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I've been having weird issues with the points, which is why they're still not all correct. Hopefully I'll be able to reset the points and then give everyone back what they're supposed to have.

MystycalMage, mjkj, FlowerGirl, and Catalyst: would you, when you get a chance, go look at your detailed points page ("my points" under your username on the sidebar) and tell me what you see as your points total for each category (uncategorized, fairy gold, and dead leaves)? Hopefully you see the same thing as me, but I want to confirm that...

Okay, the new points system is officially in place! Please take a few minutes to read the shiny new points page--there's information there that hasn't been mentioned before.

Also, I'll be fiddling with the points over the weekend--switching points from "uncategorized" to the proper categories, which is going to involve taking points away and then adding them back. So if you look at the site and discover you have the wrong amount of points, don't be alarmed! They'll be back!

How to earn points
Categories of points
How to spend points
List of points rewards owed

How to Earn Points
You must be a registered member of the website to earn points. (If you try to register and have trouble, please email me at chatoyant.college at gmail.com--I'll get you set up.)

I'm thinking about changing the way points rewards work. Basically, the main change I'd like to make is switching it from what we have now, in which you accumulate points, to a system in which you spend points. So instead of building up lots of points and using milestones for rewards, you would use points to get rewards and then not have those points anymore. Having a lot of points wouldn't mean much except that you don't make requests.

The third of my guest poems is now available at Gabriel Gadfly's site: The Knitter.

My second guest poem, The Queen to Snow White, is now up at Gabriel Gadfly's site!

Gabriel Gadfly, a fellow weblit author, is running some guest content lately, and I sent him a few poems to use. The first one, Little Red Hood, is up now. Go over and check it out, and while you're there, read some of Gabriel's fantastic poetry! I'll post again when the other poems of mine go up.

Just a note to say that if you read Chatoyant College through the RSS feed--which I recommend, as I find it a very convenient way to keep up with all the blogs and webfiction I read--you may notice a small change. I've switched the RSS feed from showing only the titles of chapters or posts to showing the titles plus a small part of the text. This is mainly, I admit, so it would look better and fit in with the other partial-feeds at the Digital Novelists main page. If you haven't checked out that site yet, I encourage you to do so.

This bonus story is turning out to be really long, and also I don't have a lot of time to write right now! So Friday's update is the first part of the bonus story. I'll put up the second part on New Year's Day (probably won't have a lot of free time New Year's Even either). If there are more parts after that, I'll probably post them starting that Monday.

I'm planning to put up two bonus stories this week. (This blog post is as much an announcement of what to look out for as it is a kick in the butt to make sure I actually put up the stories!) One will be on Tuesday, and the other will go up in place of a regular chapter on Friday, since it's Christmas Day.