The cheeseman

Oh no you don't, I do!

How does one... theorize? And what is a topic?

Yep! I bruised my chin once with one of those things you use to seal wine bottles. TPBM enjoys hunting.

I do. It's so much more accurate. TPBM has watched every episode of Vikings.

Thanks for the tips! You are right to assume that some things are purposeful. The similarities to Stormlight probably standout so much because I wrote a lot of it in the past couple months while I was rereading SA. I don't use real swear words because I don't think it makes much sense to use them in a world that is not ours. Also because to do so would be heavily frowned upon by my writing group. On another note, one of the main reasons I write is because it allows me to explore the human experience. When I write, I have a certain thing that humans do/experience that I want to mirror and show in my book. With this one, and the whole Bloodstained Throne series as a whole, my main goal in relation to that and to my characters is to explore the effects of war on the human psyche. I am exploring the reasons people make war, what their views on war are, and how it effects their physical, mental, and emotional condition. That's one of the reasons I love the Stormlight Archive so much; it so realistically shows what happens to people under the stress of war. War is one of the most traumatic things a human can experience, and so much of writing is putting people, your characters, through extremely stressful situations. There is so much that goes with war; stress, trauma, exhaustion, mental numbness, it is a list that goes on and on and on. I want to show that. I want people to read my books and know, as Robert Jordan wrote in The Wheel of Time, 'There's no glory in battle. But there is honor.' War is terror. War is hell. War is a nightmare. But war can also be a path: a path to freedom, a path to justice, or a path to vengeance. There's my weekly rant about writing. Thank u for coming to my TED talk. Edit: I will eventually be posting a map, once I finish drawing and labeling it. So stay tuned for that, hoomans.

Blasting Citizen Soldier. They have some of the best songs, if you like rock.

Slow the storms down, he hasn't been found guilty yet.

I do not, there's like three that I play on a regular basis. TPBM has the new Star Wars game.

Alaska is the best, hands down. there is, however, a much higher chance of being killed by moosen than by bugs.

That's because teenagers are, often, quite nonsensical. Mostly because our brains aren't fully developed.

Wait we're trying to remember something?

It is rather annoying, isn't it? We are often times expected to act like adults, but even when we do, we are treated like children. Also all the awkwardness that accompanies the teenage years is rusting awful.

I know. The reason for that is because I am fairly certain I can wrap up the first book (planning to do four for the first arc of the story) in that amount of words, and because it allows for a smaller book. I am confident that I could write a 400k+ monstrosity like Sanderson, but Stormlight books, unless you are accustomed to reading massive tomes, are very daunting to see on a shelf. That brings me to the second reason: approachability. A book of 250,000 words would be about 500 pages, much like Joe Abercrombie's books in The First Law trilogy, none of which exceed 300,000. I want my book to be short enough that people who aren't used to enormous books are comfortable picking it up, and long enough to catch the eyes of people more used to Wheel of Time or Stormlight-sized books. However, my absolute ceiling for this first book is 300,000 words. If, by some ridiculous chance, I breach that 300,000 words ceiling, I will continue writing until I have a satisfactory ending. Then I will split it into two books. On another note, did you enjoy reading it? Is there anything you think I could do better?

It is now.

Notice, he never says he is not an Asha'man. So that he must be. A wielder not just of the One Power, but of tainted saidin.

Kings by Tribe Society. It's a great song. Listen to it.

15,697, to be exact. Chapter three will be up hopefully within two weeks.

A lot of things. Reading the last couple of pages should give you an idea.

Well, technically it's both. It's not the super-uber-duper fancy leatherbound like WoK or Mistborn, but it's still cool. Pretty sure it might be faux leather tho. I cannot. TPBM has beaten the story mode of SUPERHOT.

Well, the only support we have for the historical existence of dragons is legends. So, no, I don't believe dragons were ever real. I sure wish they were, though. TPBM has the cool leatherbound version of Tress of the Emerald Sea.

But what if there are nice and firm blueberry waffles?

That is a more accurate descriptor. Waffles - ReverseAbsPancakes. Coming soon to a grocery store near you.