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Kjelli Blaik
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Ask me about living in a haunted house. https://kjelliblaik.com/
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For 4 decades, I’ve been a mostly pseudonymous writer of 100s of dark character-driven songs. Last 10 years been publishing open source research on semantic data. Now channeling a love of language into horror novels inspired by the Patapsco Valley, where I’ve lived in a haunted house for 23 years.
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White Christmas was a harbinger of climate change.
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
What is the best movie theater candy and why is Milk Duds the obvious correct answer?
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Somehow 85,000 words has turned into 115,000 words. I swear, I had nothing to do with it. #editing
November 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If I'm gauging it correctly, I've got 10 days of editing left.
November 30, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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I am going to run heedlessly into the arms of optimism and declare this satire.
November 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Editing.
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Ok. Epilogue is in the bag. Now I go back to page one and start a line-by-line edit.
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Time to write an epilogue.
November 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The story proper is finished — 83,000 words and now I need to write the epilogue and start the first big edit.
November 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Got a handful of Bandcamp codes left for the new album. And so, I share them here with you.

kjelliblaik.bandcamp.com/album/return...

Codes
kjelliblaik.bandcamp.com/yum
xjly-kzs8
j9sz-6zh2
624n-k6qc
nxpx-666w
le9h-kkz4
483s-gkkm
cnxe-b9z6
eweg-w9kk
8h6n-ct69
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Returning to the Fork in the Road, by Kjelli Blaik
10 track album
kjelliblaik.bandcamp.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I don’t think I trust writers who know how their books end.
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I am at the point in writing this story that I’m walking around asking myself questions like: what questions would you have for a mummified dog?
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Pretty sure that everybody who says they've *seen* a ghost, haven't actually seen a ghost. But I'm also pretty sure anyone who *thinks* they've seen a ghost have probably seen a ghost.
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Considering options.
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Boy, is it hard to kill dead things. #horrorwriting
November 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
For 4 decades, I’ve been a mostly pseudonymous writer of 100s of dark character-driven songs. Last 10 years been publishing open source research on semantic data. Now channeling a love of language into horror novels inspired by the Patapsco Valley, where I’ve lived in a haunted house for 23 years.
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
80,000 words in and I just figured it out how the story should end. I guess that’s better than not figuring out how it should end.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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egret extravaganza
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I’m up to just over 70,000 words. Four chapters left to write in Part Two — at least according to my plan.

Would love to finish this up by next weekend.
November 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I’m getting used to writing dialogue delivered by dead people.

#horrorsky
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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morning xo
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Managed to get a full day of writing in, despite errands. Taking a break to go to the grocery store was a good thing — you can pick up a lot of descriptive material about human nature while getting your shopping done.
November 10, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Won’t stop working on this dream sequence until everything outside the dream sequence feels like a dream sequence.
November 9, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Songwriting Tip: Treat the traditional as untraditional, and vice-versa.

youtu.be/ziktdx46wuo?...
Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
YouTube video by Release - Topic
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November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Dreams last night again about the characters from the book-in-progress.

Years ago when I was intensively studying German for school, I would often have these vivid dreams where I would be reading long passages of German — despite not understanding.

These dreams about the characters are similar.
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM