As of 1/1/16:

And time is still getting away from me!

Nonetheless, there have been some updates. :-)

Plus a new story... which you might not like if you've been waiting a long while for my old ones, but my muses don't really listen to reason. Sorry.

OK. So the stories I took down on 11/11/11 are still down. I've worked on some of them a bit, but just in case anyone is looking for them, I'll leave the list here.

1. Chosen Destiny- a Sailor Moon/Lord of the Rings fic that never really got started and that only a few people expressed an interest in. Unless something pulls me back to the Sailor Moon-verse, I probably won’t repost it.
2. Fate & Destiny- An Immortals (Tamora Pierce)/Lord of the Rings fic, that also hung around for a while. But I could never really get it going.
3. Mage-A Harry Potter/Sailor Moon fanfic that was supposed to be the prequel for another ongoing story of mine: Lady Serenity. Honestly, I found it enjoyable, but it, too, requires revision if I ever intend to post it again. And first I have to find some interest in the Lily/James Potter romance angle again, before I could really pull it off. I’m not sure why, but I mostly only read HP fan fics that focus on Harry now.
4. Midae-A Harry Potter/X-Men crossover, in which Rogue is a witch. Never got past the first chapter. If anyone’s interested in adopting it, they could take it pretty much anywhere.
5. Reginna Flamma-A Song of the Lioness (Tamora Pierce) AU, that made it its short third chapter, but never really past that. I had plenty of ideas for it, but if I do get around to posting them eventually, it’ll be in a heavily revised story.
6. True Chosen- Probably the most popular of the fan fics I removed: a Star Wars-Jedi Apprentice fan fic that centered around the idea that Obi-Wan was actually the Chosen One. I got stuck in the Melidaa/Daan issue, and eventually lost interest in the fandom. If inspiration strikes, I might start posting this again some day, but it’d require some pretty heavy revising, since I don’t really care for my writing from junior high and high school.

No one has asked to adopt any of these stories yet, though some have requested that I send them a copy of the old ones via email, which I'm happy to do. I'm still open to either requests, so feel free to PM me! (But please don't be offended if I don't get back to you too quickly! ...Or at all quickly. I get a lot of emails and have a limited amount of time to check them regularly, so I'm always a bit behind even when I'm not working insane hours.)

To anyone who's still waiting to see any of the above updated, I am still sincerely sorry.

As for those that are left? Hopefully I’ll get around to updating—and finishing—all of them. I enjoy writing and reading fan fiction, but neither provides any sort of income. So while I hope to finish everything, I can’t promise I’ll devote exorbitant amounts of time into doing so.

Constructive criticism and even just encouraging reviews are really my best friend in that regard. Sometimes they’re the only thing that brings me back to a fan fic that had otherwise left my head entirely, and may remain floating outside of it for quite a while on its own. Of the fan fics currently posted, I intended to finish them all eventually. ‘Eventually’ being the hated key word.

Bye for now!

Jess S

PS: Also, I apologize in advance if you try to contact me by PM - I have been pretty bad about checking my in-boxes lately, so it may be a while before I get back to you. Not because I'm intentionally ignoring you, but because it really does take me that long to remember to check even my emails sometimes, let alone my account. So, again, sorry! And I'll try to response soon. (If you're reading a fic I've posted a bit more recently, I've been a bit better about checking comments on AO3 - I'm posting a few stories more regularly there, with the chapters that are Works-in-Progress...