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22 Dec 2011 by in Christopher Chartrand | 2 comments

Dear Santa

Dear Santa,

How are you? I am fine. I hope you have had a very good year getting ready for Christmas. I have had a good year too. Please say hello to your reindeer and the elves for me. I have been pretty good this year, except for my sister, who I don’t like very much except I do this month. I didn’t fight with her because I don’t want any coal in my stocking.

This year for Christmas I would like a few more stories published if that’s okay. Also, please let me try a few new writing techniques. For instance I’m interested in trying the “Snowflake Method”. I thought because it is Christmas and there is lots of snow it would be a good time to try it.

Daddy says the Snowflake method makes sense to him because even the biggest things are built one small step at a time. I don’t quite know what he means but he is big and knows a lot of things. Like this one time he knew all the answers to all the Jeopardy questions except Mom said he Tivoed it and memorized the answers. I don’t think he did. This other time, he knew it was me who drew pictures of naked boobies, so he is pretty smart.

Another thing I would like for Christmas is to do better with my social networking. I always feel guilty because I don’t connect to my writing friends as much as I want to and it seems like everyone else is always better connected than I am. I miss my friends online.

Well, I know you are busy getting ready so I’ll leave you alone. I will leave you some milk and some cookies. Do you like chocolate chip? I do too. I will leave some carrots for the reindeer and some Skittles for the elves. I think that is how they sound running around your workshop. Skittle-skittle-skittle, all over the place.

Tell Mrs. Claus I said hey-hey-hey. She’ll get it.

Your friend for ever and ever
Chris

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Christopher is drawn to the western genre but has been known to throw his cowboys into fights with robots, vampires, and the ambiguities of purgatory. He's even kicked one or two out an airlock. Chris lives in Addison Maine with his high school sweetheart, three daughters, four horses, two goats, one lazy dog and sometimes a cat. You can read some of his fiction by visiting www.chrischartrand.com.

2 Responses to “Dear Santa”

  1. Benjamin Solah says:
    Dec 22, 2011 at 2:32 am

    I love the Snowflake technique, and helps me to keep the story focussed around a central theme or goal for my characters.

    Hope you have a good holiday with lots of writing. If you hang out on Twitter, I’ll be writing too and we can push each other.

  2. Annie says:
    Dec 22, 2011 at 10:35 pm

    Chris, I can’t wait to see what is left in your stocking on Sunday – I’ve asked for a bottle of inspiration and an extra hour a day – thats not too greedy is it? I’d be happy to give you some of either if you get some shine cool new writing techniques I don’t have.( most of them)

    big cyber hugs to ya – I know you are around and still feel ‘connected’!

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