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Today concludes Chapter Two of Snowflakes In Autumn. Next week, I’ll stick to the same schedule and we’ll work our way through Chapter Three, followed by Chapter Four the week after. And then, The Big Change. In the meantime, I’ll be helping Brittany construct Trey’s fantabulous Super Mario Birthday cake, complete with marshmallow fondant and plenty of hopping rotund plumbers. I hope it turns out well, which will be...
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Here’s Chapter Two, Part Three of Snowflakes In Autumn. Tomorrow’s entry will be a little on the short side, but there was no real way to break this segment any differently to give more length to Friday’s entry. I didn’t write the novel with the idea of serializing it, so you’ll just have to bear with me on the divisions. Things will improve after I get through Chapters Three and Four in the next couple of...
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It’s time for the second part of Chapter Two, which will take us to the halfway point in the chapter. Tomorrow, I’ll be back with a regular Coquetting Tarradiddles essay, which I’ll follow up with the latter half of the second chapter of Snowflakes In Autumn on Thursday and Friday. I’ve reached a possibly permanent position concerning what I’m going to do with posting the rest of the novel, which I’ll...
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It’s recently been brought to my attention that my schedule for posting Snowflakes In Autumn might be ill-advised. At twenty-five chapters in length, posting one chapter a week will take just over two years – and that’s a mighty long time. So, I may rework the schedule yet again and try to squeeze in more chapters each week, but I worry that the ocean of text in each post will scare the more jellyheaded and...
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Today’s entry wraps up Chapter One of Snowflakes In Autumn. I apologize for the brevity of yesterday’s entry (and today’s, for that matter), but that’s how the edits worked out when I decided to spread the chapter out over five daily entries. Next week should work out a little more evenly, as I plan to interrupt the novel with a regular essay on Wednesday, allowing me to chop things up into four entries instead of...
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Time for part four of Chapter One, which concludes tomorrow. I’ve heard from a few of you through e-mail and the Facebooks, and it looks like I’m going to continue on to Chapter Two next week. I’m not sure if I’ll split it into three parts rather than five so that I can return to regular essays on Tuesday and Thursday, but I’m working it out. I might opt for four parts with an essay on Wednesday. Who knows?...
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Kristian Bland
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Occasional Geek
I'm a former Webmaster turned Journalist turned Systems Administrator. I once thought I could recreate Spider-Man's web fluid, but only ended up staining the driveway of my friend's parents when some of it spilled out and went runny. Eventually, I became a caustic tech geek, which I'm pretty sure inspired the character of Dr. Gregory House, although the bastards never credited me. Later in life, I'd go on to have a horrific experience in publishing that I don't talk about, except to talk about how I don't talk about it. Later still, I became a web editor and columnist for a Hearst newspaper, where I excelled at being Me until my entire department was unceremoniously laid off. After that, I spent about six months being pretty busy not being busy. It sucked. Then, after missing the light of my radiant glory casting its warmth upon the newsroom for long enough, the paper called me up and asked me back. So I went back. And then I left again. And here we are.
