is, eventually it swings back again. She was right. A few months after her death, I received two of the greatest joys of my life when I became a grandmother. And just to show that not all drama happens in fiction, the universe saw fit to present my family with twins! Yes, I have my own little Jake and Josh now, and, as my mother said on the night she held my firstborn, “My cup runneth over.” I’m in the market for two little blue baseball hats, so let me know if you see any, OK?

Feel free to PM me if you want to chat about anything. I’m happy to be back!

February 2014

Just as I suspected, it only took one irresistible story idea to bring me back! Thanks to all of you who sent me notes of encouragement and who read my latest effort. Hang on in there, because there's more to come, including additional Star-Crossed chapters. I may be slow with the updates as I figure out how to do this again, but since Luke and Lorelai are back to telling me stories, the least I can do to write them down. Thanks for having faith!

December, 2013

Four years ago, in December of 2009, I screwed up every bit of courage I could find and finally hit 'submit' on my first story. It was "Do Me a Favor" and I posted it at Black & White & Read, a gorgeous site that no longer exists except in memory (and in an incomplete view on the Wayback Machine.) It was a pretty heady experience to be accepted as a fellow writer by authors that I adored. I've had so much fun making up scenarios for Lorelai and Luke, Rory, and the rest of the Stars Hollow family. But you know what they say about all good things. The show's been done for almost seven years now, BWR has been gone for nearly a year, and I don't even know how long ago ABC Family stopped showing the reruns at night, denying me my daily fix of banter. Most of the people who reviewed my first story have long since moved on to something else, and it seems like maybe that's advice I need to take as well. I'm not saying I'm never going to write another Gilmore Girls story again because who knows? The perfect plot might present itself to me next week and I'll have no choice but to write it down! But for now I'm going on hiatus.

A vow I made to myself when I started was that I would always finish my stories. (Because I well-knew my tendency to procrastinate!) Star-Crossed isn't finished, but I've left them in a pretty good place. If anyone is dying to know how the story was going to play out, please PM me and I'll send you a synopsis of the remaining story.

There are two brilliant new authors I urge you to read: Eledgy and Fishbag. They are absolutely amazing, and I look forward to reading many more stories by each of them.

I can't thank all of you enough for the warm support you've continually given me and the enthusiasm you've shown for my stories. It has been very much appreciated.

October, 2011

I always wanted to be a writer. From a very early age any fresh piece of notebook paper held an irresistible pull over me. But somehow life moved on -- jobs, kids, chores -- and I forgot all about the writing dream. It wasn't until I fell in love with a TV show and suffered through its dismal end that I remembered how much I loved to escape into a world of words. I started writing stories about Gilmore Girls, trying to give Luke and Lorelai the happier ending I thought they deserved. Now I see myself sort of like Quantum Leap's Sam Beckett, trying to put right those things that once went wrong. I love Stars Hollow and all of the characters that live there and...I just want to see them happy.

Thanks for reading!