I went through a period of having problems with livejournal too.
I finally went and registered and set up a lj for myself, and added Louisev to my friends listings and her new chapters come up on my friends pages and I can read them from my site, which was really handy for a time there, not even the links from davecullen or the other forums would get me to her livejournal, till I did my own.
but now I can get back to hers without problems, but it took over 2 weeks of never even trying to make it start working again.
the email/word thing is a good thing too!!