So the NFL Draft is in a few days. The Texans have the first pick, and they've announced that they absolutely have decided who they'll be taking. This leaves the team with the second pick, my Rams, in an interesting position.
There's a lot of speculating going on about this pick. It's basically down to two options...Draft Johnny Manziel/Jadaveon Clowney first or trade the pick away for Johnny Manziel, if he's still around, or Blake Bortles.
Personally, I think they'll be taking Johnny first. They need a quarterback. He's homegrown. He'll sell tickets. This leaves the Rams to take Clowney and make their defensive line even more terrifying than it already is.
Friday
Wednesday
So...Mr. Sterling.
The owner of the Clippers is a racist bigot. I'm just going to get that out there. He won't be an owner much longer, if NBA Commish, Adam Silver, gets his way. There are a lot of people out there saying that Sterling doesn't deserve everything that he got.
Lifetime NBA ban.
$2.5 million fine.
Forced to sell his franchise.
I'm here to tell you that those people are wrong. Sterling deserves all of this and more. There is no place in basketball or any professional sport for anyone who thinks similarly to Sterling or to spout that hateful rhetoric.
Lifetime NBA ban.
$2.5 million fine.
Forced to sell his franchise.
I'm here to tell you that those people are wrong. Sterling deserves all of this and more. There is no place in basketball or any professional sport for anyone who thinks similarly to Sterling or to spout that hateful rhetoric.
Weeks Later
It's been a few weeks since I last talked about my book. And by a few weeks, I mean most of the semester. I've done a pretty poor job of keeping up on this blog. Anyway, here's the update: I hit 90,000 words today, meaning I'm nine-tenths of the way finished with the first draft.
After this draft is over, I send it off to be edited and then I take those edits and make changes. Maybe by then it'll be good enough to publish. We'll see. I've started looking through agentquery.com recently. Hopefully something will come out of this.
Keep you fingers crossed!
After this draft is over, I send it off to be edited and then I take those edits and make changes. Maybe by then it'll be good enough to publish. We'll see. I've started looking through agentquery.com recently. Hopefully something will come out of this.
Keep you fingers crossed!
Review: The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Wow. Where to start? I've been a fan of Sanderson for a while now, so I'm going to have to put biases aside to do this review. I love his Mistborn Trilogy and Steelheart was a great read. This is a whole other beast, though.
Sanderson has said in many interviews that he considers The Stormlight Archive (The ten-book series that The Way of Kings kicks off) his magnum-opus. His great work. He's been working on this story since he was in high school.
It shows.
Again, wow. The world that he created, called Roshar, is insanely imaginative. Just think of the ocean floor, minus all of the water. Unfortunately for the inhabitants, giant Hurricanes sweep across the landscape every few days. The ways that the plants and wildlife have adapted to these storms add so much depth to the book. It's amazing.
The story follows four major characters:
1. Szeth: A magic-wielding assassin. That's about all we know about him. He hates killing, but does it anyway. I love his sections.
2. Shallan: A studious girl with a dark secret, who's out to steal from one of the most powerful women in the kingdom. She's my least favorite of the four characters. Something about her just doesn't do it for me.
3. Dalinar: An aging general who many feel is losing his mind. He really picks up in the final third of the novel. I loved him by the end.
4. Kalladin: A surgeon turned soldier turned slave turned soldier. His character arc is one of the best I've ever read. Period. Kalladin rocketed himself into the upper echelon of my favorite fantasy characters of all time.
All in all, I give the story a 9 out of 10. Seriously, this book is great. As far as I'm concerned, Shallan's arc is the only downfall to the otherwise phenomenal story. There are nine more books to be released though, so hopefully she'll grow on me in the future.
Sanderson has said in many interviews that he considers The Stormlight Archive (The ten-book series that The Way of Kings kicks off) his magnum-opus. His great work. He's been working on this story since he was in high school.
It shows.
Again, wow. The world that he created, called Roshar, is insanely imaginative. Just think of the ocean floor, minus all of the water. Unfortunately for the inhabitants, giant Hurricanes sweep across the landscape every few days. The ways that the plants and wildlife have adapted to these storms add so much depth to the book. It's amazing.
The story follows four major characters:
1. Szeth: A magic-wielding assassin. That's about all we know about him. He hates killing, but does it anyway. I love his sections.
2. Shallan: A studious girl with a dark secret, who's out to steal from one of the most powerful women in the kingdom. She's my least favorite of the four characters. Something about her just doesn't do it for me.
3. Dalinar: An aging general who many feel is losing his mind. He really picks up in the final third of the novel. I loved him by the end.
4. Kalladin: A surgeon turned soldier turned slave turned soldier. His character arc is one of the best I've ever read. Period. Kalladin rocketed himself into the upper echelon of my favorite fantasy characters of all time.
All in all, I give the story a 9 out of 10. Seriously, this book is great. As far as I'm concerned, Shallan's arc is the only downfall to the otherwise phenomenal story. There are nine more books to be released though, so hopefully she'll grow on me in the future.
Gorilla
The name of this post is only Gorilla because that's the name of the song on my Spotify right now, and I'm too lazy to be more creative than that.
Mostly, I just wanted to talk about how my book is going. For those of you that don't know, this is a fantasy novel that I'm working on. I'm not sure what sub-genre it would be classified under. Nerdy stuff, right? Oh well, you don't have to like it. That's why I'm talking about it here. Because I do. Really, I wish there was a silly font. Because I really do care if people like it or not. I'd like to sell this thing eventually.
I have about 70,000 words written for it right now. That's just about 145 single-spaced pages in word. Size 12, Times New Roman, standard stuff. It's a lot of writing and I'm pretty proud of what I've got so far. There's a sample chapter on this blog somewhere. If you do some digging, I'm sure you can find it. You're an intelligent human being. Besides, it isn't like there's a whole bunch of posts here. What is this? Number seven? Only one of them is a chapter of a novel.
Anywho, I'm shooting for about 100,000 words before I start editing it. That's almost the exact same length as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, for reference.
I'll start posting some more samples of my writing here, as well. I'd like to get some input into what anyone who reads this might think of it. Thanks for reading this mostly pointless post!
-Chad
Mostly, I just wanted to talk about how my book is going. For those of you that don't know, this is a fantasy novel that I'm working on. I'm not sure what sub-genre it would be classified under. Nerdy stuff, right? Oh well, you don't have to like it. That's why I'm talking about it here. Because I do. Really, I wish there was a silly font. Because I really do care if people like it or not. I'd like to sell this thing eventually.
I have about 70,000 words written for it right now. That's just about 145 single-spaced pages in word. Size 12, Times New Roman, standard stuff. It's a lot of writing and I'm pretty proud of what I've got so far. There's a sample chapter on this blog somewhere. If you do some digging, I'm sure you can find it. You're an intelligent human being. Besides, it isn't like there's a whole bunch of posts here. What is this? Number seven? Only one of them is a chapter of a novel.
Anywho, I'm shooting for about 100,000 words before I start editing it. That's almost the exact same length as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, for reference.
I'll start posting some more samples of my writing here, as well. I'd like to get some input into what anyone who reads this might think of it. Thanks for reading this mostly pointless post!
-Chad
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